US-based ex-pats Miriam Clancy and Dion Lunadon (The D4) share long-time love for I Love My Leather Jacket, and joined forces to record their own take on it. NZ music agency susiesays: "Clancy met Martin Phillipps in NYC 9 years ago...
www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/miri...
Speaking of 'I Love My Leather Jacket' covers, this one is a banger too...
Tim Mahon (Blam Blam Blam) has just released a solo album, 'The Great Kerfuffle'. He's playing tonight at Whammy, and on Friday 12th at Rosemary's, Taupo. The support act is the legendary Teina Benioni (Ardijah/Bamboo), and Mahon's all-star band Kerfuffle...
www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/blam...
Here's something really nice if you get a few minutes' break today. John Gibson is a prolific theatre and screen composer, and has been musical director of theatres in Dunedin and Auckland. His song choices – and descriptions – are well worth a read and listen: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
Here's something really nice if you get a few minutes' break today. John Gibson is a prolific theatre and screen composer, and has been musical director of theatres in Dunedin and Auckland. His song choices – and descriptions – are well worth a read and listen: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
...We've just published two brilliant pieces by Nick Bollinger. The first is about South African-born Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington musician Kevin Clark – the story of his experimental group 40 Watt Banana is only part of his astonishing career.
www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/kevi...
...star band Kerfuffle features Mark Bell, Roger Stanners and John Murray.
In the video for the Blams' 'No Depression', you can see Mark Bell (guitar) and Tim Mahon (bass) dance in Vegemite and Marmite costumes.
You can listen to Mahon's new album here:
timmahon.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...
......and he was stoked to hear she had been playing 'I Love My Leather Jacket' in her sets. It felt right to record it with another mutual friend, NZ rock 'n' roll legend Dion Lunadon, and direct Phillipps' lovely words back to him, echoing how we all feel now that he's gone."
www.susiesays.co.nz
"Kevin Clark can hardly believe his eyes. He’s just been looking at Discogs, the online database and marketplace for audio recordings, and seen a copy of a single he cut in 1970 with a band he named The 40 Watt Banana selling, 55 years later, for $353"...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
"Kevin Clark can hardly believe his eyes. He’s just been looking at Discogs, the online database and marketplace for audio recordings, and seen a copy of a single he cut in 1970 with a band he named The 40 Watt Banana selling, 55 years later, for $353"...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
New Zealand, ecstatic and epic. Its beauty and power is in every New Zealander’s DNA. Even of itself, the landscape is astonishingly creative. Deep in the heart of Milford extremes of weather literall...
New Zealand, ecstatic and epic. Its beauty and power is in every New Zealander’s DNA. Even of itself, the landscape is astonishingly creative. Deep in the heart of Milford extremes of weather literall...
This is somethin' else: \m/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcdI...
Clark was born and grew up in Uitenhage in the East Cape of South Africa. His earliest musical memories are the Xhosa lullabies and tribal songs his Black nanny would sing to him. With their strong fo...
Kevin Clark can hardly believe his eyes. He’s just been looking at Discogs, the online database and marketplace for audio recordings, and seen a copy of a single he cut in 1970 with a band he named Th...
Kevin Clark can hardly believe his eyes. He’s just been looking at Discogs, the online database and marketplace for audio recordings, and seen a copy of a single he cut in 1970 with a band he named Th...
