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An Interview with Geoff Cochrane.

By Richard Langston As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 16, Summer 2017 For years Geoff Cochrane has sat in a chair in his small city council flat in…
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My Time In New Zealand Music. Part One

By Jim Wilson, as published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 10, Winter 2016. I was fourteen when my parents moved from Dunedin to Christchurch in 1966. We rented a…
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An Interview with: Peter Jefferies

By Richard Langston As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 15, Spring 2017  Peter Jefferies released his last solo album 16 years ago. After more than two decades in…
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Introducing:

This one’s for the musicians hauling gear up narrow stairwells. The artists scraping together rent and instrument money. The ones printing their own posters, booking their own shows, hustling for…
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An Interview with Andrew Boak

By Andrew Schmidt Featured in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 13, Autumn 2017 Reissues on American labels? Reunion shows and punk covers bands? Who’d have guessed New Zealand’s punk rock…
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An Interview with Shayne Carter.

From Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 11, Spring 2016 By Richard Langston. Shayne Carter—to use a term he likes to use himself—is a ‘dude’. He started writing songs when he…
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An Interview with Hamish Kilgour

By Richard Langston As featured in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader, Vol. 6 Winter 2015 Thirty-five years after forming his first band in Dunedin, New Zealand, Hamish Kilgour remains a creative…
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The Future is here.

Our poster frames are a staple of the urban landscape.  But as demand continues to grow for custom-coloured and creative frames, so does the environmental cost. Traditional repainting is an…
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Flare Festival: Big Impact in Christchurch.

Christchurch has long been a city where creativity thrives in unexpected places. From its post-quake resurgence to its reputation as a hub for street art, Ōtautahi has embraced murals, graffiti,…
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Insights from a campaign with: Garage Project

Garage Project have never been ones to play it safe. When they saw an opportunity to showcase their Tiny Hazy IPA in Christchurch, they jumped on it, bringing creativity, strategy,…
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Artist Spotlight: Ghostcat

Everyone once in a while, you’re blown away by something. A delicious meal, a baffling dad joke, and if you’re in the capital, the wind. As cultural connectors, we’ve been…

Poet Spotlight: Margaret Austin

Tell us about your journey into poetry. When did you start writing, and what drew you to it? In 1980, I found myself in Athens. I’d lived the previous five…
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A Tinkers Cuss – Jim Wilson

I’ve not been well in a while. I can scarcely breathe to walk across the room and it seems like every day I have a brand new symptom. I’ve had…
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A summer sales surge, if you use this hack.

January and February can be dry months (and not just for farmers). By the time the post-Christmas sales are done, many marketers might be tempted to shut up shop. But…
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Use hands to get inside heads.

The mind-changing power of hand-painted murals. It’s one of the ironies of our age that today’s technology makes it child’s play to transmit billions of images to billions of eyeballs…but…
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A Tinker’s Cuss by Jim Wilson

Murray was one of my very best friends for such a long time. He died around five years ago. He had some kind of aneurysm at a traffic light in…
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The Little Festival with Massive Impact

In light of the fact that The Little Street Art Festival is happening RIGHT NOW, we caught up with Reuben Woods, creative mastermind behind the festy to share some golden…
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Introducing:

This one’s for the musicians hauling gear up narrow stairwells.…