Dimmer Announce I Believe You Are A Star 20th Anniversary Tour Chris Cudby / Photo credit: Esta de Jong / Monday 5th July, 2021 8:30AM
Shayne P. Carter unleashed the long-awaited debut album from
Dimmer, answering the question of what could possibly follow his global success with
Straitjacket Fits. Created over five years and launched in 2001 via Sony Records, Carter embraced the newly accessible world of digital music production to write and record
I Believe You Are A Star, as detailed in the artist s candid award-winning autobiography
Dead People I Have Known. He emerged from the process artistically renewed and fresh-faced with a decidedly non-rock sonic palette, encompassing moody avant-electronica, motorik, funk and soul, serving up killer single / videos Evolution , Seed , I Believe You Are a Star and Drop You Off .
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Tepi Amohia has spent 35 years, on and off, living on the streets of Christchurch. He was a friend of a fellow streetie, Ox, who journalist Vicki Anderson spent time with. (Tepi gave his permission for this photograph to be taken.)
As part of the Making Ends Meet series, VICKI ANDERSON spends some time with a few of the people living on Christchurch s streets. I met Ox last summer. With a few hours to kill on a Saturday morning, I strolled down Hereford St, on my way to Scorpio Books to buy Shayne Carter s excellent book,
Dead People I Have Known. Purchase in hand, I nearly bumped into a smiling man with big dreadlocks.
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