Myles

May 2025 My introduction to playing music in a band started out with a big fat lie. A band at my high school needed a bassist. I told them, ‘yeah, man, I play bass. I know exactly what I’m doing when it comes to bass.’ All of a sudden I was a bassist. That weekend, […]

Charlotte

May 2025 I grew up in mid Canterbury, kind of rurally, and went to school down there. I always had an interest in performing and entertaining, especially in music. I’ve had lots of amazing music teachers over the years and they’ve all had a big impact on my life and perspective. I moved up to […]

Andy and Vic

May 2025 We met right out of high school when we both studied at the Christchurch jazz school. These days we work on a lot of different music projects but the project that I front as a singer is called The Response, and the project that Vic fronts is called Imperial April. People often ask […]

Raine

May 2025 “I actually calculated this the other day. I’ve spent a third of my life in the Philippines, a third of my life in Hawke’s Bay, and the later third of my life here in Christchurch. I’ve been here for about seven years. I studied photography at Ilam and then I also did a […]

Hadani

April 2026 “I’m running ten marathons in ten days dressed as a chicken. It’s raising money for the Speed Freaks, a charity that uses running, walking and connection to support those in recovery and with experience of mental distress. I’m a volunteer coach with the Speed Freaks. I’ve seen the effects of movement, getting social […]

Jonty

April 2026 “When I was five, my family left England on a boat, and over the next three years, we sailed around the world before arriving in New Zealand. We checked out all these awesome locations, the Galapagos Islands, Palmerston Atoll, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama Canal. Alongside that, we had all these books about animals. […]

Adam and Anna

March 2025 “I went to Australia in 2010 with the intention of being there six months. I got offered a full time job as an assistant winemaker, so I decided to stay. Our winery wasn’t set up for processing our whites, we did it at a contract facility which was Adam’s work and I met […]

Helen – Part 2

March 2025 “Looking back and realizing just what a totally different life I had as a child, I think part of why boarding school was so hard was that nobody actually understood. Boarding school taught me how to live alongside, work alongside people that I now have no contact with, so in life, there was […]

Helen – Part 1

March 2025 “I grew up in the North Canterbury back country. My father managed a high country station called Esk Head up the South Branch of the Hurunui River. We lived in a sod house with a thatched roof. Outside had corrugated iron because there weren’t people to re-thatch any longer. We had a diesel […]

Noel

“I took to bikes from a very young age, I got into Penny Farthing riding when I was 12. There were Penny Farthing races happening in Oamaru and I asked a guy if I could have a go on one. Half an hour later, I won my first race, and six months later, I built […]