Grant McDougallGrant McDougall

Grant McDougall lives and works in Dunedin. He likes music, literature, art, sport and has had his home-brew praised by Hilary Barry.

Review: David Kilgour is playing it cool

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Grant McDougall reviews Kilgour’s new solo album, Bobbie’s A Girl, which sees him reflecting on the deaths of his friend and former bandmate, Peter Gutteridge and his own mother, Helen Kilgour. There is a passage in Shayne Carter’s excellent recent autobiography, Dead People I Have Known, in which he describes David Kilgour’s reaction to one … Read more

Bigger than both of us: A Blam Blam Blam fan finally sees them live 

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Blam Blam Blam’s records stunned Grant McDougall’s adolescent mind. He reflects on their impact and what it was like to finally see them live on their reunion tour, which brings them to The Others Way tonight in Auckland. It is winter, 1981. I am 12 and in Form 2 at Gisborne Intermediate. The Springbok tour … Read more