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  • How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Edmund Cake's "Downtown Puff"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Behold the Golden Man!   Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? ...

  • The Phoenix Foundation "Pegasus" Vinyl launch instore at Slow Boat!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting our favourite local homeboys, The Phoenix Foundation, for an instore celebration of the first e...

  • Record Store Day 2025 at Slow Boat

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Slow Boat is simply THRILLED to announce we will be hosting exclusive Record Store Day instore performances from a solo Fazerdaze, whose recent alb...

  • Merch, baby - MERCH!!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Well, lordy, lordy me - what have we here, then?! After running an (entirely unscientific) Insta poll, we here at Slow Boat have listened to the vo...

  • How Did I Get Hear? #16 - Matthew Bannister on Fairport Convention's "What We Did On Our Holidays"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    As a teenage Beatle freak, there was no place for folk music in my life. Folk was seventeen verses and Joan Baez's flutey warbling. Just give me so...

  • How did I get hear? #15 - Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Simon Sweetman on Todd Rundgren's "Something/ Anything" Todd Rundgren’s 1972 masterpiece, Something/Anything is his third album, though his first u...

  • FELIZ NAVIDAD!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    WELL... Not sure entirely where it went, but we appear to have almost completed another lap of the sun, and it's less than a week til Christmas!! C...

  • How did I get hear? #14 - Jeremy Toy on John Coltrane's "Coltrane Live At Birdland"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    In the early 2000’s Martin Winch had just released “Espresso Guitar” and I was playing in melodic hardcore bands and freaky free jazz funk bands, s...

  • How did I get hear? #13 Mike Houlahan on Cocteau Twins' "Treasure"

    by Jeremy Taylor
        It is 1984, and we are in a suburban bedroom in the most suburban of Wellington suburbs, Tawa.   Earlier in the year, on the first day of the ...

  • Fat Freddy’s Drop x Wellington Chocolate Factory x Slow Boat Records!!!

    by Jeremy Taylor
    Slow Boat is thrilled to announce that we are to host the Wellington launch of Fat Freddy’s Drop’s brand new album “SLO MO” – along with their col...

  • How did I get hear? #12 - Ron Sexsmith on Warren Zevon’s self-titled (second!) album

    by Jeremy Taylor
    I’d been aware of Warren’s music for quite some time (mostly things like “Werewolves Of London” or “Carmelita”), but for some reason I never took a...

  • How did I get hear? #11 - Paul Johnson on Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy"

    by Jeremy Taylor
    I was handed this album as a “$7.99 SALE!” bestickered CD by my therapist in 2002.

 I’d started my dream job as a graduate, got some money in my...