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Garth Porter awarded an Australia Day Honour
NZ-born Garth Porter, best known for his role & work in Sherbet has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia. In Hamilton, NZ, Garth first put a foot in the music industry door when he was 14 & playing rhythm guitar in a band called Fruit. Next it was a band known as…
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Behind the Rock and Beyond
I’d read Behind the Rock by Jon Hayton & Leon Isackson in 1996. Vicki Perjanik had bought me a copy & given it to me the day I interviewed Mike Perjanik for the biography I was the researching about Tommy Adderley (who is mentioned in this book). When the updated version of the book Behind the…
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Listening to Dave Hogan at the Cherry Bar, December 23, 2018
As Dave commented when we had a quick chat between sets at Heinous Hounds’ gig at the Cherry Bar, playing 2 days before Christmas seemed a silly day to do an afternoon gig but an enthusiastic crowd was there to hear them. They are a stunning blues band with 4 vocalists (including Dave) who take…
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Finding Dave Hogan …
My scouts had been at it again ………………. & had found another Kiwi musician for me to interview; a man who came to Australia in the right era for the book. But the afternoon I met him (to interview him) he was sitting waiting for me in Basement Discs wearing his Tommy Adderley Benefit Show…
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Listening to live music; going to shows in NZ in the 70s
My sister remained in Taranaki. In the first couple of years after she had left school she went to listen to bands in pubs even though she was legally too young to do this. When she & I talked more about the live music she heard growing up in the 70s, she said she went…
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