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The 23-year-old belies his age when he speaks of his passion for songwriting and performance. His appreciation for a great song transcends the modern pop production that colours much of his recorded output. “Of course I love production but when you can play a song simply, the chords, the melody and the lyrics. When a song has the ability to move you when you strip it back to its simplest form, then it’s a great song,” Finn said. Lyrically Finn’s songs have broad scope, ranging from his youth, with stories of nights on the town and ‘‘teenage queens’’ to cosmic imagery and a plea to put down the cellphone and live in the moment from the single
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K Road rooftop artist, Chris Stapp, hopes the neighbouring landlords will his embrace the small, creative additions he has made to an otherwise barren urban landscape.
By moonlight one man climbs the rooftops of Auckland s K Road, creating hidden art as a panacea to the gentrification of a wild, beautiful street . Chris Stapp, stuntman, actor, musician and artist is an unstoppable creative force. It is a tale of two cities divided by a wall, which Stapp believes is separating the final ’character ’ of Auckland’s Karangahape Rd from gentrification. On the other side of the wall there s a massive construction site right beside us, Stapp said. A train station, a fancy shopping precinct and a major apartment building at the end of the driveway.
Continuing our series of must-have albums for any music-lover we would like to share with you three gems that feature some of the most beautiful sugar-coated pop songs ever written.
From ‘Fall at Your Feet’ by the incomparable Crowded House from Down Under to ‘Old Man Took’ by the folk rock outfit America and the blissful ‘Michelle’ by the Beatles, these are records with songs that will touch your heart, lift your spirits and put a smile on your face.
‘The Very, Very Best of’ by Crowded House
Released: July 2010 ‘The Very, Very Best of’ by Crowded House Image Credit: Wikipedia