Goneville - by Nick Bollinger
Nick Bollinger Photo: Supplied
New Zealand writer and musician Nick Bollinger talks with complete candour about his unorthodox childhood and his obsession with music in this award-winning 2016 memoir.
Bollinger was just 18 years old when he went on the road with the band Rough Justice and its smoky-voiced, charismatic leader Rick Bryant.
The next two years were sometimes uplifting and exciting, other times enervating and depressing.
Goneville is both a coming-of-age story and an intimate look at the evolving music scene in '70s New Zealand.
It shows how this music intersected - sometimes violently - with the prevailing culture, in which real men played rugby, not rock.
Nick Bollinger draws on his own experiences, seeks out key players and unsung heroes and vividly portrays a divided country, set to shatter apart for a generation.
Listen to Nick Bollinger's conversation with Kim Hill about Goneville here.
Credits:
- Written and told by Nick Bollinger
- Adapted by Katherine McRae
- Produced by Duncan Smith & Nick Bollinger
- Studio and recording engineering by Marc Chesterman & William Saunders
- Published by Awa Press
Nick Bollinger Photo: RNZ
Nick Bollinger is a music writer and broadcaster, and has played bass in many bands, from Rough Justice to the Windy City Strugglers. He worked as a postie and trained as a teacher before finding an outlet for his musical obsession as a journalist and critic. A music columnist for New Zealand Listener for over 20 years, since 2001 he has also written, produced and presented music review program The Sampler for Radio New Zealand National. He is the author of How to Listen to Pop Music and 100 Essential New Zealand Albums.
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