New Zealand music pioneer Doug Hood died earlier this week after a long illness.
He had a distinguished career in New Zealand music as an engineer, manager and later a promoter for local and international touring bands. Hood engineered The Clean's legendary Boodle Boodle Boodle EP for Flying Nun in 1981 on a primitive 4-track with Chris Knox, and went on to engineer the Flying Nun's Dunedin Double EP, a 1982 compilation which was the recording debut of The Chills, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings and the Stones.
He became a soundman, then a booker for artists like Violent Femmes, Billy Bragg, New Order and John Cale and Iggy Pop.
Hood then brought the Big Day Out festival to New Zealand in 1994.
Charlotte Ryan calls former music journalist Colin Hogg to reflect on Doug’s musical legacy.
Simon Grigg, Roger Shepherd and Doug Hood at the Apra Silver Scroll. Photograph taken at the Powerstation, Auckland, in the late 1980s. Photo: Murray Cammick/Audioculture
