04/07/2023

Ex-Pat Files: Paddy Echo

After brief stints in the UK and New York, former Tāmaki Makaurau native Paddy Leishman, aka Paddy Echo, is now based in ...

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17/01/2023

Ex-Pat Files: Blue Ruin

Originating as an Auckland band back in 2015, Blue Ruin have since expanded both membership and horizons to tour throughout ...

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14/06/2022

Ex-Pat Files: Ellery Daines

Multi-instrumentalist, rock songwriter, and musician Ellery Daines left Auckland in 2018 to follow his then-girlfriend (now-wife) ...

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09/02/2022

Ex-Pat Files: Baynk

Kiwi-born electronic/dance producer Baynk has been playing away from these shores for more than five years, cutting his own ...

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29/01/2021

Ex-Pat Files: Opiuo

Oscar Davey-Wraight grew up in Ngatimoti near Motueka – neither a metropolis nor musical hotbed. These days though you’ll ...

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17/01/2020

Ex-Pat Files: Lemon Tree Music

As strong a year as 2019 may have been for various Kiwi acts around the globe, their achievements have been gazumped by the ...

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26/07/2019

Ex-Pat Files: Oliver Emmitt

Oliver Emmitt says it was on a whim that he first decided to try living in Amsterdam back in May 2011. The versatile trombone ...

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12/01/2018

Ex-Pat Files: Jesse Sheehan

He had already won the 2009 SFRQ solo, joined The Electric Confectionaires, played overseas with both Neil Finn and Dave ...

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24/03/2017

Ex-Pat Files: Great Danes

Chester Travis is one of those driven, uber onto it people that started playing music and promoting shows as under age kid, ...

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