LINK – 1975. Rare unreleased song “Break the Ice”
Sep 24BREAK THE ICE – was to have been Link’s follow up single to the top 20 hit ‘Only Time Could Let Us Know’ – but it was never released and lost in archives for 35 years. This video clip was made possible with the help of rock photographer KEVIN HILL who captured stunning images of the band from that era. Coupled with the rediscovered music and production credits provided by Dave Kennedy – the song is able to surface and be shared with the...
Live – Kevin Borich
Jun 15KEVIN BORICH photo by C A Poulter, from 2011 TOUR DATES Get Kevin Borich music at this link Kevin Borich Music!
Nambassa Festival 1978-81
Jun 14Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in New Zealand. They were music, arts and alternatives festivals that focused on peace, love, and an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition to popular entertainment, they featured workshops and displays advocating holistic health issues, alternative medicine, clean and sustainable energy, and unadulterated foods. What we consider mainstream living today was pretty radical in the 1970s. The New Zealand hippie movement was part of an international phenomena in the 1960s and 1970s, heralding a new artistic culture of music, freedom and social revolution where millions of young people across the globe were reacting against old world antecedents and embracing a new hippie ethos. Specifically New Zealand’s subculture had its foundations in the peace and anti-nuclear activism of the 1960s where hippies were actively trying to stop New Zealand’s involvement in the Vietnam war and to prevent the French from testing nuclear weapons at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia in the Pacific Islands. The January 1979 three-day music and alternatives festival held over Auckland anniversary weekend attracted over 75,000 patrons making it the largest event of its type in New Zealand and the world (per capita). Timeline: 1977 January. Waikino music festival at Bicknel’s farm, Waitawheta Valley, between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 5500. 1977 December. Parade from Queen St, Auckland, to nearby Albert Park for a free concert. Attendance 10,000. 1978 January. Nambassa three-day music, crafts and alternative lifestyles festival on Phil and Pat Hulses’ 400-acre (1.6 km2) farm in Golden Valley, north of Waihi. Attendance 25,000. 1978 October. Nambassa winter road show toured the North Island promoting the 1979 festival. 1978 December. Two-day gathering in Maritoto Valley for the Mother Centre and friends. Attendance 1500. 1979 January. Nambassa beach festival touring family roadshow – Whangamata, Waihi Beach, Mount Maunganui and Coromandel. 1979 January. Nambassa three-day music, crafts and alternative lifestyles festival on Phil and Pat Hulses’ 400-acre (1.6 km2) farm in Golden Valley, north of Waihi. Attendance 75,000 plus. 1981 January. Nambassa five-day celebration of music, crafts and alternative lifestyles culture on a 250-acre (1.0 km2) farm at Waitawheta Valley between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 15,000 – well down on the 1979 festival. Reacting against the huge 1979 event which was deemed by many of the counterculture movement too large and not reflective of the alternative message, the organizers purposely ran this festival on...
The Wong Way To Marry & The Nambassa 1979 Rock Festival on TVNZ
May 26Colleen Poulter’s book “the Wong Way to Marry” on 1970s culture down under and the Rock Festivals of the era was featured on TVNZ (Asia Downunder). You can get signed copies of “Wong Way” and C A Poulter’s latest installment “Trippin’ the Wright Way” by contacting the author direct on Facebook. Now also available as...
Stoned Guitar
May 08Stoned Guitar is the second album by New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct. It was released in 1970 and featured the guitar talents of Billy TK senior. The cover featured a painting by New Plymouth artist Michael Smither, “Two Rock Pools”. Photo courtesy of Billy TK (Senior)