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It’sexerted.agreat lesson in life that no matter what has already been achieved, no matter the legacy already written, the real reward remains in the necessary task of simply doing. Gavin Bertram, Editor.
5 / FOREWORD: Editorial Editor Gavin gavin.bertram@alliedpress.co.nzBertram Art Director Sam Myhill Contributors George Kay Advertising sales manager Nic Dahl (03 nic.dahl@alliedpress.co.nz479-3545) Marketing CharlotteCONTACTThompson Email: DigitalOnline:south@alliedpress.co.nzwww.southmagnz.co.nzedition:issuu.com/alliedpressFacebook:@SOUTHMagNZInstagram:@south_magazine_nz The lifestyle magazine for southern New Zealanders South General enquiries to South magazine, PO Box 517, Dunedin 9054. Phone (03) 477-4760. Published by Allied Press Ltd, 52 Stuart St, Dunedin 9016. © 2022. All rights reserved. Printed and distributed by Allied Press. ISSN 2815-7605 (Print); ISSN 2815-7613 (Online). Aramoana.atCarterShayne supplied)(Photo:
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Look at Max Gimblett, the New Zealand abstract artist who’s been resident in New York since the 1960s. With a pronounced Zen influence, Gimblett’s work continues to evolve in enthralling ways as he approaches 90. It’s fair to say the artist has reached enlightenment, yet he’s still grafting - chopping wood and carrying water. Then there are the two creative spirits featured in this issue of South. Writer Owen Marshall and musician Shayne Carter have both forged deep catalogues of revered work over decades. They’ve both carried on chopping and carrying, understanding that the creative well doesn’t offer its riches without substantial effort
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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. (Zen Proverbsproverb)can often be read in multiple ways, their meanings bent to different ends. Almost riddle-like in their ambiguity, they conceal as much as they reveal. The above Zen proverb has predictably been used, with no sense of irony, as a motivational quote for business people. And sure, it works on some shallow level in that realm. But it performs far more profoundly when applied to the creative arts, where the application of one’s life experience becomes ever more valuable over a sustained career.
Contents SOUTH MAGAZINE #003 SPRING 2022 Under the light: Shayne Carter on Dimmer’s classic 2001 album. FOREWORD Regional View: Timaru short story OwenmasterMarshall.26 Art feast: The Dunedin Arts Festival returns this spring. 31 32 FEATURES5 Editorial 7 Big Picture 10 WHAT’S ON: Five things to do this spring. 12 BIG ASK: With VoxSmart’s Global Chief Operating Officer Adrienne Muir. 14 FOOD: The best delicatessens around the regions. 15 TRAVEL: With Vincent George. 16 BOOK: Kathy Morrison writes about 12 years on Quarantine Island. 17 SHOPPING: A selection of great ideas for the home. 21 FASHION: Spring fashion from local retailers. ENDNOTES 46 Loose ends. I WaS ThERE: Led Zeppelin’s 1972 visit to Auckland. hOW Ya GOING? Dunedin expat Mark Dickel writes home. ONCE UPON a TIME: George Kay on Simple Minds in 1982. 4342 44 Oamaru born and raised. www.topflite.co.nz Feeding New Zealand’s smallest family members since 1974.
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Cool, greyed and classic coastal blues such as Resene Nepal, Resene Frozen, Resene Blue Moon and Resene Midnight Express remain popular picks for interior decorating. But just like many of today’s popular hues, there’s plenty of indication that warmer varieties are set to make a big splash.
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Timeless and classic
The world’s all-time favourite colour, blue, is always relevant. Evocative of the sea and sky, no hue is said to be more relaxing or restful. Blue stands for integrity, power, tranquillity and health, and is considered as beneficial to the mind and body. Plus, our natural light and relatively temperate climate make blue an appropriate and evergreen choice for any room. Whether on your walls, floor, ceiling, furniture or accessories, there’s simply nowhere blue won’t do. And given Resene’s wide-ranging and diverse options, it’s a hue that makes it easy for us to keep finding fresh and exciting alternatives to the shades of previous seasons.
There is a good reason classic designs are called timeless. These colours and shapes evade the normal waxing and waning of trends because they quite simply always look good, no matter what year or season it is. However, it doesn’t mean that classic designs don’t continue to evolve. Today, traditional colour palettes and motifs are being blended with more pared down, contemporary forms rather than overly fussy or shapely furnishings, resulting in a hybrid style. Perennially popular hues like dusty blues, greys and whites such as Resene Duck Egg Blue, Resene Forecast, Resene Regent Grey and Resene Sea Fog continue to endure in these settings, with carefully curated pops of hues like red, periwinkle or navy, like Resene Fahrenheit, Resene Ship Cove and Resene Blue Night, being used to add extra style points and interest.
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Muted tones remain in vogue today, but our colour forecast shows things are about to get much more vibrant. After a couple of bumpy years wrought with uncertainty, the world is slowly opening up again – and with that comes the triumphant return of fashion weeks, major design shows and plenty of exciting new product launches. With so many of these events having been cancelled in recent years, colour and trend forecasting has been tricky. Here’s a taste of some of the new trends to help you get inspired for your next decorating project:
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Homeowners are increasingly bringing in touches of on trend colours and designs to evolve their home’s design and keep it current meshing old with new. Decorating is becoming more of a journey, where favourite treasures are collected and curated with touches of colour, rather than starting with a clean slate. New elements need to elevate and enhance the existing room décor. Added dimension Adding more texture to a space is a sure-fire way to up the interest in a room, and tongueand-groove panelling and battens are highly fashionable ways to add literal dimension to your walls and ceilings. However, decorators are coming up with more creative methods to incorporate them, moving past more predictable grids or dado rails in favour of designs with a clever twist or a more freeform attitude upcycling old picture frames to create a unique look. Wall and panels in Resene Reservoir, floor in Resene Hint Of Grey. Pendant lamp from Good Form. (Project by Kate Alexander, image by Bryce Carleton)
Given the natural beauty inherent to wood grain, it’s no wonder that timber walls, ceilings, flooring and joinery are all trending.
