Caitlin Smith is a singer sublime, celebrated vocal coach and an underrated songwriter. GARY STEEL quizzes her in the great Witchdoctor Q&A.
Interviews
Music and movie related interviews
The Dalai Lama Makes An Album
The Dalai Lama has made his first album at the age of 85 with the help of a couple of enthusiastic New Zealanders. GARY STEEL put them through the great Witchdoctor Q&A.
Come On Feel The Noise
RICHARD BETTS speaks with award-winning NZ composer Sarah Ballard who meditates her music into being.
Tiny Ruins: The Lost Interview
In the latest instalment of Witchdoctor’s UNEXPURGATED series, we find RICHARD BETTS deep in conversation with Tiny Ruins singer/player Hollie Fullbrook.
Happy 87th, Willie Nelson!
GARY STEEL celebrates Willie Nelson’s 87th birthday by reaching back to an interview he conducted with the legend in 1981.
Shona Laing – The Monster Witchdoctor Q&A
To honour Shona Laing winning the IMNZ Classic Record award for her album South, GARY STEEL digs up his complete and unexpurgated 1987 interview with the NZ singer-songwriter.
Bill Rieflin’s Ministry Of Sound
Sometime in the early 1990s GARY STEEL picked up the phone expecting to chat to Ministry’s Paul Barker, and found himself talking to drummer Bill Rieflin instead. As a tribute to Rieflin, who died this week, for the first time we print the transcript of that conversation.
Interviews From Hell: Bob Geldof
GARY STEEL is celebrating 40 years of writing about music. In a life crammed with interviews, there are bound to have been a few that didn’t quite go as planned.