This is how we do hand painted. Adidas X Phantom, one of the greatest murals Aotearoa has ever seen. There’s a new player on K Road. Impossible to miss, a…
Q & A with C. K. Stead. C. K. Stead is an award-winning novelist, poet, literary critic, and essayist. He served as New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2015–2017, has received…
Bollards, Posters, and Art That Sticks: How Our Network Powers Music and Creativity on the Streets. If you’ve walked through Christchurch’s Arts Centre or wandered along Cuba Street in Wellington,…
Blog. Poet Spotlight: Emma Neale Emma Neale — is a novelist, short story author, poet, and editor based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her seventh poetry collection, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Otago…
Blog. Face the Music: Lipstick. From our start back in 1982, Phantom Billstickers has been all about celebrating NZ music. Word is, Lipstick is a band to watch, and their…
Fleur Wickes - its beautiful here Fleur Wickes makes art that speaks quietly—but lands deep.Her words are the kind you want to pin to your wall, carry in your pocket,…
NZ’s renowned contrarian street poet gifted us his thoughts in a recent interview exclusively for Phantom Billstickers. Howdy David! Where are you and what are you up to? Howdy back…
Meet Ruby Kush. Christchurch’s own Rebecca Robin is the voice behind the name — a singer-songwriter blending raw emotion with cosmic vibes. Her debut album Stardust dropped last year, a…
You’re about to wrap up three years as New Zealand Poet Laureate. What has the experience been like? It’s been a dizzying, heart-filling, unexpected and joyous experience that I’ll be…
As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 10, Winter 2016. The Swingers auditioned a lot of drummers. I was playing rhythm guitar, but none of the drummers seemed right.…
By Buster Stiggs As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 09, Autumn 2016 Buster Stiggs was a member of The Suburban Reptiles, The Swingers, Models and played with the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