Tropical motifs Fronds from palm to monstera continue to grace wallpaper and textiles and are a chic way to bring elements of the outside in. But more and more, we’re seeing these patterns appear in more unexpected colour combinations. Rather than typical emerald and ivy greens, it’s designs with pretty pastel pinks, blues and beiges that have been popping up on our radar. Try Resene Wallpaper Collection 218741 on a statement wall or use it to cover dresser drawers or a door for an airy look. Or try your hand at hand-painting some palms on to a headboard or coffee table using an array of Resene testpots to bring instant elegance to your bedroom or lounge.
The decade-long obsession with motifs, colours, materials and silhouettes popular in the 80s has waned and made way for 1970s influences. This is playing out through both colours but also with textures through earthy, handmade artisanal elements like pottery, macrame and dried floral arrangements.
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When it comes to colours, look to browns from suede to espresso like Resene Dusty Road and Resene Felix, rich adobe terracotta like Resene Sante Fe and Resene Tuscany, avocado greens like Resene Avocado and Resene Lichen and biscuit beiges like Resene Double Biscotti and Resene Half Akaroa to bring today’s tones to your walls, flooring and furniture.
The word terracotta is borrowed from Italian and translates to ‘baked earth’, so it doesn’t get much toastier or earthier than these clay-coloured hues. It’s the oxidisation of the iron rich soils used to create the porous pottery which shares the moniker that you can thank for the colour, which is undeniably warming when used in quantities both large and small.
Wall in Resene Wallpaper Collection 47404, floor in Resene Thor, coffee table in Resene Pale Leaf (background), Resene Thor (vine leaves), Resene Swamp (large simple leaf) and Resene Green Meets Blue (palm leaf), cane chair in Resene Surf Crest and hand chair stained in Resene Colorwood Driftwood. Artwork from Nood, hand chair from Bali and Teak. (Project by Megan Harrison-Turner, image by Bryce Carleton) Channel the warmth of the Mediterranean with a subtly mottled paint effect in earthy hues. Wall and large vase in Resene Wild West with Resene FX Paint Effects medium coloured with Resene Sante Fe, floor in Resene Blank Canvas, table and daybed base in Resene Korma, arch in Resene Wild West, plant pot in Resene Sand, pendant lamp in Resene Alabaster, artwork in Resene Nero. Rug, cushions and glass from Città, bag from Blackbird Goods. (Project by Gem Adams, image by Wendy Fenwick)
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SeptemberQueenstown7-10 The Remarkables and Coronet Peak will come to life next week when the Snow Machine festival kicks off. Music, snow, and après adventure awaits over four days and three massive nights, with DJs on the slopes, and the party at the main arena in Queenstown. The line-up includes The Avalanches, Ball Park Music, Client Liaison, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Hermitude, and The Presets.
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2.05pm, Sunday, September 4 Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin Having generally performed well in last year’s stunted Bunnings NPC, Otago are looking to go even better this time around. The season started with a heartbreaking drop goal loss to CountiesManukau, but with a strong squad and better results since there’s reason for optimism. Tomorrow’s match is against the Bay of Plenty Steamers, whose fortunes have fluctuated in recent years.
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7pm, Saturday, September 3 Regent Theatre, Dunedin
The Royal New Zealand Ballet returns to Dunedin with their production of Cinderella, choreographed by master storyteller Loughlan Prior, with a new score by Clare Cowan, and designs by Emma Kingsbury. Set within an enormous, embroidered tapestry, the ballet is a kaleidoscopic collision of detail and colour. There’s also Tutus on Tour to look forward to on November 9.
It’s good to be bad, for George Thorogood and his Delaware Destroyers. The uncompromising blues rock band are celebrating 45 years of rocking on this tour - as well as 40 years since the Bad to the Bone album was released. “We’ll always be the baddest band in the land! George says. “Expect our best on this tour because that’s what you’re gonna get.”
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What inspires you? I don't think I have one person or thing that inspires me. But over the years I have been raised by, friends with, and worked alongside some incredible women. Their guidance and support have got me through some incredibly challenging times, and they continue to inspire me every day. In some way, this Village of Women has helped shape me into who I am today. And what annoys you? Lateness. I get it, I know that sometimes it's inevitable, but it annoys me. I think this comes down to being raised by a police officer, and my grandfather was a Major in the New Zealand Army. Being late was never acceptable. I would not dare. Being on time is my greatest superpower, but also can be my greatest annoyance when sitting there waiting. I now try to use this time to my advantage and see it as a win, especially when I am early, which if I am honest, annoys me about me.
New Zealander Adrienne Muir has spent decades working overseas in the global capital markets and financial technology sectors. When she started at VoxSmart in London in 2017, the business communications surveillance and analytics firm had seven employees. Now Muir oversees a worldwide team of 160 from Queenstown, serving over 100 international clients.
