I'd say that the Christchurch Call is useful for social media platforms, but since then we've seen an explosion of right-wing social...

Until the recent age of identity-based themes, it was part of the bargain of plays or films that they might present views that the...

No, I'm not joining you. I hate academia and think your lives aren't better than mine. I don't need a PhD to be a great composer, and it...

They have no legal right to my voice, to my songs or to my script. Dave's the person I'm writing with, not Red Scare. - James and Cass,...

I don't want to play guitar in public at the moment and this won't change until apologies occur. Ultimately, this is how it all shook...

While people are moaning, Glenn Gould did the same thing. I've always had an ambivalent feeling about celebrity culture. Something that...

Well, it's prestige streaming nowadays, but you get the point. The Dakumentary is essentially another streaming show, regardless of which...

Obvious answer. These people have never met me, yet attempted to steal my music. That's why I don't give a shit about their opinions....

It starts off doggedly naturalistic, but by the later seasons there's a constant surreality that is often entertaining. 13 seasons is a...

There is some debate over the general value of iwi-led corporate bodies, but nevertheless that is how most of the reparations have been...

I don't know how you lot got it into your heads that you had a right to produce my feature script, but I think that you proved that...

Fuck you, you knuckle-dragging overconfident troglodytes. Or is that troglo dykes ? Smug and demanding, You harangue before You check...

Now that I am about to inherit some fuck you money, the time has come for the NZ film and theatre industries to treat me in a fair,...

Well, that was how I felt about Barbie, but I didn't mean the diva bit. She had the kind of life going on that I thought I wanted,...

My background is part-Greek, and I grew up partly overseas, so we got on well. I like to say that John taught me about rhythm. How to...

I mean, it's still in my email address, but I identify with my writing career more these days. As a guitarist, the most interesting...

Perhaps National could use their penchant for urgency to do some good and advance the Human Rights kaupapa that keeps me coming to...

The Perfumed Garden is my return to scalar melodies. Shipwrecked isn't really scalar: it's chord-defined. However, that depends on the...

Yeah, I stuck my neck out there for cannabis reform. Specifically for my dealer and grower friends. People were a mix of supportive and...

I think that was a two-way street re: influence. Peter might have seen Dak Headroom, while I obviously nicked some bits for The Dakumentary.