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Interviews
31/03/2021
Renee Millner: Fly Me Back
Taranaki singer-songwriter Renee Millner has released a new single, Fly Me Back, with an accompanying music video set in a dystopian landscape that seems to disintegrate in slow motion. The single follows two EPs and another ...
Interviews
21/12/2020
Amamelia: Give Her Space
Featuring in NZM as a Fresh Talent along with her Kip McGrath bandmates back in August 2016, Amelia Berry came more into her own once that band morphed into the less contentiously-named Polyester. The jangle-synth five-piece ...
Interviews
14/02/2020
Troy Kingi: Triumphs Of Diversity
Troy Kingi is systematically establishing himself as a national treasure. Over the last few years, the Kerikeri resident singer/songwriter has risen in prominence thanks to some creative recordings, a 10/10/10 (10 albums ...
Interviews
07/08/2019
Industry Types: Ben Mulchin, Promoter
Being a promoter seems a tough role, in what is a tough industry right across the board – especially in small such a small music scene as NZ. Pressure is always on for gigs and tours to succeed not flop, with audiences ...
Interviews
01/05/2019
Industry Types: Andrew Manning (Lyn McAllister Music)
In what can appear as a glamorous industry, where musicians, publicists and big label bosses garner a lot of the attention, often it is the somewhat overlooked aspects of the music industry that appear more interesting. Lyn ...
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Finding Your Voice
07/06/2017
Finding Your Voice: Time To Take A Self-Esteem Bath
Much space was left behind in the wake of my last column about the myth of needing the self-confidence to sing. Listing pitfalls of over and under-confidence didn’t provide strategies of how to grow healthy self-esteem, ...
Deep Thinking
03/05/2017
Deep Thinking: Polymetric Basslines
In this issue we are going to look at polymetric basslines and drum patterns that have been recorded by two bands described online as ‘progressive’ or ‘extreme’ metal. Whether those are accurate descriptions of them ...
Deep Thinking
15/03/2017
Deep Thinking: The Age Of Aquarius
In this issue I am looking at a tune from a musical I saw when I was 15 years old. It was one of the reasons I became a professional musician in the ’70s, and it has been covered by some great people. The musical was called ...
Deep Thinking
21/12/2016
Deep Thinking: Some 12/8 Xmas Trickiness With The Verlaines!
As it’s the Christmas period, I thought I would do some shameless marketing. There is a new album, ‘Dunedin Spleen’ from The Verlaines, a Dunedin band with which I play, that’s due for release in the new year. My ...
Deep Thinking
07/12/2016
Deep Thinking: Keyboard Bass + Bass Guitar = Huge Bass!
This Deep Thinking bass lesson concerns how two sources of bass in a band can sound big and grunty (is that a word?). I did loads of adverts and television soundtracks between the 1970s and 1990s that combined a synth bass, ...