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With my family, doing the simplest things. While I hate to admit it, I am a bit of a Tiger Mum, I love to have my kids around me; I know I have only a few years left before they want to discover their independence, so I am selfishly snatching it while I can., When (other than now) was the best time of your life? I went backpacking for five months around Europe at 21. I had not even gone flatting and hit Europe with my eyes wide open ready to learn. What I learned along the way was, without a doubt, fundamental to who I am today. What are you looking forward to? Being back in New Zealand after so many years, I am looking forward to the basic things, like summer holidays, beach swims, and family gettogethers. I also look forward to watching my kids grow up the “kiwi” way. They were both born in London, and I did not fully appreciate that I was bringing English kids back to New Zealand. It has been a change for them, but they are adaptable and loving the New Zealand life.
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I have always loved April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtney. If you see it in a second-hand bookstore, grab it. It's a beautiful love story written so eloquently. And my go-to favourite Karaoke song and (oddly) first dance at my wedding is Irene Cara’s Flashdance - “what a feeling”. It's not a bad movie either!
After 20 years in London, it must be the fresh air and incredible, unobstructed view of the stars. I know it's a cliché but we are so lucky. • Adrienne Muir will speak at the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce’s Women in Business morning tea on September 15. Where/when are you happiest?
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I think everybody should… … be loved unconditionally at least once in their life. Whether that be by a parent, grandparent, or child. Right now, it feels like there are many conditions surrounding relationships and love, and having safe, unconditional love is a grounding feeling everyone should have. conjunction with any other
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Understand your child's temperament, and all will become clear. Once I clocked my kids' characters, I started understanding the parenting game and so much more about those I worked with. Temperament and character is a game changer when you drill down on it. Who do you admire? My Uncle Max. He is an excellent example of someone who found what they loved and made it into his job. He started filming on an 8mm camera when he was 13, filming animals at Wellington Zoo. He went on to hone his camera skills and love for film directing, producing, and filming around the globe, becoming one of the biggest producers of wildlife on the planet. He is also one of the nicest people I know. I love him dearly and could listen to his stories all day.
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The Fridge (9 The Mall, Cromwell) Open Monday-Saturday, this butchery and deli also offers a home-kill service. There’s top quality meat, and the deli has a range of cheeses, salami, condiments, and more.
Food Taste Nature (131 High St, Dunedin) an organic supermarket and café, Taste Nature stocks a vast array of goods including canned food, produce, condiments, dairy, frozen, confectionery, and a whole lot more.
Raeward Fresh (53 Robins Rd, Queenstown) a Queenstown institution, this supermarket is where the locals have shopped for almost 20 years. as well as superb meat and produce, there is a full service deli and a café.
Taste Matters (28 Windsor St, Invercargill) a gourmet deli that’s been open since 2005. They offer free-range meats, herbs and spices, coffee, specialty teas, pasta, sauces, dressings, cheeses, and more.
Gibbston Valley Cheesery and Deli (1820 State Highway 6, Queenstown) The Gibbston Valley cheesery and deli in the Old Winery offers a full range of Whitestone cheeses, and quality goods from many other local producers.
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Riverstone Kitchen (1431 Glenavy-Hilderthorpe Rd, Oamaru) Riverstone Kitchen is best known for Bevan Smith’s excellent restaurant, but there is also an excellent range of deli products on offer, including their own condiments.
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Marbecks Foodstore (Wall St Mall, Dunedin) along with their popular café, this Wall Street Mall fixture offers an extensive selection of quality deli products for the larder. and they’re open daily.
Fedeli (47 Helwick St, Wānaka) a takeaway deli, Fedeli has a huge range of provisions from Central Otago, plus great home-made meals, and a selection of cabinet items perfect for picnics.
This country’s earliest delicatessens were opened by European immigrants, offering an array of delicious specialty foods. The idea took half a century to really gain a foothold, but now most centres are served by at least one good deli.
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Late last year the idea of chartering flights between Christchurch and Brisbane emerged. Many Australian travellers were stuck in New Zealand, but with the South Island still Covid free it was possible to fly to Queensland. After navigating the logistics involved, spreading word through various channels, and a massive leap of faith, the idea became reality. In December 2021, two aircraft took 337 Australians home. It was hugely nerve wracking.
Another win was helping New Zealand father Robert van der Heyden see his terminally ill son in Perth. Rosann worked for two weeks on that, when trans-Tasman travel restrictions made it challenging. That story ended up on 1 News’s Good Sorts. When thousands of New Zealanders were trying to get home, Rosann became the “free advice travel agent” on the Grounded Kiwis website.
From chartering trans-Tasman flights, being an advice hub for kiwis overseas, or reuniting loved ones under impossible odds, the Dunedin travel agent was there.
“I’d be answering people’s questions,” she says, “giving them reassurance, pointing them in the right direction, and booking their flights if I could.”
“It was all about what can we do?” she says. “What can we offer people that’s not going to penalise them more than they already have been?” Having moved what they could home before lockdown, they navigated uncertain times with the realisation that people needed reliable information. With a lot of money tied up in airfares, those people just wanted facts. Along with their travel brokers, Vincent George Travel resolved to fight for them, Aunpaid.bigvictory was having Virgin Australia credits extended to New Zealanders, with the help of the Travel Managers group they’re associated with. They also helped get groups of unvaccinated people home, and with reunions that appeared impossible.
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The menu has something for every taste, with classics including seafood chowder, blue cod, lamb shanks, steak, venison, and vegetarian options.
EVEN over 20 years since it opened, Speight’s Ale House Dunedin still trades on the same ‘‘generous to a fault’’ approach it was originally founded on in 1999. And at the Speight’s Ale House Dunedin, the beer is matched to a menu of equal quality.
