Film, Music and Theatre : NZ Music

ISBN: 9780958275033
Title: 100 Essential NZ Albums
Author: BOLLINGER NICK

Compiled by one of New Zealand's most popular music columnists, this listing will delight pop music fans everywhere. The choices included cover a broad range and present an eclectic taste. Each entry is accompanied by some of the most entertaining writing about music and musicians, ranging from personal accounts of youthful encounters with music legends as well as passionate responses to renowned albums. Guaranteed to surprise and intrigue, this reference is a must-have for all music lovers.

Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 47813091810201
Title: As Is Where Is CD
Author: LAKE BILL


Format: Compact Disc
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781300102014
Title: As Is Where Is Vinyl + download code
Author: LAKE BILL


Format: Slipcased
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780994115027
Title: Betchadupa & Good Pop Alh047 Number 3/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781869404550
Title: Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of NZ Popular Music 1918-1964
Author: BOURKE CHRIS

Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian sound, and then rock'n'roll, this musical investigation brings to life the people, places, and sounds of a world that has disappeared and uncovers how music from the rest of the world was shaped by Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders into a melody, rhythm, and voice that made sense on these islands. The accompanying audio CD wonderfully brings to life the engaging text, underscoring seminal moments in New Zealand's musical history.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $60.00

ISBN: 9780187466950
Title: Box of Birds Cd
Author: BLOOD CAPTAIN


Format: Compact Disc
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780994115003
Title: Datsuns & Garage Rock Alh045 Number1/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781776562213
Title: Dead People I Have Known
Author: CARTER SHAYNE

Best known for his bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer, Carter takes us deep behind the scenes and songs of these major bands, recounts life with his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys, and traces an intimate history of the Dunedin Sound and the record label Flying Nun. His story follows the pop culture of the 70s, 80s and 90s and the broader culture of New Zealand through this period, especially the bleak and violent aspects of Dunedin that shaped his early life. The story ends in 2018, back in Dunedin, where Carter lives now.

In Dead People I Have Known Carter also writes of the other major force in his life: sport. He describes his love for harness racing, wrestling, basketball and football in rich and often very funny detail, finding a similar solace in these pursuits as he does in music.

Editor Ashleigh Young described the book as ‘a brilliant portrait of the people, places and social forces that are so tightly woven with Carter’s life in music. Carter is a gifted storyteller.’

Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781869538958
Title: Dunedin Sound: Some Disenchanted Evening
Author: CHAPMAN IAN

Within the colourful, cut-throat, ever-evolving world of popular music, New Zealand's southern-most university city, Dunedin, achieved what numerous other music-rich locations around the globe could only dream of: international recognition of its own sound. Like the Mersey Beat, the Nashville Sound or the Seattle Sound, the Dunedin Sound is known and respected the world over.

Equally revered are the bands involved, such as The Clean, The Chills, The Verlaines and may others you will encounter in this salute to Dunedin's finest. Kicked off by the inimitable punk-infused force that was The Enemy in the late 1970s, and carried to the world throughout the 1980s and beyond in true seat-of-the-pants style by the Flying Nun record label, nobody could have foreseen the huge impact and lasting legacy that a pool of young songwriters and musicians from unfashionable Dunedin would create. Within these pages their extraordinary feat is revisited with the stories and select discographies of an array of bands, and critiques and reminiscences from band members, fans and those in the music scene. The Dunedin Sound is celebrated with a veritable feast of photographs and memorabilia, many of which have never been seen before.

Format: Hardback
Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9780994115041
Title: Ejector & Indie Alh049 Number5/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780473217662
Title: Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in NZ
Author: RUSSELL BRUCE ED

Erewhon Calling is a survey of how a bunch of antipodean misfits and malcontents have forged new ways and new reasons to make noise, here at the end of the earth. Edited by Bruce Russell (the Dead C.), in association with Richard Francis and Zoe Drayton; the aim of this volume is to survey the full range of ‘non-standard’ audio practices in contemporary NZ culture. The book’s remit runs from the borders of composed art music, through improvised noise, to deconstructed ‘rock’n pop filth’; and every genre, every scene, every permutation of unconventional audio practice in-between.

