Interviews·Music Shriekback: Making the brain dance September 19, 2024 Gary Steel Way back in 1986 GARY STEEL chatted with Shriekback main man Barry Andrews prior to the groupโs NZ tour. Here's that interview. Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music Teremoana Rapley: Back in time to โ97 for the Lifetime Achievement award-winner August 19, 2024 Gary Steel To celebrate her Lifetime Achievement honour at the forthcoming Pacific Music Awards hereโs GARY STEELโs previously unpublished 1997 interview with Teremoana Rapley. Read More
Gear·Hi-Fi·Sound and Vision Do quality audio cables make a difference? May 31, 2024 Gary Steel The debate rages on. Many self-proclaimed experts reckon that any cheap cable will sound as good as an expensive one. GARY STEEL reveals the Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Jayrem โ The โnot Flying Nunโ 1980s Kiwi record label May 24, 2024 Gary Steel To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL digs up a rare 1986 interview with Wellington record label owner Jim Moss. Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·Recordings Mike Oldfield with bells on May 20, 2024 Gary Steel Mike Oldfieldโs Tubular Bells is over 50 years old but still sounds fresh. GARY STEEL chats with the man behind the upcoming Auckland performance Read More
Interviews·Music·NZ music Long lost stories: The Mockers 41 years ago May 14, 2024 Helen Collett HELEN COLLETT interviewed The Mockersโ main man Andrew Fagan as the band perched on the edge of chart success. A NZ Music Month special. Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Aldous Harding: The lost interview May 2, 2024 Gary Steel Especially for New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL disinters a 10-year-old interview with Aldous Harding conducted at the time of her debut album. Read More
Albums·Interviews·Music 30 Years Ago: Michael Nyman’s unexpected chart success April 15, 2024 Gary Steel Michael Nyman is not a pop star. Yet his soundtrack to The Piano has landed him in the commercial marketplace, writes GARY STEEL Read More
Interviews·Music The Shadows: Interviewed 40 years ago February 2, 2024 Gary Steel Way back in 1984 GARY STEEL had a natter with The Shadows during their New Zealand tour and extracted their exasperation. 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
Food & Drink The chilli whisperer – Carol Wheeler interviewed July 20, 2023 Pat Pilcher In the second part of his very hot trilogy PAT PILCHER interviews chilli expert Carol Wheeler the questions you want answered. 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
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
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