Food has always been a major part of the offering, with a focus on Southern fare, hearty servings, and value for money.
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As for the discovery of the thermal springs, it is believed early Māori first happened on the springs while passing through. While they never settled there, the discovery of ancient native umu (ovens) indicated travellers' camps or signs that they had stopped and taken rest.
To celebrate the occasion, Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa is taking a trip down memory lane to see where these memories first began.
The site became a public establishment in 1883 when the Crown fenced it off for the paying public, and by 1884, work was underway to build a bathhouse.
events are being planned to acknowledge all those who have supported the pools over the last 150 years
“From the get-go, it was the support of the community that made the thermal springs the tourism destination it is today. We can’t thank our community enough for helping us reach this milestone,” says Graeme.
Graeme says the pools are steeped in history and at the heart is a community spirit and support that can’t be beaten.
For some 15 years prior to 1978, community groups had to fight to secure and source Government funding to develop the pools into a larger-scale complex that would enable people to reap the health benefits of the thermal springs.
From school camps to wedding anniversaries, and from significant birthdays to escaping the city, the memories that have been created in Hanmer Springs are endless and span Thisgenerations.yearmarks the 150th anniversary of Hanmer Springs’ first dressing shed (technically 151 years but like all good celebrations last year, Covid got in the way).
Historians identified it was some years later, and in 1859 when an announcement in The Lyttelton Times marked a discovery of “hot water springs” by Mr William Jones. While he believed he was the first to ‘make them generally known’, in the same year Julius von Haast wrote about a visit to Hanmer Basin thermal springs in his journal.
The anniversary commemorations kick off in September and visitors to the pool complex will be able to see the historic shed pictured on its original site and capture themselves in historic Communitydress.
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It’s not often you come across a person who doesn’t have awesome memories of Hanmer Springs.
According to historians, the first dressing shed was built in Hanmer Springs in 1871 by Mr John Fry. He built the shed and put in steps to the hot springs so his customers of the Jollies Pass Hotel could benefit from the thermal pools.
Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa general manager Graeme Abbot says the village has certainly come a long way since the first single dressing shed sat on a very exposed site in the Hanmer Basin. Segregated nude bathing was the order of the day in the early years and hoisting the appropriate clothing (skirt or trousers) up a pole to indicate the gender of the moment controlled this. Later, separate pools were introduced and, finally, mixed bathing – but swimmers had to be clothed of course.
26 / FEATURE: Books Timaru writer Owen Marshall has produced another collection of short stories with the masterful Return to Harikoa Bay. By Gavin Bertram. provincestheinOut
That’swheregenerallyIstart with a story, and where I finish too.”
“I don’t know whether I’ve acquired more wisdom, but I have acquired more experience,” he muses. “And I think that helps - the more situations that you’ve experienced, then I think the more authentically you can draw on that in your writing. I haven’t made a lot of money from writing, but I’ve had some Amongexperiences.”those have been trips to China and Antarctica, and a period at Menton in France on the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. It’s all grist for the creative mill for Marshall, enabling him to experience other cultures, and also affording the distance to view his home from different perspectives. That has particular value, as his writing is generally set in the corners of New Zealand mostly ignored by the often urban obsessed literary world. Marshall reveals the intriguing inner worlds of his many characters in quiet, forgotten crevices of the provinces. With short story collections like Return to Harikoa Bay, 1995’s Coming Home in the Dark, or the 1979 self-published debut Supper Waltz Wilson and other New Zealand Stories, he’s called upon a hugely divergent cast to beguile the reader.
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Unsurprisingly, character is regularly the starting point for his often darkly shaded tales. “They come in different ways; sometimes from something you’ve read, sometimes from something you’ve observed,” Marshall explains. “I generally start not with a plot, or even a theme, but with a person, with the idea of a character I wanted to develop. Sometimes I start with a place. But I’m mainly concerned with people, the exploration of character and motivation. That’s generally where I start with a story, and where I finish too.”
“I didn’t have long periods of time to develop a novel as I was full time teaching,” he says. “So I think the short story suited the lifestyle I had at the time. Novels came later in the 1990s, when I became a full time writer.”
BORN in Te Kuiti in 1941, Marshall spent his boyhood in Blenheim and Timaru. After studying at the University of Canterbury, and National Service during the 1960s, he settled into a teaching career in Oamaru. From a bookish family and being a keen reader, the desire to write became impossible to ignore. Two unpublished novels followed, before Marshall channeled his creativity into the shorter form of fiction.
“Places bring back people, people bring back places, and both conjure the cinema of your past.”
THE QUOTE from Owen Marshall’s sad, bleak story Dancing on Another Planet also alludes to the author’s approach to his craft. The Timaru writer has a reservoir of eight decades of life to draw from. And with the 33 short stories in the recently published collection Return to Harikoa Bay, the supply is showing no sign of drying up anytime soon. But then, he has remained at the top of his game for going on 50 years now, producing a trove of novels, short stories, and poetry, making a huge contribution to New Zealand literature.
Gradually he had work published, and a rise to prominence after backing his talent through the selfpublication of his first collection. Although he’s equally interested in the longer fiction of novels, and poetry, it is short stories with which Marshall has become most widely known in New Zealand. He finds that interesting, as his novels have been his most successful works, “commercially, and probably critically as well”. Marshall has had two novels published overseas but no collections of short stories - and he won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards for the 2000 novel Harlequin Rex. But he’s happy to be associated with the short story form, and part of the canon of writers from this country who have excelled at it, including Katherine Mansfield and Frank TheSargeson.latter was an early admirer of Marshall’s work. In Sargeson’s last ever review in 1980, the Auckland writer stated that Supper Waltz Wilson and Other New Zealand Stories was “as fine a book of stories as this country is likely to see”. That praise was later underlined by the late writer Michael King when he called Marshall “quite simply the most able and the most successful exponent of the short story currently writing in New Zealand”.
