It’s still NZ Music Month so GARY STEEL continues the excavation of his mouldering story scrapbook. Today’s travesty: Grammar Boys.
Tag: NZ music
The Gordons: Free birds with massive tweet
To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL excavates a 1983 interview – 40 years ago! – with legendary noisemakers The Gordons.
Forty years ago – Philbo keeps a low profile
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL reaches far back into his archives for two pieces he wrote on musician Phil Bowering.
Dreamscapes echoing to infinity
GARY STEEL falls in love with a surprising album of evocative dreamscapes from a musician famed for his more rootsy work in The Bads.
Margaret Urlich – 1989-style
As our wee tribute to Margaret Urlich (24 January 1965 – 22 August 2022) GARY STEEL revisits a piece he wrote around the release of her debut album.
Lea Maalfrid’s This Love – a master class in singer-songwriting
One of NZ’s most distinguished songwriters finally gets round to recording a career-spanning overview, and GARY STEEL is well impressed.
Live shows from long ago… Wolfgang/Coup D’Etat
GARY STEEL’s 1980 review of a gig by the Red Mole theatre troupe splinter band that was soon to become the hitmaking Coup D’Etat.
The best NZ album you never heard in your life – Spacesuit (1997)
In this occasional series, GARY STEEL pays tribute to lesser-known records that really rock. Today it’s Spacesuit’s turn.