Issue 08: Summer 2021/22

  • Book review: Sled Dog Racing in New Zealand – A Photographic Odyssey

    Book review: Sled Dog Racing in New Zealand – A Photographic Odyssey

    By Teresa Angell We wrote about dog racing in Issue 2 of 1964 (March 2020) and featured photos by Teresa Angell, so we were pretty excited to see that she has published a full-length book on the subject. Sled dogs are just the best. Woof! Teresa explores our national sled dog scene from the sport’s…

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  • Music Review: Silhouette – Alba Rose

    Music Review: Silhouette – Alba Rose

    Silhouette is the debut EP from Alba Rose, AKA Rosie Spearing. Originally from Wānaka and now based in Wellington, Rosie is known as the lead singer of the indie-pop band Corduroy. She also collaborated with composer and producer Bravo Bonez on the trip-hop project ARLS.  Alba Rose is her first solo project, and it continues…

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  • watching us, watching them

    watching us, watching them

    1. Toroa ingoingo. In 1937 there was one pair on the Peninsula, marked and wrapped by Doctor Lance Richdale, breeding. Better banded, perhaps, than starved, egg-sucked, stuck in ship masts or dismantled for muffs, tobacco pouches, cigarette holders and walking stick handles. 2. Now they flock to the camera like Kardashians and we sit and…

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  • Book Review: A Bunk for the Night

    Book Review: A Bunk for the Night

    by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint If you’ve read the original Bunk for the Night, you know it’s more than a guidebook. It’s escapism. It’s fantasy. It makes you get your map out, check your gear and plan a trip. It is the ultimate conversation starter. Aotearoa has a vast range of backcountry…

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  • Failure is inevitable

    Failure is inevitable

    Or is it? LYN MCNAMEE LOOKS INTO THE REVENANT, A RACE SO HARD THERE ARE NO WINNERS, JUST FINISHERS. It’s dawn in the Nevis Mountains. A piper stands silhouetted on a ridge, his melody drifting towards a host of tiny lights in the tussocks below. Each pinpoint is a contestant — twenty-four audacious adventurers seeking…

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  • Summer camp

    Summer camp

    Snapshots from a holiday hotspot. You leave town early to beat the holiday traffic. The car is packed tight with camping gear, the overflow strapped to the roof. The kids were bouncing off the walls, but by the time you pull into Wānaka, everyone is asleep. You’ve left your worries behind. — Every year, around…

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  • Homeland security

    Homeland security

    What a small town in the Waitaki Valley has to do with universal health care. Speaking at an event marking its 70th anniversary, then-Prime Minister Helen Clarke talked about what the 1938 Social Security Act meant to New Zealand.  More than just a piece of legislation, it stood for an idea. It was born from…

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  • Sound and vision

    Sound and vision

    What’s a nice Post Rock band like EchoKnot doing in a place like Queenstown? THE LIST OF ECHOKNOT’S THREE MEMBERS TELLS YOU A LOT. JOE BARRON-COWIE IS ON “GUITARS, KEYS AND PROGRAMMING”, SCOTT KENNEDY DOES “GUITARS, KEYS AND VISUALS”, WHILE ANDY PATERSON TAKES CHARGE OF “BASS AND NIHILISM”. CHECK. THERE IS NO LEAD SINGER, THERE…

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  • Time killers: The 1964 guide to hut games

    Time killers: The 1964 guide to hut games

    How to win friends and battle boredom in the WiFi-less purgatory that is a backcountry hut. A BACKCOUNTRY HUT IS A TOUGH PLACE FOR AN INTROVERT. NO MATTER HOW REMOTE, THERE’S ALWAYS THE CHANCE YOU’LL BE SHARING YOUR SHELTER WITH STRANGERS, AND YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO THEM. Huts are a social…

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