Jerry Jeff

I’ve spent some time up in Arthurs Pass over the years, working, playing, adventuring, singing, writing, walking, hoping, praying, believing, drinking, chopping, sitting, cleaning. First eastern gig out of chch was there, second album recorded there, gathered some stories, some…

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more western

What the goddamn hell? two posts in two days...this what a few months of gentle rising will do for your 38th favourite folk singers dough head brain!...fighting fit we're raising all flags...just not a white one! as well as our… Read more

xmas xtravangzasmas

I n what will promise to be a new yearly event (bi decade at least!) your brothers and sisters in the eastern are going looking for your toys to go and deliver on xmas day! join us! bring a toy… Read more

ol' dungers

Like two old dungers rolling down a stock car track waiting for the inevitable smash, yer boy McGrath and his ol' road buddy Lindon Puffin are up for another round, punch drunk and ready to mix a million metaphors in… Read more

The Easybeats

I sat at the table and learned friday on my mind by the easybeats, it was 3am, I sounded awesome. I played it again in the day time, this time loud as my neighbours were awake at work whatever. I… Read more

The Songs

shows and shows and more shows and more shows done and more to come, no retreat no surrender, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember etc. This week its nelson/mapua at an ol' haunt, to go haunting again… Read more

The Time before time

There was a time before the internet, before the personal computer, before the electric typewriter, before writers, before types, before the sun, before fire, before the scrawling of ink on the walls of caves, before it all. It is in… Read more

The Hunter

Tonight I’m playing with one of the the best to ever do it, Al Hunter, in his home town of Woodstock just east of Hokitika, in one of the best homes for The song in the country, The Woodstock hotel. … Read more

The Wizard

They called him hedge,
On the surface cause he was wild and wooly?
But maybe it was like how they call me blue because I had red hair? Where the opposite is true?
Because redwood or mountain or moon would…

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The Winner

Christchurch industries fair, 1982 Adam McGrath wins a trumpet for dancing like Elvis Presley in a children’s talent quest, starting an addiction to trumpets and a desperate need for approval followed by a desperate sense of embarrassment. Breens Intermediate, 1989 … Read more