14/02/2019
Earlier this year I was in Los Angeles and caught up with the amazing guitarist Carl Verheyen (pronounced Ver-high-in) at ...
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A singer/songwriter usually begins his or her career performing solo, accompanying themselves on piano or guitar, and eventually ...
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In the latest incarnation of A Star Is Born, we are presented with the tropes of self-destructive, addicted and tortured ...
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The previous Building Blocks column was titled Self-Manage or Bust! In it, I pointed out that any professional musician’s ...
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Nostalgia, Semiotics, and Drax Project: Nostalgia’s not what it used to be – perhaps an overly theatrical beginning to ...
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Have you ever wondered how someone with a big singing voice and a performance schedue to match looks after and maintains ...
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Combine a long-standing rock artist, some very current Kiwi vocalists, a rapper or two, a Sudanese culture and set it all ...
READ MORE >31/10/2018
The second published New Zealand Musician issue (with an orange-suited Dave Dobbyn gracing the cover in recognition of the ...
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This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important ...
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