AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers is marking New Zealand Music Month with a series of frames featuring some of New Zealand’s most creative musical writers and performers.
“Music has never been a guaranteed route to fame and riches in Aotearoa,” says Phantom’s Jamey Holloway.
“Sure, there are the Finns and Lordes who connect with big audiences worldwide and make us all bloody proud,” he says.
“At Phantom Billstickers we’re thrilled with their success – but at the same time, we’d love to see more attention focused on those acts whose songs may be inspired but whose sales rarely trouble the global charts.
“That’s why we’re marking New Zealand Music Month by featuring some of New Zealand’s most creative musical writers and performers in our poster frames.
“When excellent photography meets musical inspiration, we’re in our happy place.”
“Photographer Hayley Theyers took the pictures of some of our best – but maybe not best-known – musicians. She visits them in their homes, studios and neighbourhoods, and captures images that linger in the mind.
“Over the last few years she’s taken portraits of everyone from Chris Knox to Demarnia Lloyd. This year, she worked with 14 New Zealand musicians whose music should be more widely known: Jon McLeray, Anita Clark, Ary Jansen, Chris Heazlewood, Francisca Griffin, Graeme Humphreys, Joanne Billesdon and Sharon Saab, John Segovia, Nadia Reid, Violet French, Jon Halvorson, Alistair Galbraith, and Lucinda King.
“We’re also acutely aware that posters are a visual medium. Images as strong as those created by Hayley Theyers deserve the widest possible audience. So when excellent photography meets musical inspiration, we’re in our happy place.”
Hayley Theyers’ Francisca Griffin poster is at 327 K Rd by Fort Greene Café.
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