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Finlay Macdonald
Finlay Macdonald is a widely respected contributor to newspapers and publications throughout the country. He is the former editor of NZ Listener, commissioning editor for Penguin Books, and now writes columns, social commentary and edits the Sunday Star-Times books pages.
He has also worked for Metro Magazine, and as a writer for television, including documentary, serial drama and comedy.
At this year's Qantas Media Awards, Finlay was given the Best Overall Columnist Award for his weekly Sunday Star Times column. British-born Macdonald recently joined Radio Live, hosting a Sunday morning show with a focus on current events, politics and reviews. |
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Chris Brown
Chris Brown is co-writer of 8 Tribes: The Hidden Classes of New Zealand. Chris calls for an end to the myth of the “typical New Zealander” and gives us a new vocabulary to talk about New Zealand in the twenty first century. |
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Gordon McLauchlan
Gordon McLauchlan is a journalist, social commentator, historian, and columnist. His recent book The Lie and Times of Auckland argues Auckland is, and always has been, different to the rest of the country, “more cosmopolitan, more mercantile, more susceptible to change and modernity”. |
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Michael Barnett
Michael Barnett is beginning his second term as an ARC councillor, representing Auckland City. In his first term he was Deputy Chair, Passenger Transport. Michael is Chief Executive of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, is married to Kim and has two children. He chairs the Auckland Children's Santa Parade Trust and is chair of the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust. Michael is passionate about Auckland and making sure it is a great place to live, work, play and visit |
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Don McGlashan
Don was born in 1959 in Auckland, studied English and Music at Auckland University, and played French Horn and percussion in the Auckland Sinfonia from 1979-82.
He was a member of the percussion ensemble From Scratch from 1979-86, and was drummer and singer with Auckland agit-punk band Blam Blam Blam from 1980-82. Together with Harry Sinclair he formed the innovative music/theatre/film act The Front Lawn in 1985, and they performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988 and 1989, as well as in Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand until disbanding in 1990.
Don was singer and primary songwriter in The Mutton Birds from 1991 to 2002. The group signed to Virgin Records UK in 1995, and were based in London from then until 1999, touring all over the world.
Don returned to NZ in 2000, and lives in Auckland with his wife, dancer/writer Marianne Schultz, and their two children, Louis and Pearl.
Most recently he has completed the movie score for Toa Fraser's debut feature film "No 2", and will soon be creating the score for the upcoming Screenwork TV series "Orange Roughies". He is also completing the upcoming debut album (May 2006, Arch Hill Recordings) with his new band The Seven Sisters - SJD on Claire DuncanBass, John Segovia on pedal steel guitar, and Chis O'Connor on drums. |
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Claire Duncan
Claire is lead singer of Auckland-based indie pop-folk act, Dear Time's Waste. Claire will perform a
show of her enchanting songs accompanied by guitarist Rikki Sutton (Trees Climing Trees). |
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Manuel Bundy
To many Manuel Bundy can be considered the Godfather of HipHop in NZ. He began Djing professionally in 1989. About that time he held a residency at Auckland's De Brett Hotel and soon became a regular at the infamous Box nightclub. He was invited to host the Australian DMC Dj finals and became known for his scratching and mixing skills.
In 1995 Manuel began to dabble in production and contributed on Nathan Haines debut album ‘Shift Left’. Scratched on Dam Native tracks ‘Horrified One’ and ‘Behold my Kool Style’ and laid ‘cuts’ on Tim Finns ‘Runs in the Family’.
Manuel BundyIt was about this time in 1995/96 that he hooked up with Andy Morton aka Submariner. He began to work on various projects. Scratching on various tracks for Ermehns album ‘Samoans Pt 1’ and Breaks Coop’s album ‘Roofers’ and co producing on King Kapisi’s award winning single ‘Subcranium Feeling’. In 1998 he toured with OMC when ‘How Bizarre’ took the planet by storm.
Other remixes and co productions followed with Che Fu, Freestyle, Nuvonesia and One Million Dollars. More recently he has released his own EP under the name Solephonic and his debut album nearing completion. | |
