Reprinted from Rip It Up – April 2014 – http://www.ripitup.co.nz/music/interview-kimbra-2/ The drive from Wellington to New Plymouth took considerably longer than expected. By Hawera I was getting really concerned we weren’t going to make our 2:30pm appointment. Beside me, my daughter McKenzie, my ‘cub reporter’, was frantically texting the WOMAD
Republished in Rip It Up – May 2014 http://www.ripitup.co.nz/music/interview-lloyd-cole/ “I hadn’t thought of that,” laugh Lloyd Cole, after contemplating my suggestion to open his Christchurch show with John Hatford’s “California Earthquake”, “I like the obvious irony in that.” Cole tells me he came across the song when he was looking
http://www.ripitup.co.nz/music/ruefues-jon-george-chats-to-rip-it-up/ Republished from Rip It Up – June 2014 Bringing their show to NZ shores for the first time, the RÜFÜS live experience is a combines live instruments, electronic production, and skilled pop and a dare to dance mentality to the Studio, this Thursday. Tim Gruar had a quick chat
Reprinted from the original – Rip It Up August: http://www.ripitup.co.nz/music/interview-mi-sex-keyboardist-murray-burns/ The first time I heard ’80s Kiwi icons Mi-Sex was in the basement of my school hall. My Form 2 teacher had bought a job lot of excess cassettes from the EMI factory in Lower Hutt and was selling them
A little over four years ago social historian Linda Bryder suggested that the infamous investigation into the so called ‘unfortunate experiment’ at National Women’s hospital, the Cartwright Report held over 1987 -88 somehow got it all wrong. Her book ‘A History of the Unfortunate Experiment at National Women’s Hospital’ opened
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