Shayne CarterShayne Carter

Shayne Carter is a musician, most famously of Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. His memoir Dead People I Have Known (VUP) has just won the general non-fiction category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Please welcome to the stage: Shayne Carter

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Dead People I Have Known, a memoir, just won the General Non-Fiction category at the New Zealand Book Awards. The judges were Hocken librarian and documentary and cultural heritage collections advisor Sharon Dell, bookseller and reviewer Stella Chrysostomou and journalist Guyon Espiner. Their comments, per the press release:    “From the first page, Shayne Carter … Read more

‘All I had to do was listen’: Shayne Carter on how he fell deeply in love with classical music

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The long journey that turned Shayne Carter, one of New Zealand’s great guitar heroes, into a classical piano music fan. Like most people under 70, I’d always found classical music a bit of a bore, a wing of the museum I hadn’t found the key for, the property of blue rinses bussed in from the … Read more