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The Buster Stiggs Story – Part Two

May 20, 2025
As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 10, Winter 2016.  The Swingers auditioned a lot of drummers. I was playing rhythm guitar, but none of the drummers seemed right.…
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The Buster Stiggs Story – Part 1

May 20, 2025
By Buster Stiggs As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 09, Autumn 2016 Buster Stiggs was a member of The Suburban Reptiles, The Swingers, Models and played with the…
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An Interview with Geoff Cochrane.

May 13, 2025
By Richard Langston As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 16, Summer 2017 For years Geoff Cochrane has sat in a chair in his small city council flat in…
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My Time In New Zealand Music. Part One

May 13, 2025
By Jim Wilson, as published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 10, Winter 2016. I was fourteen when my parents moved from Dunedin to Christchurch in 1966. We rented a…
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An Interview with: Peter Jefferies

May 5, 2025
By Richard Langston As published in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 15, Spring 2017  Peter Jefferies released his last solo album 16 years ago. After more than two decades in…
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Introducing:

April 29, 2025
This one’s for the musicians hauling gear up narrow stairwells. The artists scraping together rent and instrument money. The ones printing their own posters, booking their own shows, hustling for…
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An Interview with Andrew Boak

April 28, 2025
By Andrew Schmidt Featured in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 13, Autumn 2017 Reissues on American labels? Reunion shows and punk covers bands? Who’d have guessed New Zealand’s punk rock…
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An Interview with Shayne Carter.

April 21, 2025
From Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader Vol. 11, Spring 2016 By Richard Langston. Shayne Carter—to use a term he likes to use himself—is a ‘dude’. He started writing songs when he…
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An Interview with Hamish Kilgour

April 6, 2025
By Richard Langston As featured in Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader, Vol. 6 Winter 2015 Thirty-five years after forming his first band in Dunedin, New Zealand, Hamish Kilgour remains a creative…
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The Future is here.

March 31, 2025
Our poster frames are a staple of the urban landscape.  But as demand continues to grow for custom-coloured and creative frames, so does the environmental cost. Traditional repainting is an…
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Flare Festival: Big Impact in Christchurch.

March 31, 2025
Christchurch has long been a city where creativity thrives in unexpected places. From its post-quake resurgence to its reputation as a hub for street art, Ōtautahi has embraced murals, graffiti,…
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Insights from a campaign with: Garage Project

March 19, 2025
Garage Project have never been ones to play it safe. When they saw an opportunity to showcase their Tiny Hazy IPA in Christchurch, they jumped on it, bringing creativity, strategy,…
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Artist Spotlight: Ghostcat

March 18, 2025
Everyone once in a while, you’re blown away by something. A delicious meal, a baffling dad joke, and if you’re in the capital, the wind. As cultural connectors, we’ve been…

Poet Spotlight: Margaret Austin

March 4, 2025
Tell us about your journey into poetry. When did you start writing, and what drew you to it? In 1980, I found myself in Athens. I’d lived the previous five…
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A Tinkers Cuss – Jim Wilson

February 23, 2025
I’ve not been well in a while. I can scarcely breathe to walk across the room and it seems like every day I have a brand new symptom. I’ve had…
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A summer sales surge, if you use this hack.

February 21, 2025
January and February can be dry months (and not just for farmers). By the time the post-Christmas sales are done, many marketers might be tempted to shut up shop. But…
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Introducing:

April 29, 2025
This one’s for the musicians hauling gear up narrow stairwells.…
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