Courtney Barnett – True Blue Aussie Sheila-type, yeah?

To be published in Rip It Up – September 2014 “Courtney Barnett… The singer-songwriter, who is from New Zealand, will start her run of live shows in Newcastle… ” wrote English music magazine NME recently.  “No way,” was Barnett’s reaction when I told her, “That’s hilarious!  Am I good enough

Bill Bailey Interview

Featured in Rip It Up – August 2014 Comedian Bill Bailey has to take his phone calls from his office because the racket from his ever growing menagerie of exotic creatures is to much a distraction.  “It’s always the same.  Soon as the phone goes the Dingos start howling.  They

INTERVIEW: Kimbra

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

INTERVIEW: Lloyd Cole

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

RÜFÜS’ Jon George chats to Rip It Up

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

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