Songs From The Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister
Just in time for Don McGlashan’s latest tour comes a book about one of the singer-songwriter’s least-known projects. GARY STEEL reviews it.
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe 2023 is a real clever clogs
PAT PILCHER is a voracious reader who hates lugging around a bag full of books. Amazon Kindle's new Scribe is literary manna from heaven.
Space waltzing back in time
Musings on a week of listening, watching and the rest of it. This week GARY STEEL reads a couple of entertaining Kiwi music books.
Flying Nun, definitively.
Sometimes it takes an outsider to tell a story properly, writes GARY STEEL. Here’s the definitive tale of the first eight years of the
Amazon Kindle E-Reader – more books for your bucks
With the new Amazon Kindle you can load a whole library onto the e-reader and its battery will last almost long enough to read
We want the world and we want it now! The counterculture in NZ
It was us against them and the dirty longhairs were going to overthrow (or at least throw up on) the establishment. GARY STEEL looks
The Famous Five revived – a queer old thing
GARY STEEL is a boomer dad with a 7-year-old who is just as infatuated with Enid Blyton’s creation as he was as a child
The Opshop Critique – unbearable music icons and celebrities, ’90s-style
Guest columnist GEORGE HENDERSON is shocked by a book of 1990s interviews with more than a few repugnant personalities.
The other side of this life
GARY STEEL embarks on a journey featuring Satan, brazen defecation, porn and strangulation. It's a hoot.
John Hanlon – Stealing Smokes REVIEW
GARY STEEL reads an anthology of short stories by the guy who sang ‘Damn The Damn.’ And it’s damn good.
Mike Nesmith’s Infinite Tuesday
GARY STEEL’s interview with Michael Nesmith was a shambles and his concert experience of ‘The Monkees’ was a travesty, but Nesmith’s memoir is a
Shayne Carter – Dead People I Have Known (Victoria University Press) BOOK REVIEW
Shayne Carter’s incredible memoir gives GARY STEEL a complex.
Ronnie Was Away With The Birds
Was the rock revolution really ground zero for music? GARY STEEL admits the error of his ways.
Sci-fi Author Jerry Pournelle Ascends To Great Gig In The Sky
Sci-fi freak PAT PILCHER farewells one of his favourite authors.
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