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“I enjoy the challenge of it, because short stories are not easy,” Marshall says. “There’s a certain economy necessary - an economy with the number of characters you’ve got for a start. And often you’re looking for ways to reveal the character quite vividly. You need powerful little glimpses which allow the reader to understand and appreciate the nature of the character.”
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Over the last decade or so he’s been busy with novels including the best selling The Larnachs, Love as a Stranger, and 2019’s Pearly Gates.
There has also been 2020’s Landmarks, where Marshall’s creative collaboration with Central Otago friends Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner was renewed. As the writer says, the trio all have an affinity with the lower reaches of the South Island that has long been reflected in their work. It’s a landscape that has guided his writing in almost equal measure to the characters that inhabit it.
Marshall says when he began writing in Oamaru he felt somewhat isolated as there weren’t others to talk to. But as his work was published he got to know other writers through festivals and other literary events, and he counts prominent writers including Fiona Kidman, Vincent O’Sullivan, and Fiona Farrell as friends and confidants.
28 / FEATURE: Books RETURN to Harikoa Bay is Marshall’s first new collection of short stories since 2009’s Living as a Moon, although last year saw The Author’s Cut anthology published.
“I’m a provincial writer and I’m quite happy with that definition,” Marshall says. “Naturally my settings tend to be provincial and regionalist. So where characters are is important for me, as well as who the characters are. I would consider myself to be quite a visual writer - I try to evoke the settings in which the characters operate.”
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“There’s a good collegial aspect to writers in New Zealand, and I find they’re generally supportive of each other,” he says. “Although I live in a provincial town, I do have a sense of belonging to a group of fellow writers.”
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HAVING taught at secondary schools for a quarter of a century, and subsequently lectured on creative writing at tertiary level, teaching remains a part of Marshall’s life. He runs writing workshops, and appreciates that it keeps him in touch with younger people and their interests. There’s more support available for young writers than when he began, Marshall believes. As well as numerous writing courses, there are also fellowships and grants available. The writer has benefited from that, with several grants over the years helping him produce books, including Return to Harikoa Bay. And last year there was a new experience, with the grim short story Coming Home in the Dark being made into a film. Director James Ashcroft’s thriller premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Having had stories optioned by filmmakers previously, it was a thrill to finally see one come to fruition later in Marshall’s writing Atcareer.80, he doesn’t push himself to work as much as he used to. But he still enjoys meeting and talking to people, reading, and the flexibility of writing across poetry, novels, and short stories. And at the heart of it all, his motivation for writing remains the same. “I write mainly for my own satisfaction,” Marshall reflects. “I write what interests me, what fascinates me, what challenges me, and then I hope that perhaps someone else will be interested in it.”
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There are symphonic concerts to blow the roof off the Town Hall when NZSO teams up with Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, NZ treasure Whirimako Black, and Dunedin’s own Shayne Carter; the alt-country neo-soul of Canada’s Frazey Ford; and the symbolic delve into the human experience with one of the country’s most in-demand dance companies, Atamira with their show, Te Wheke. Festival Director Charlie Unwin is super confident about the 2022 programme.
Everyone can look forward to spring knowing that Dunedin will come alive with a heady mix of theatre, dance, circus, comedy, music, talks, and visual arts.
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halfway through a now 40 year recording career, Shayne Carter created his masterpiece I Believe You Are a Star. This month his band Dimmer will perform the album at Dunedin’s Regent Theatre. By Gavin Bertram.
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THERE are countless rock’n’roll stories of geniuses gone mad in the studio, endlessly agonising over their next record. Shayne Carter would shy away from comparisons to the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Guns ‘n’ Roses Axl Rose, or My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields - for differing reasons. But in the middle of the Dunedin raised musician’s discography lies his own tortured triumph. Released in 2001, Dimmer’s I Believe You Are a Star took over three years to complete, and even longer to conceive. Largely recorded in isolation in a shed out the back of Carter’s Auckland flat, it remains one of his best-loved works. The album’s hushed confessionals, film noir moods, and taut funk abstractions haven’t aged over the 21 years since its release. Which is why the much-delayed 20th anniversary shows to be performed by Dimmer this month are so anticipated. These include a September 24 appearance at Dunedin’s Regent Theatre - a venue at which Carter has never played. He’ll also perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on October 15, as part of the Dunedin Arts Festival.
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WHEN he was editing his 2019 autobiography Dead People I Have Known, Carter received a gem of wisdom from a fellow writer - to “edit like a God”. The advice served him well during the final stages of shaping that book. It may well have benefited Carter 20 years earlier when he was labouring over I Believe You Are A Star. While he ultimately arrived at a brilliant destination, the journey was arduous. “I can’t say it was fun,” he reflects. “But writing songs is hard. I wish they all did appear miraculously divine, and once in a blue moon they will. Things don’t come easy, and you’ve got to work for it to be good. You’ve got to do the hard yards, and lots of people can’t be Sincebothered.”the late 1970s, Carter has remained a member of that small subsection who can be bothered. With multiple bands, collaborations, and solo work, he’s stayed on a true path through the capricious machinations of the music business. But it was through traversing the foul belly of the beast that Dimmer was formed.
