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Ngaire Fuata was a brief but bright comet across New Zealand radio in the early Nineties, as much on the strength of some canny song choices by her producers as for her gently soulful voice.
Her producers (and sometimes songwriters) were Simon Lynch and Tony T (Tony Nogotautama) who recorded this sole Ngaire album at the Lab in Auckland.
Their funky and perc...
Two stories, years apart but linked.
Some time in the last Sixties there was a short piece in Playboy about a guitarist who was gifted.
Ask him to play like Eric Clapton and he could.
Ask him to play like Jeff Beck and he could.
Ask him to play like Peter Green and he could.
Ask him to play like Jimi Hendrix and …
He just ...
Respected, nervous, anorexic and almost popular sometimes, he was always his own man.
Reilly – .....
Like most people, Elsewhere always thought of Thunderclap Newman as one of those terrific one-hit wonders from the late Sixties.
And indeed they were.
Their sole song familiar to most – Something in the Air, number one in Britain in 1969 – was the beginning and end of it really.
They probably made an album … and indeed they did.
It ...
<...When many people say “What a great time to be alive” on social media they generally mean it in a cynical way.
But there have been kind of peak periods in the past century: the intellectual communities of Paris after WWI; Shanghai in the Thirties; New York in the Fifties …
Then there was the explosion of British pop culture in the early Sixties which in ...