Interviews·Music·NZ music Beat Rhythm Fashion โ two ancient interviews November 8, 2023 Gary Steel To honour recent interest in Wellingtonโs post-punk era GARY STEEL digs up two interview transcripts with Beat Rhythm Fashion. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings The Great Witchdoctor Q&A โ Phil Bowering November 6, 2023 Gary Steel Low Profileโs Elephunkinโ is one of the most fondly remembered Kiwi songs of the 1980s, but what has Phil Bowering been up to since Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music Horny hip-hop September 12, 2023 Gary Steel GARY STEEL asks big band maestro Rodger Fox some questions about his album/tour collaboration with conscious hip-hopper King Kapisi. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Far Out โ tripping the light fantastic July 27, 2023 Gary Steel Twenty years ago GARY STEEL interviewed Trevor Reekie and Tom Ludvigson of Trip about their Pretty Cool album. Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music Forty years ago: Wellingtonโs legendary Primitive Art Group June 2, 2023 Gary Steel Anthony and Stuart of Primitive Art Group explain the complex simplicity of their groupโs explorative terrain to GARY STEEL. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings 40 years ago: Grammar Boys May 30, 2023 Gary Steel Itโs still NZ Music Month so GARY STEEL continues the excavation of his mouldering story scrapbook. Today's travesty: Grammar Boys.ย Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music The Gordons: Free birds with massive tweet May 29, 2023 Gary Steel To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL excavates a 1983 interview - 40 years ago! - with legendary noisemakers The Gordons. Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music 40 years ago โ The Kiwi Animal May 19, 2023 Gary Steel Itโs New Zealand Music Month, so GARY STEEL digs up a 40-year-old story he wrote about NZ musical duo The Kiwi Animal. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings 40 years ago: Wellingtonโs Tin Syndrome May 16, 2023 Gary Steel Itโs New Zealand Music Month and for the occasion, GARY STEEL digs up some musical skeletons from his past. Today itโs Tin Syndromeโs turn. Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Forty years ago: the slow-cooked post-punk of Unrestful Movements May 11, 2023 Gary Steel For NZ Music Month GARY STEEL dips once again into his archive of interviews. From May 1983, here are Unrestful Movements. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Forty years ago โ Philbo keeps a low profile May 3, 2023 Gary Steel To celebrate New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL reaches far back into his archives for two pieces he wrote on musician Phil Bowering. Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music Forty years ago – This act ends with a bang May 2, 2023 Gary Steel GARY STEEL loves interviewing obscure and entertaining NZ bands. Back in 1983 Moving Targets had big plans. Where are they now? Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music Dire Straits 40 years ago April 26, 2023 Gary Steel GARY STEEL interviewed two members of Dire Straits both before and after their 1983 gig in a dangerously windy Wellington. Read More
Interviews·Music UB40 โ Militant and hot as. An interview with Astro March 27, 2023 Gary Steel When GARY STEEL spoke to UB40's Astro 40 years ago the hitmaking band still described themselves as anarchists. Read More
Interviews·Music Blast from the past: Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy March 23, 2023 Gary Steel Thirty years ago GARY STEEL sat down at an Auckland sidewalk cafรฉ to chat with Michael Franti ahead of their performance in Auckland. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music Pussycats in leather: Skid Row land in Auckland February 7, 2023 Gary Steel Vulgar and abusive on stage, wild metal animals Skid Row purr in the presence of tabby-tamer GARY STEEL in this 1990 interview. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·Recordings Whatever happened toโฆ Adeva January 27, 2023 Gary Steel Whatever happened to the gutsy late 1980s/early 1990s soulful house diva Adeva? GARY STEEL, who interviewed her at the time, finds out. Retrospectively, over Read More
Albums·Interviews·NZ music·Recordings·Thought Piece Flying Nun, definitively. November 7, 2022 Gary Steel Sometimes it takes an outsider to tell a story properly, writes GARY STEEL. Hereโs the definitive tale of the first eight years of the Read More
Interviews·Music Summer of drugs July 6, 2022 Gary Steel The psychedelic revolution flamed into the Summer Of Love in 1967 and Barry Miles was in the thick of it. GARY STEEL interviews the Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·Recordings Rebel smell โ Timeโs up for shock rockers June 21, 2022 Gary Steel Is it time for rock and roll rebels to face the music? GARY STEEL fuses his 1990s Marilyn Manson interview with musings on shock Read More