Chris Bourke is a musician, historian, editor, writer and producer whose work covers the first recordings to arrive in NZ to new beats being made now. He's an avid listener to music from here and around the world and ferrets out the stories of how it's made.
He's currently the content director at Audioculture: The Noisy Library of New Zealand Music. He joins Jesse for Bookmarks!
Songs:
You Never Give Me Your Money - the Beatles
Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
Rebel - Toy Love
Books:
Lost Highway: Journals and Arrivals in American Music - Peter Guralnick
Nowhere to Run: the Story of Soul Music - Gerri Hirshey
Paradise Reforged - James Belich
Films:
The General (dir Buster Keaton, 1926)
Lost in the Garden of the World (dir Tony Williams, 1975)
Don't Let it Get You - (John O'Shea, 1966)
Chris Bourke Photo: Supplied