"Humans aren’t perfect, and it’s quite often imperfectionstheandmistakesthataretheinteresting stuff.”
DIMMER emerged in the winter of 1994, with a Friday and Saturday night stand at the Empire Tavern in June. Back on home turf, playing with English bassist Lou Allison and his old friend and collaborator Peter Jefferies, Carter was in his element. Although those two shows were brief affairs, they were charged with an urgent energy.
“I BELIEVE You Are a Star is my best record,” Carter unequivocally stated in his book. “I had a point to prove and I didn’t let it go until it was right.”
The next few years saw a steady turnover of musicians as he explored the opportunities afforded by the new creative vehicle that was Dimmer.
In Auckland, Carter found several allies who would be central to the first Dimmer album’s ultimate release. Drummer Gary Sullivan, formerly of Christchurch band the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, became his main musical collaborator on the Andproject.the late Malcolm Black, former frontman of the Netherworld Dancing Toys and a record company executive, signed Dimmer to Sony Records. That led to a Portacom building being craned into the backyard of Carter’s Ponsonby flat. There, the musician spent his days - and nights - gradually chipping away at various song ideas.
“My main mission was actually to fall in love with music again,” Carter says of that time. “No matter what is happening that is the number one thing - you’ve got to be passionate about it and you’ve got to be feeling it. Because that is the gas behind what you do, and what makes it work, and what makes it good.”
And so Carter returned to Dunedin, where he worked on reconnecting with music.
Having started as a 14-year old punk with Bored Games at Kaikorai Valley High School in 1978, Carter progressed to the tragically ill-fated DoubleHappys. Then came Straitjacket Fits, formed in Dunedin in late 1986. Over the following seven years the band achieved much, touring the world, releasing acclaimed records, and signing to the huge Arista Butlabel.the much-loved Straitjacket Fits played their last show as an ongoing concern at the February 1994 Big Day Out in Auckland. They were bookended on that occasion by 1990s rock behemoths Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden, stealing thunder from “Iboth.was feeling quite fed up with the rock’n’roll machine at that point,” he remembers. “The whole trip with the Straitjackets, where we went right to the centre of the industry, I found quite disillusioning. A lot of things regarded as important had nothing to do with why I wanted to write a song or make a noise in the practice room.”
There were two singles, Crystallator and Don’t Make Me Buy Out Your Silence, and talk of an album. Then a move to Auckland after the southern winters became too Howevermuch. the semi-tropical, semigentrified climes of inner-city Auckland didn’t necessarily nurture creativity any more than the snow on Mt Cargill did. The period in Dunedin had left its mark though, with a clearer sense of the way forward, and the nucleus of several songs that would later be central to I Believe You Are a Star.
In his previous musical endeavors he’d never had the luxury of working towards a goal at his own pace. The home studio afforded that option, especially as Carter worked out how to use ProTools digital recording software in a rudimentary way. His lack of knowledge about the platform’s higher functions made recording a more arduous process, but it also informed the essence of the album.
“There was a kind of naivety to it, like the thing where I had to move everything around by ear,” Carter recalls. “That actually gave everything a really good wonky vibe and really added to its
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A Dunedin punk classic released on the Who Killed Colonel Mustard? EP after Carter’s high school band had split.
Die! Die! Die! Howye (2010) Having already produced the former Dunedin band’s second album, Carter offers up his unique guitar playing on the Form album.
Shayne Carter - I Know Not Where I Stand (2016) One of many beguiling tracks on The Offsider. This first album under Carter’s own name encompasses the musician’s interest in the classical canon.
Hidden Gems
Roger Carter, Roger Collie, Roger Wood - Flex (1991) Straitjacket Fits cover of the JPS Experience track, from the Roger Sings The Hits cassette released for Flying Nun Records’ 10th birthday. Straitjacket Fits - Brittle (1993) A quality appearance on the No Alternative compilation, alongside Dunedin’s Verlaines, and big names like Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden.
This Kind of Punishment - Holding (1987) A cameo appearance on a live track from the In the Same Room LP by the Jefferies brothers.
Shaynie and Fifi ‘95 - The Name of the Game (1995)
Doublehappys - Nerves (1985) Originally on the Cut It Out EP, Nerves also appears on the soon to be reissued Doublehappys’ compilation named after it.
A duet with Headless Chickens and solo artist Fiona McDonald on the Flying Nun Abba tribute compilation Abbasalutely. Shayne Carter - The Slide (2009) The Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox compilation was released to raise funds for Knox after his stroke, and included covers of many of his songs. The Adults - One Million Ways (2011) Carter slotted in perfectly with fellow NZ music royalty in the shape of Shihad’s Jon Toogood, and Fur Patrol’s Julia Deans.
Don McGlashan and The Others - Shackleton (2022)
Shayne Carter and Peter JefferiesHooked, Lined, and Sunken (1986)
Peter Jefferies Electricity (1994) Recorded in Dunedin, Jefferies’ acclaimed Electricity album includes several appearances from Carter. King Loser Exit the King (1995) On the expanded version of the noisy band’s Sonic Super Free HiFi LP, Carter and former Dimmer member Lou Allison shine on this track. Dimmer Dawn’s Coming In (1995) A subtle indication of Dimmer’s more introspective future direction, this was a B-side on the incendiary Crystallator 7”.
The B-side of the mournful Randolph’s Coming Home single that was a tribute to Doublehappys’ bandmate Wayne Elsey.
