The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire
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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Kelly Joe Phelps
14 Nov 2013 | 3 min read
Although The Edge from U2 is on record saying, "Kelly Joe Phelps is a great example of what the modern blues is all about" there's a lot more to the man than that, as his answers below illustrate. From Washington state, Phelps started out in jazz as a bassist for 10 years but then worked his way into various kinds of roots music when picking up slide guitar. He must be one the... > Read more
Sometimes a Drifter
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Charlotte Ivey and Harley Williams of The Tiny Lies
12 Nov 2013 | 3 min read
The Tiny Lies who are based in Lyttelton but are currently touring (see dates below) describe the music on their debut album The Oaks They Wil Bow as "alt-folk-country-noir". At Elsewhere we'll buy that. But we'll also call it very good indeed (see review here). The Tiny Lies are Charlotte Ivey (vocals, harmonica, piano) and Harley Williams (Vocals, guitars) and for their... > Read more
The Walls Came Down
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Matthew Bannister
10 Nov 2013 | 3 min read
Matthew Bannister has some serious form, as they say. A founder member of the singular Flying Nun band Sneaky Feelings, he then formed Dribbling Darts of Love when SFeelings folded, and subsequently founded the Weather and has also recorded as One Man Bannister. Oh, and there was also the Changing Same. He is a Beatles fan from childhood -- he said the Sneaky Feelings photo on the... > Read more
And Your Bird Can Sing
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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Rhian Sheehan
28 Oct 2013 | 3 min read
New Zealand electronica artists Rhian Sheehan has steered an astute path between experimental and ambient, orchestrated and elemental music, and as a result has been picking up acclaim from the main thread of electronica artists and also for his soundtrack work. One of his works, We Are Astronomers, is used by Britain's National Space Centre and is played in digital planeteriums around the... > Read more
Rhian Sheehan: Places Between
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Eddie Rayner
21 Oct 2013 | 3 min read
For the briefest moment Elsewhere considered adding "of Split Enz" after Eddie Rayner's name at the top. But that goes without saying and, in many ways, is far too limiting. Since the heyday of Split Enz, the keyboardist without portfolio has built up an impressive CV which includes work with artists as diverse as Paul McCartney and The Orb, Crowded House and the Exponents. He... > Read more
Stuff N' Nonsense
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Nick Raven
13 Oct 2013 | 3 min read
Young New Zealand singer-songwriter Nick Raven says something about his debut album Love and Lomography which piques Elsewhere's interest immediately: it's not only available on download but also on vinyl . . . and cassette. That's a kind of when-worlds-collide scenario -- done in what he calls "a fit of nostalgic and tactile madness" -- but the 19-year old is serious. He's... > Read more
Talk
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Apra Silver Silver Scroll 2013 nominee Pete Wadams
5 Oct 2013 | 2 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Aaradhna
4 Oct 2013 | 2 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Joel Little
3 Oct 2013 | 3 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Cy Winstanley of Tattletale Saints
2 Oct 2013 | 2 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Luke Buda of Phoenix Foundation
1 Oct 2013 | 3 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Anna Coddington
30 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
The annual APRA Silver Scroll award acknowledges excellence in songwriting, so at Elsewhere we modified our Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire and tailored it to be specifically about the craft of songwriting for this year's five finalists. These five were decided by the 10,000 strong APRA membership – all songwriters or composers themselves – who voted for their champion for... > Read more
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Norman Meehan
28 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
Norman Meehan is more than a jazz composer and gifted pianist, he also teaches jazz composition and history at the New Zeaand School of Music in Wellington. And he wrote the very fine biography of Mike Nock, Serious Fun (reviewed here) and Ten Conversations with Paul Bley. On his own albums he has set the poetry of Americn e.e. cummings and New Zealand's Bill Manhire to music, and... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Jamie Moana
27 Sep 2013 | 2 min read
Every year Auckland University hosts a showcase for their talented music students. This year in addition to the five finalists for songwriter of the year there are also categories for best vocalist, best lyricist, best instrumentalist, best arranger and best song. It's a big night with judges from the top of the music industry and once again Elsewhere is pleased to introduce the... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Callum Lee
26 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
Every year Auckland University hosts a showcase for their talented music students. This year in addition to the five finalists for songwriter of the year there are also categories for best vocalist, best lyricist, best instrumentalist, best arranger and best song. It's a big night with judges from the top of the music industry and once again Elsewhere is pleased to introduce the... > Read more
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Shana Llorando
25 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
Every year Auckland University hosts a showcase for their talented music students. This year in addition to the five finalists for songwriter of the year there are also categories for best vocalist, best lyricist, best instrumentalist, best arranger and best song. It's a big night with judges from the top of the music industry and once again Elsewhere is pleased to introduce the... > Read more
Dodging Bullets
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Emily Rice
24 Sep 2013 | 2 min read
Every year Auckland University hosts a showcase for their talented music students. This year in addition to the five finalists for songwriter of the year there are also categories for best vocalist, best lyricist, best instrumentalist, best arranger and best song. It's a big night with judges from the top of the music industry and once again Elsewhere is pleased to introduce the... > Read more
On the Road to Moab
THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: University of Auckland songwriter finalist Brayden Jeffrey
23 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
Every year Auckland University hosts a showcase for their talented music students. This year in addition to the five finalists for songwriter of the year there are also categories for best vocalist, best lyricist, best instrumentalist, best arranger and best song. It's a big night with judges from the top of the music industry and once again Elsewhere is pleased to introduce the... > Read more
Fingertips
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Corb Lund
16 Sep 2013 | 3 min read
Curiously enough it wasn't the name "Corb Lund" (memorable enough perhaps) which caught my attention when I was in Vancouver, it was the name of his band: the Hurtin' Albertans. Great band name and if I hadn't been leaving town I would have made the effort to see them on the basis of that moniker alone. Now I don't have to travel so far because Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans... > Read more
September
THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Dyne
9 Sep 2013 | 2 min read
Bassist Paul Dyne has long been the anchorman in the Wellington jazz scene, both as a performer and educator. These days he is Associate Professor at the New Zealand School of Music, but his CV is stacked with big names whom he played alongside: Sonny Stitt and Pepper Adams (when he lived in Montreal in the Seventies), Lee Konitz, Emily Remler, Bobby Shew, Mike Nock, Andrew Hill . . .... > Read more