The aim is not to be comprehensive (there is literally too much vitality and diversity for any book!). The hope is to ‘throw a good handful of gravel into the pool’. While not every eel will have been hit, the surface will have been rippled from shore to shore, which is more than anyone else has even attempted before. Erewhon Calling makes room for many voices, allowing multiple and possibly conflicting voices and points of view. A range of artists and informed commentators mainly tell their own stories, describe their own work, and outline their own goals in working on the fringes of audio culture. The readers of this important new source book will be able to discern their own meanings and make their own connections from this thought-provoking and unique publication.

Text / page works by Branden W. Joseph, Phil Dadson, Bruce Russell, Michael Morley, Byron Coley, Alastair Galbraith, Empirical, White Saucer, Clayton Noone, Andrew Clifford, Jeff Henderson, Daniel Beban and Nell Thomas, Su Ballard, Jon Bywater, Dan Vallor, Clinton Watkins, Witcyst, Andrew Scott, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton, Vitamin S, Jon Dale, Mark Williams, Nathan Thompson, Beth Dawson, Sean O’Reilly, Kraus, Sean Kerr, Peter Stapleton, Stephen Clover, Dugal McKinnon, Omit, Peter Wright, Jo Burzynska, Ian-John Hutchinson, Kim Pieters, Paul Winstanley, Gentle Persuasion, Zoe Drayton, Simon Cuming, Stevie Kaye, Rachel Shearer, Richard Francis, Rosy Parlane, Kiran Dass, None Gallery, Zita Joyce.

Designed by Richard Francis


Format: Paperback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780994115058
Title: Events & Festivals Alh050 Number 6/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781776561087
Title: Finding Language: the Massey University Composer Addresses
Author: BROWN MICHAEL MEEHAN NORMAN & HOSKINS ROBERT EDS

From 1995 to 2006, eight New Zealand composers were invited to give an annual public address at Massey University: John Ritchie,
Edwin Carr, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, John Cousins, John Rimmer and Chris Cree Brown. The music of the
‘father of New Zealand composition’, Douglas Lilburn, formed the subject of a ninth address by pianist Margaret Nielsen.
Finding Language collects together all the Massey Composer Addresses for the first time. The addresses show some of our most
prominent musical practitioners reflecting, in their own words, upon their creative practices, formative influences, the role of
composers in New Zealand society, and other concerns close to their hearts. The results are a fascinating compendium of views on
New Zealand art composition in the twentieth century and beyond.
Included in Finding Language: The Massey Composer Addresses are the original overviews of each composer’s work by series convenor
Robert Hoskins, together with new afterwords, bibliographic resources, and an introduction. An essential sourcebook for all students
and aficionados of New Zealand art music, as well as those interested in the development of the arts in this country.
Michael Brown works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. He has written on various aspects of New
Zealand music and culture. In 2015, he collaborated with artist Mat Tait on the graphic fiction The Heading Dog Who Split in Half:
Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand (Potton & Burton, 2015).
Norman Meehan is a Wellington-based composer, pianist, writer and teacher. His many releases include five collaborations with the
vocalist Hannah Griffin and Bill Manhire and other poets. He is the author of Time Will Tell: Conversations with Paul Bley, Serious
Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock and New Zealand Jazz Life.
Robert Hoskins is a retired academic. He is the series editor of a number of musical projects and has published on colonial balladry,
eighteenth-century English music, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific writings. His most recent book is Memories of Early Years:
Douglas Lilburn (Steele Roberts, 2015).


Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781927249543
Title: Goneville: a Memoir
Author: BOLLINGER NICK

In his award-winning memoir, New Zealand writer and musician Nick Bollinger talks with complete candour about his unorthodox childhood, his obsession with music, the impact of a family tragedy, and the journey that would decide the course of his life. Bollinger was just 18 when he went on the road with the band Rough Justice and its smoky-voiced, charismatic leader Rick Bryant. The next two years were sometimes uplifting and exciting, other times enervating and depressing. It was the 1970s and pot was plentiful. Often, though, the band was short of other things: money, food, shelter, and petrol for its increasingly ramshackle, broken-down bus.

Goneville is both a coming-of-age story and an intimate look at the evolving music scene in '70s New Zealand. It shows how this music intersected - sometimes violently - with the prevailing culture, in which real men played rugby, not rock. Nick Bollinger draws on his own experiences, seeks out key players and unsung heroes and vividly portrays a divided country, set to shatter apart for a generation.

Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing.