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As part of McGlashan’s band The Others, Carter makes a valuable contribution to this year’s Bright November Morning album. Some of the many sublime moments across the 40 years Shayne Carter has been recording have perhaps been overlooked.
Bored Games Happy Endings (1982)
The I Believe You Are a Star anniversary shows were meant to happen last year, but have been postponed twice.
Having moved back to Dunedin for a few years to write his book, Carter is now once again living in ThereAuckland.haven’t been many shows in recent times, but last year he once again played with Straitjacket Fits at the Flying Nun Records 40th birthday, and he’s also a member of Don McGlashan’s band The Others.
“Actually finishing something, whether it’s an album or a book, you’ve won straight away,” Carter says. “And with that record, there’s been enough time for it to be vindicated. If you’re a faker, time will find you out because there’s no truth for what you’re doing to stand on. I’m real happy with that record; it does what it set out to DIMMERdo.”
Of course, as Carter had previously discovered with that band, accolades don’t put food on the table. But while Sony ultimately dropped Dimmer from their stable after the album failed to meet sales expectations, simply completing it was victory enough for its creator.
“It will just be really good to go and play them,” Carter says. “We rehearse for them and get the show together, and then it gets canceled. And we convene six months later and we’ve all forgotten what we’re playing.”He’s gathered a contingent of musicians for this iteration of Dimmer. Along with previous members Gary Sullivan and James Duncan, there’s Auckland guitarist/vocalist Louisa Nicklin, Durham Fenwick from the Auckland band Guardian Singles, as well as Dunedin singer/ songwriter Neive Strang. Carter met Strang when he was mentoring young musicians at Logan Park High School, and has conscripted her to sing harmonies. And he was impressed by Nicklin’s work when he was judging a couple of hundred songs for the Silver Scroll Awards.
Carter worked with four different recording engineers to bring the album to fruition. It was finally released in May 2001, peaking at number 13 on the New Zealand charts. And that same year Carter’s Straitjacket Fits tune She Speeds was voted number nine on a list of New Zealand’s 100 greatest songs.
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character. Quantised music is the enemy of soul. Humans aren’t perfect, and it’s quite often the imperfections and mistakes that are the interesting stuff.”
That distinctively individual sense of timing is evident throughout I Believe You Are a Star, which spans smoldering introspection and fiery aggression. Although there are no weak moments, highlights include the perfectly titled Smoke, muted funk of Evolution, explosive dynamics of Powercord, and the driving momentum of Seed.
“It was made to be a record,” Carter says. “And as a record I think it’s really strong, but representing that live is certainly a challenge. It operates sort of by minimalist rules, and it’s got lots of intricacies to it as well which makes it cool.”
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Dimmer: I Believe You Are a Star 20th anniversary tour. 7.30pm, Saturday September 24. Regent Theatre, Dunedin.
As Carter ruefully notes, there’s no small irony in him torturing himself over the details of a song called Sad Guy. That level of attention illustrates how committed to his craft he remains even after 40 years of making music. At the core of his ongoing motivation is the fundamental magnetism of being in the eye of the storm.
• Shayne Carter and the NZSO: Bright Sparks. 7.30pm, Saturday October 15. Dunedin Town Hall.
“There’s the satisfaction of seeing stuff through and actually completing it.,” Carter says. “But my biggest buzz is still just standing in the middle of a noise that I really like. That’s still the best thing for THROUGHme.” the mediums of music and writing, Carter is also still connected to the same punk spirit that inspired his first creative impulses. He simply enjoys witnessing and making art that “shoves it right in their face”.
But even with such talent behind him, some of the tracks from I Believe You Are a Star have never been performed live. That’s led to a lot of work translating them for the stage.
One of the hardest has been album closer Sad Guy, a droning, elegiac instrumental based on a jam session dating back to Dimmer’s formative years in Dunedin.
Having done it for so long, he’s philosophical when surveying the entirety of his career “It’s just gone on and on,” Carter muses. “And your life when you’re a kid gets further and further away. But I said to a friend ‘life is short’, and he said ‘no it’s not’. And I thought, ‘yeah… good point!’”
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The bassist from Manchester was a member of the first line-up, recording the first 7”, Crystallator Peter Jefferies Legendary New Zealand musician and Carter collaborator who was a foundation Dimmer member.
The Die! Die! Die! drummer played on two of the Degrees of Existence tracks.
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Dimmer has included a lot of musicians over the years, and many of them have connections to Dunedin.
The current Robbie Burns Fellow in Dunedin, SJD solo musician played on two tracks of the second album.
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Tex Houston Dunedin sound engineer who worked on the Crystalator 7” at Fish St Studios, and other recordings since.
The former HDU drummer was a core Dimmer member for the band’s final two albums, There My Dear and Degrees of Existence.
Lou Allison
Matt Middleton Former Dunedin noise musician, was an early Dimmer member but never recorded.
The Dead C drummer was also in the band for a period, recording the B-side Pacer.
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Neive Strang Singing harmonies with the current Dimmer, the Dunedin songwriter has her own Neive Strang Band.
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The writer knew the show’s promoters Barry Coburn and Robert Raymond. A press conference with the band was cancelled, but late that night Colbert was invited to a party by Coburn. He was greeted by Led Zeppelin’s frontman with a girl on each arm, and the words, “My name’s Robert Plant, and I’m the greatest rock’n’roll singer in the world”.
Rolling Stone magazine has called Led Zeppelin “the biggest band of the Whichseventies”.isironic, as there was once a mutual hatred between the publication and the English heavy metal pioneers.
