Shihad - Live at Aotea Square (2005)
Legendary live performance.
First guitar, 2004
Squier California Series Stratocaster. Cheap with a god-awful neck, but it fitted the undergrad budget and was good enough to learn the basics on.
Hayman at Albar, ~2008
Surely Dunedin’s greatest band.
2000s pre-Spotify flashback
The bombproof Aiwa system (it's probably still working somewhere). CD towers and wallets galore. Tight.
Back from the dead
After 14 years of sitting in storage I finally pulled the trigger on recovering the files off an old hard drive from the university era. Surprisingly, having not been powered on for that entire period, 99% of the files were recoverable (cheers DataLab).
A proper time capsule so far. Exhibit 1: ~2007, the trusty Epiphone Les Paul, and for some reason long lost to history, a “Pakehas know how to party” t-shirt:
