Composing songs and teaching music have been a natural fit for the founding member of The Verlaines who has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Dunedin venues have slowly been disappearing thanks to the boomer-fearing bureaucrats who run this city. There is current controversy surrounding these venues and noise control and it’s now more important than ever to support our local venues and musicians. So here you have it, a definitive
Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold photography book reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s.
JH Elworthy House is an example of a Christchurch Style home
Adapted from a Danish housing model, these properties explored building materials and techniques that were highly radical in their context. There s a running joke that someone in 1950s Christchurch owned a book of contemporary Danish homes, and that denied all contact with the wider world, local architects set about endlessly recreating them with the limited materials they had to hand, Arnold told Dezeen.
The History of the Dunedin Sound: A nostalgic look back on the birth of the Dunedin music scene
The Dunedin Sound is one of New Zealand’s best known music scenes. The cold, dreary and quirky city that we call home has produced some of New Zealand s most notable songwriters and musicians. Much of their work still influences Dunedin musicians today, and is responsible for our unique gig culture we still partake in.
Lesley Paris played a significant role in the Dunedin Sound. Currently the manager of Otago Access Radio, she was part of the band Look Blue Go Purple and the CEO of Flying Nun Records in the 1990s. Lesley recalls that the scene began in the late 1970s.