David Kilgour and Sam Hunt | Falling Debris
The story of Sam Hunt and David Kilgour coming together to collaborate is a cute one. Finding themselves stuck at Dunedin airport in 2007, both men felt too star struck to strike up a conversation with the other. Eventually they overcame themselves though and began a conversation that would lead to their collaboration on ‘Falling Debris.’
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Opensouls | Hold You Close Video
Ladies and Gentlemen! Come one come all! Don’t be shy now! It’s the one and only Tyra Hammond show! Step right up folks and watch some of New Zealand’s most prominent and promising musicians slink in the shadow of a growing diva right before your very eyes!
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Fly My Pretties | The Return
It’s hard to review an album that you know so well. It’s like making a critique of a lover to a stranger. I discovered The Return a bit late in the piece when I returned home to New Zealand after some time away.
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Fly My Pretties | Live at Bats
Live at Bats was recorded over 5 nights at the Bats Theatre in Wellington. The shows went on to become the most attended events of the Bats’ 2004 season, and if the album is anything to go by it is easy to see why.
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Dan Paine | Four Me Mix
A good mix CD is like a good story – a beginning that builds and gives you a taste of what’s to come, a cohesive middle with variation and interest, and an end that brings you back to earth gently. I put this on before making Saturday breakfast and by track two, I realised that breakfast would have to wait.
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