Howdy, everybody! Wow, almost at the end of another month, and lots of stuff to report back from the trenches!!! For starters, we have just received a fresh batch of Slow Boat tee shirts in a variety of colours, some of them never seen before – green and grey, along with the ‘classic’ black and [...]
PERFORMANCE Bill Direen Slowboat Records 183 Cuba Street, Wellington Friday 17 September 2010 6pm Most histories of recorded music concentrate on the final product: the crescendo of the classic album. In reality the final product is a small part of a band (or an artist’s) life, which otherwise is dominated by process. Traversing the highways [...]
A heapin’ Â helping of heartfelt Slow Boat sympathy going out to the people of Christchurch in the wake of Saturday’s devastating earthquake – how fortunate there was no loss of life. Our thoughts are with those inconvenienced and displaced, and those with friends and family in the Garden City…
Terrific news that Slow Boat homeboys and all round thoroughly excellent rock band The Phoenix Foundation have scooped the three NZ Music Awards technical awards they were so far nominated for for their recent ‘Buffalo’ opus, with the band themselves winning best producer, knob-twiddler extraordinaire Lee Prebble winning best engineer, and designer Paul Johnson winning [...]
