David Herkt reviews Chris Knox: Not given lightly by Craig Robertson
Why Don’t You Leap In?
Mark Broatch on Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
Gallons of Beer
Garth Cartwright Goneville: A memoir by Nick Bollinger (Awa Press, 2016), 293 pp., $39 The Kiwi music memoir has arrived with a vengeance in recent years. Leading the way was Simon Grigg’s How Bizarre, chronicling his journey with South Auckland Polynesian pop-rap outfit OMC to the top of the world charts and then all the way […]
Otara Millionaires Club and the Flying Nun Sound
James Dignan How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana and the song that stormed the world by Simon Grigg (Awa Press, 2015), 255 pp., $38; In Love with These Times: My life with Flying Nun Records by Roger Shepherd (Harper Collins, 2016), 295 pp., $36.99 Two fine new books from insiders at the heart of two important chapters in the […]