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  • 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...

  • How did I get hear? #10 - Reverend Christopher Orczy on Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard, A True Star"

    by Jeremy Taylor
      In the August school holidays of 1989 I was 17 and working in the upstairs 2nd  hand department at Echo Records in Christchurch. My music tast...

  • How Did I Get Hear? #9 - Steve Braddock on Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

    by Jeremy Taylor
    I blame Mike Flowers.  Honestly.   1996 had kicked off a pretty cool year.  I was in Year 11 and hadn’t really been interested in music.  I liked...