Blog Archives
Believing you are a star, Nick Bollinger
Dead People I Have Known Shayne Carter Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776562213 Rock odysseys can start in obscure places. Shayne Carter’s began in Brockville, a state-housing suburb of Dunedin, a city at the southern end of a country that…
Tagged with: Issue 127, Nick Bollinger, Shayne Carter, Spring 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Larrikins past, Nick Bollinger
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand Chris Brickell Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408688 In 1971, I became a teenager. It was the start of a complicated, confusing, exciting time. Over the next few years, I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Brickell, Issue 120, Nick Bollinger, Summer 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Carnival anarchists, Martin Edmond
Goneville: A Memoir Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $39.00, ISBN 9781927249543 This Explains Everything Richard von Sturmer Atuanui Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780994137609 The authors of these two books have a few things in common: they were both born in late 1950s…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Autumn 2017, Awa Press, Issue 117, Martin Edmond, Nick Bollinger, Richard von Sturmer
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Bright satins, razor-encrusted leathers, Nick Bollinger
Glam Rock Boyfriends, An Imaginary Memoir Raewyn Alexander Brightspark Books ISBN 9780473266646 For many years, the rock musician in New Zealand was viewed as an outsider: a long-haired, strangely-clothed, promiscuous, drug-taking menace. But somewhere along the line, the conventional citizen…
Tagged with: Brightspark Books, Issue 107, Nick Bollinger, Raewyn Alexander, Spring 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Dead ends and hairpin bends, Nick Bollinger
Highway of Legends: On the Road with the Kings and Queens of Country Music Dianne Haworth HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 1869505891 The road is a place, both real and metaphorical, central to the life of any professional musician. It is where…
Tagged with: Dianne Haworth, HarperCollins, Issue 79, Nick Bollinger, Spring 2007
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Down by the river, Charlotte Yates
How to Listen to Pop Music Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250960 Nick Bollinger is well known as a music reviewer or, perhaps the weightier epithet, rock journalist. He has worked in print media since 1988 for, among others,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Awa Press, Charlotte Yates, Issue 69, Nick Bollinger
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Words for music perhaps, Nick Bollinger
Love This Life: Lyrics 1978-2001 Neil Finn Allen & Unwin, $35.00, ISBN 1865085081 Lyrics without melody Mahinarangi Tocker Street Women Press, $19.95, ISBN 0473074427 I have always been a passionate pop fan, but never a great lover of the printed…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, December 2001, Issue 51, Mahinarangi Tocker, Neil Finn, Nick Bollinger, Street Women Press
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review