It was the last day of the 2002 New Zealand Fashion Week. It was also laundry day for me so all my cool clothes were in the process of being washed and dried. I managed to score tickets to the big public event, “Style On Stage”. I considered asking one of my manfriends to go [...]
Growing up, things were ok. Then when I was about nine years old, my parents decided that I needed some extracurricular activities. Instead of asking me what I wanted to do, they decided for me, and I found myself being dragged along to do a bunch of stuff I wasn’t particularly interested in. It seems [...]
On the corner of Bow Street and Wainui Road in Raglan, is the Tongue and Groove cafe. Inside, on the wall of the corridor next to the toilets, are posters advertising bands that have previously played there. Amongst all the posters is a hand-designed, photocopied A4 poster for a show that took place on 25 [...]