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Salem Mahia, Winner of Best Song Play It Strange 2025

Salem Mahia Randall from Gisborne Boys High School takes out this year’s Play It Strange song contest with his composition Girl Named Abigail. This is...

Play It Strange Supports Budding Young Songwriters

Play It Strange is a charitable trust that promotes and inspires songwriting for NZ secondary school students. We provide pathways for creativity through songwriting. That is...

Buster Bloodvessel: Still Raising Hell After 50 Years of Bad Manners

It’s not every day you get to sit down with a living legend, but today, I had the distinct pleasure of talking to none...

Andrew Roachford and the Immaculate Soul Musician

Andrew Roachford is bringing his Then and Now Greatest Hits tour to New Zealand in May 2025, and Red Raven had a chat to...

Jared Gomes Long Journey with (Hed)P.E.

Jared Gomes founded seminal Post Punk Californian band (Higher Education) Planet Earth (aka (Hed)P.E.) in 1994, with guitarist Wesley Geer. He is still going...

Mark Hamilton and the Legacy of Ash

Mark Hamilton, the bass player for Northern Ireland Post-Punk band Ash, had a chat to Red Raven on a career which is over 30...

Heilung Are Conjurors of Ancient Pagan Music

Heilung are reanimators of ancient times in music and touch on the essence of the primordial spirit. The essential trio nucleus founded in Copenhagen, Denmark...

Greg Barnett Reflects on The Menzingers. 5 August 2024

The Menzingers are a cult Punk band from Scranton, Pennsylvania originally, and have become established in Philadelphia. Greg Barnett, guitarist and singer, chatted to Red...

Hugh Cornwell is Touring Australasia from July: Interview 9 July 2024

Hugh Cornwell we are all familiar with as the guitarist, songwriter and co-lead singer for the notorious and infamous hard men contained in the...

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