Category: Writing about Music
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Rona Love
Set in Wellington, New Zealand. Rona Love is the story of an ex-housewife who pursues her dream of becoming a musician, a songwriter, an artist. Welcome to a world, where the only things that matter are the Arts and music. Real and fictional bands mingle and blend into a modern cocktail of the Hero’s journey.…
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NZMusician Album Review Coco Solid: Cokes
Reviewed by FRANK EGGLETON COCO SOLID: COKES Having teamed up with a number of producers and guest MCs over the past six years, ‘creative multi-disciplinary’ Jessica Hansell, aka Auckland-based rapper Coco Solid, has threaded this mixtape together with her own wit and burn style of rapping to the fore. COKES by Coco Solid ‘Cokes,’ is brimming with collaboration…
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Rona Love; A Writing Experiment
In between drafts of the Rona Love novel, I decided I needed to know a little bit more about some of the characters. Especially about Rona, Audrey and Silvias relationship. I wrote this short story set in 2011, to see what I could find out about why they hadn’t spoken very much in a decade.…