Format: Hardback
Price: $39.00

ISBN: 9781927249222
Title: How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana & the Song that Stormed the World
Author: GRIGG SIMON

Pauly Fuemana of the group Otara Millionaires Club (OMC) was the charismatic singer and creator, with producer Alan Jansson, of the hit record How Bizarre. After the record's release in 1995 it stormed to number one in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and European countries and Fuemana appeared twice on Britain's top-rated TV show Top of the Pops. It was named Single of the Year at the New Zealand Music Awards and remains the country's most internationally successful indie record of all time, having sold over 4 million copies and appeared on at least 100 compilations.

Despite the song's phenomenal success, Fuemana was deeply troubled and found fame hard to handle. His friend, mentor and music publisher Simon Grigg gives a riveting blow-by-blow account of the singer's life and the song's beginnings, runaway success, and effect on Fuemana and the people around him. Along the way there are fascinating and often shocking insights into the ruthlessness of the music industry. This is an inside story never told before.


Format: Paperback
Price: $38.00

ISBN: 9780958250962
Title: How to Listen to Pop Music (#3 Ginger Series)
Author: BOLLINGER NICK

This comprehensive and illuminating guide explores the entire spectrum of pop music, from Beatlemania and the long-playing record to Eminem and the iPod.

Format: Paperback
Price: $26.00

ISBN: 9780473181710
Title: I Felt Like a Fight Alright
Author: CARR RUTH

Despite album titles as black as midnight, Minuit songs can be as joyful as a fat kid with cake, Rolling Stone Magazine. Ever wondered what goes on in that head of Ruth's? It's not often you get to find out. 'I Felt Like A Fight, Alright' is a collection of one-liners, poems, lyrics and tales that give a behind the scenes look at, well, we are not quite sure what it's giving you a look at, but just don't stare at it for too long...

Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781869663292
Title: If I Only Had Time the Autobiography
Author: ROWLES JOHN

John Rowles had the popular music world at his feet in Britain in 1969. Managed by Peter Gormley, the same man who ran Cliff Richard's career, Rowles had two hits in the British top 20, 'If I Only Had Time' and 'Hush Not A Word To Mary'. Forty years later John admits that if had stayed in the UK he could have laid the base for a multi-million dollar career. But homesick for the sun, the 21-year-old Kiwi gave it all up for Hawaii in 1970, and signed up as a caberet star at the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach. It had been a sensational rise for the kid from Kawerau who left home at 15 to play guitar. Basing himself in Hawaii, John's stellar career continued with regular trips all over the USA and appearing on television. He travelled back and forth to New Zealand and Australia regularly and released numerous albums, featuring best-selling hits such as 'Cheryl, Moana Marie' and 'Tania'. Following a highly successful Farewell Tour of New Zealand where he performed over 25 sold out two-and-a-half hour shows with his six-piece band, John Rowles recalls a lifetime of achievements in his highly illustrated autobiography. He speaks candidly to Angus Gillies about the highs and lows of his professional and personal life.

Format: Hardback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781775540892
Title: In Love With These Times: The Flying Nun Story
Author: SHEPHERD ROGER

The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label. I must have been drunk. Roger Shepherd was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying Nun was born. Those records and the bands that created them them - The Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and many more - went on to define an era and create what became known as "the Dunedin Sound". In truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos. In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place, the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension between art and commerce. Filled with revealing anecdote and insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the most innovative and original record labels of the modern era. "Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop history." - Guardian UK. "Something inexplicably special happened in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different." - British comedian Stewart Lee.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $37.00

ISBN: 9781927242735
Title: Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, Composer
Author: SHENNAN J, WHITEHEAD G & ASKEW S

nternationally renowned composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body is 70 — celebrate his birthday and unswerving commitment to New Zealand music with this beautiful volume. Featuring more than 120 contributions, Jack! is an astounding collection of memories, photos, paintings, art and music from friends and colleagues such as Vincent Ward, Slamet A Sjukur, Geoff Chapple, Martin Lodge, Tan Dun, Charles Te Ahukaramu Royal, Gao Ping, Ian Wedde, Gareth Farr, Budi Putra, José Evangelista and Richard Nunns.

Woven between the stories is a transcript of Jack’s comprehensive Radio NZ ‘Composer of the Week’ interview with Elizabeth Kerr.

A must for lovers of contemporary New Zealand music.


