29 Apr 2023

The Detail's Long Read: Counting the Beats

From The Detail, 5:00 am on 29 April 2023

This is The Detail's Long Read - one in-depth story read by us every weekend.

Grant smiles at the camera. He is sitting at a small desk covered in boxes of cassette tapes. The room he is in is covered in colourful music posters and shelves of CDs.

It's "impossible to overstate" Grant Gillanders' contribution to New Zealand music. Photo: Victoria Birkinshaw/North & South

This week, it's Counting the Beats by Garth Cartwright, published in North & South's May edition.

You can read the article, with accompanying photos, in North & South.

Meet Grant Gillanders, the man painstakingly working his way through New Zealand’s entire popular music back catalogue — and reissuing rare sounds which would otherwise be forgotten.

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