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Nick Bollinger

Born

Wellington, New Zealand

Genre

History, Music

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Nick Bollinger was born 1958.

He attended Clifton Terrace Primary School and Onslow College. He describes his tertiary education as ‘very motley, not worth mentioning’.

Nick was introduced to Beethoven, Gilbert & Sullivan and the Fireside Book of Folk Songs as a pre-schooler. His life changed at the age of five, when he heard the Beatles’ recording of ‘Twist and Shout’. He went on to become a bass player and a member of many bands, from Rough Justice, Ducks, Pelicans, Living Daylights and Laconics, to Wellington’s iconic Windy City Strugglers.

Nick worked as a postie and trained as a teacher before finding an outlet for his musical obsession as a record reviewer and rock journalist. He is a regular contributor to the New Zealand Listener and h ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 127 ratings · 28 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Goneville 4.18 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Listen to Pop Music 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Essential New Zealand Albums 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Dream It's Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand by Emma Johnson (editor), Giovanni Tiso (editor), Sarah Illingworth (editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goneville: A Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And Goneville? It is a name that kept coming up as I was writing this book, and each time its meaning shifted a little. It's almost Gonville, the suburb of Whanganui where Johnny Devlin, New Zealand's first rock 'n'roll star, grew up, so arguably the birthplace of New Zealand rock 'n'roll. But it is also an imaginary place that might be every obscure New Zealand town that every obscure New Zealand band ever played.”
― Nick Bollinger, Goneville

tags: kiwi, memoir, music, new-zealand

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“But if there was a mood of paranoia amongst the counterculture, the spies appeared to be gripped by their own fantasies of the 'reds under the beds' variety. Keith Locke, son of communists Elsie and Jack Locke, discovers that the SIS had a file on him when he was eleven years old. In it it had been noted such suspicious activities as attending a Christchurch performance of the Moscow Circus.”
― Nick Bollinger, Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand

tags: aotearoa, counterculture, kiwi, new-zealand-history, paranoia

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