Format: Hardback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9780947493226
Title: Kiwi Pacific Records Story
Author: VERCOE TONY

These interviews trace Kiwi Pacific Records from its beginnings as a division of publishers AH & AW Reed Ltd to its independence as Kiwi Pacific Records, all under the direction of Tony Vercoe.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9790901320765
Title: Living Echoes: the First 150 Years of Piano Music from Nz
Author: BIBBY GILLIAN ED

Here are 54 of the most charming, scary, funny, and dancing pieces of the piano music of New Zealand’s first years, written by 32 composers over 150 years. Their manuscripts were mostly unpublished – until now.

The earliest of the composers was the extraordinary Baron de Thierry. Fascinated by romantic tales of the voyages of Captain Cook, he bought land in the Hokianga in 1822. Later there were emigres escaping a war in Europe. Some of the pieces were written by children who went on to have marvellous musical careers. Other composers are still very much alive.

The music is suitable for a wide variety of pianists. Some are very easy and can be played by beginners. The pieces become successively more advanced, up to grade 7 level.

Format: Paperback
Price: $34.00

ISBN: 9781760111861
Title: Lorde Your Heroine the Unauthorised Biography
Author: SHAPIRO MARC

New Zealander newcomer Lorde released her debut album, Pure Heroine, in September 2013. It reached the top of the modern rock/alternative and rock albums charts, and the lead single 'Royals' won the 2014 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Lorde's a musical performer with a style that is as haunting as it is enticing and is as famous for her unique and powerfully intriguing voice as she is for her refreshing frankness and intelligence. Called the voice of her generation, Lorde's achievements are all the more amazing because of her young age. Signed by Universal at the age of thirteen, she's wowed the world with her vocal prowess and captivating stage presence, and her songs have won awards around the world -- all by the age of seventeen.

Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781138195691
Title: Made in Australia & Aotearoa/NZ: Studies In Popular Music
Author: BRUNT SHELLEY & STAHL GEOFF (EDS)


Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $63.00

ISBN: 9518526547530
Title: Movement a Low Hum Box Set (black)
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Boxed Set
Price: $269.00

ISBN: 9780473316792
Title: Movement a Low Hum Box Set (orange)
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Boxed Set
Price: $340.00

ISBN: 9780994115089
Title: Music from Nz 2000-2015 Number 1 Alh053 Number 9/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781776562169
Title: Necessity for Consolation: John Cousins Speaks
Author: HOSKINS ROBERT & MEEHAN NORMAN



John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand composers, John Cousins has ‘thrown the spear furthest’, meaning he is one of our most original artists, going beyond the edge. Provocative and penetrating and fundamentally true, Cousins remains absorbed and energised in and by creative work.

On the conversations, talks and reflections gathered in this volume, John Cousins speaks of landscape, family, himself, and shares a musical vision of consolation and hope.

John Cousins was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1943. He received training as a musician, graduating with an honours degree in music from the University of Canterbury in 1965, and taught there from 1967 to 2004. Over the years his work has evolved from conventional musical composition to sculptural performance, mixed-media and sonic art, and has been performed, broadcast and exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Europe, Russia and the USA.

Robert Hoskins is a writer on music and the series editor of a number of musical projects. His specialised areas of research include eighteenth-century English music, colonial balladry, aspects of New Zealand music, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his most recent book is Douglas Lilburn: Memories of Early Years and Other Writings (Steele Roberts, 2014).

Norman Meehan, a pianist and composer, has collaborated extensively with New Zealand poet Bill Manhire. He is also the author of the books Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock (VUP, 2010) and New Zealand Jazz Life (VUP, 2016).


Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781869403447
Title: Nga Moteatea the Songs Part 2 With 2 Cds
Author: NGATA A T & JONES PEI TE HURINUI

An essential text for anyone studying Polynesian music and culture or Maori, Pacific Island, or New Zealand history, this redesigned edition of the classic study of Maori music contains an annotated collection of traditional Maori songsthe waiata. Study of the waiata is enhanced by the included recordings of the songs performed by traditional Maori singers.

Format: Hardback
Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9781877513145
Title: Nz Irish Voices Stories from Irish Migrants & Their Descendants
Author: HANSEN KAREN

Sticky Little Fingers is a fundraising cookbook produced by Normandale Playcentre - a parent co-operative for children aged five years and under. The book features over 100 pages of 'tried and tested' family recipes, including children?s favourite dishes, as well as recipes for 'messy play'.

Format: Paperback
Price: $33.00