When Led Zeppelin made their only New Zealand appearance in 1972, late Dunedinite Roy Colbert met the band. I was
“It appeared in Rolling Stone as a bit of an anti-Led Zeppelin story,” he remembered. “They made them look a bit silly.”
The late Dunedin writer and record store owner Roy Colbert would often travel to Auckland for shows. That was the case in February 1972, when Led Zeppelin made their only ever visit to AtAustralasia.thetime the rock behemoths were touring their classic fourth album that included the monumental Stairway to Heaven. As well as being at their creative peak, Led Zeppelin’s feud with Rolling Stone was also at its zenith.
He also met drummer John Bonham who was raucous and terrifying, and guitarist Jimmy Page, who was the opposite. As a self-confessed “mad record collector”, Colbert quizzed the musician about the numerous recording sessions he’d been involved “Hein. was really polite to me,” Colbert said. “It was only later I realised he didn’t really want to talk about that stuff at a party at two in the morning, with women hovering around him.”
Although not a particular fan of Led Zeppelin, he enjoyed their show at Western Springs the following day, which was attended by about 20,000 people. Opening with the powerful Immigrant Song, the band performed a set that included Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Dazed and Confused, and Communication Breakdown.
“It was just amazing,” Colbert said. “I don’t think I’d been to a three hour concert before. I thought it was definitely the peak of their career.” He wrote about meeting the band for Rolling Stone, who’d previously been refused interviews. But the magazine used his words to reride the band.
Dunedin-bred Mark Dickel played basketball all around the world over his 20 year career. He was a stalwart of the national Tall Blacks side for much of that time, playing more than 100 games for his country. That included appearances at two Olympic Games, and 20 years ago this month, at the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the United States. They stunned world basketball by finishing fourth on that occasion, beating the likes of Puerto Rico, China, and Russia on the way to the semi-finals. There they were beaten by eventual world champions Yugoslavia.
I am good. Enjoying my time with my wife and watching my kids grow up way too fast. Where are you and how’s the weather? I live in Las Vegas, in the desert. So the weather is hot and dry. What’s been keeping you busy recently?
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Now 45, Dickel is living in the United States with his family. So, how are you going?
Just coaching basketball. And helping to raise three teenage boys. When you have visitors, where do you take them? We usually go to the strip to see shows, and to the outlets so that they can shop. What do you miss about New Zealand? I miss the people. And I miss the food.
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Simple Minds’ classic album New Gold Dream (81-8283-84) turns 40 this month. Dunedin’s George Kay met the band in 1982 for Rip It Up magazine.
It was to be a large, stadium fit.
“I heard a buzz of chat before we came in,” he explained later, “but we’re not razzamatazz or showbiz, we’re warm people so we can’t go ‘hiya folks, good to see you all’.” He’s joined by guitarist Charlie Burchill and keyboardist Michael MacNeill, and they’re all looking the worse for wear after a night on the tiles, with bassist Derek Forbes missing in action after losing a battle with a bottle and a half of bourbon. But the drinks weren’t for first night celebrations, more for a night to forget.
The dream was on hold, for another night. Flashback to a phone interview I did with Jim in mid-August, and he felt that with New Gold Dream the band’s time had come.
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“Those people could have been cut in half up front as there was no way to push the people back. Yet the start of the gig was fantastic and if we had felt we played crap then we would have been back to justify it. But we felt a certain duty not to go out for an encore to make the audience look at itself.”
Postscript: I last met Jim Kerr at the 1984 mini-Sweetwaters Festival in Christchurch, where Simple Minds were on the bill with The Pretenders and Talking Heads. He was in good heart, singing the virtues of The Pretenders’ star, Chrissie Hynde. They married later that year, according to the Women’s Weekly. Living the dream. Scottish band
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Mainstreet was packed, it was a hot spring night. The band opened with favourites like I Travel before delivering the jewels of New Gold Dream.
Ecstatic vibes means the band has arrived with vocalist Jim Kerr out front stunned speechless by the fanfare.
“We’re aware in the last year of the huge expectations on us. We’re looked on as one of the top new bands in the world, and that’s demanding. But we’re sure that the new album is much stronger and melodic than anything we’ve done before. So this the start of a second period for the band to take us through the next few years. That’s what the 81-82-83-84 refers to.”
It’s RTC’s reception pad, Ponsonby, October 18, 1982, the day after the first of two gigs Glasgow’s next big things, Simple Minds, are scheduled to play at Mainstreet to showcase their new album, New Gold Dream.
Sweat in Bullet, Celebration, Glittering Prize, Someone, Somewhere, in Summertime, and, this time, two encores, Love Song and Room, were all aired. Even Chris Bourke was almost impressed. After the gig it was back to Mascot Studios with champagne and beers and the band was glowing. Jim was crowing.
The place is packed with record company execs and rock press cognoscenti, with Radio With Pictures’ cameras and Karen Hay holding court in their own press room, leaving yours truly and Rip It Up to jostle for a bench in the kitchen.
“It’s not bravado or being egotistical, but I know by the end of the year New Gold Dream has to be one of the top three albums of the year. NME said last month that Simple Minds are trying on the hat of success to see if it fits them.”
So, second night, Mainstreet, no pressure. No problem, the band delivered the promised miracle and the same set as night one, but this time to an adoring crowd of like minds.
“There were these f**kin’ yobos who were making it hard for everyone,” Kerr recalled. “Some of the atmosphere from the people up front reminded me of the outbacks of Europe. Like BurchillItaly.” takes up the narrative.
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