New Zealand Aotearoa music in fiction, fact and verse
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Join us for this music-focused event featuring debut novelist Nick Sceats, poet and music journalist Simon Sweetman, and Richard Langston, author of The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul.
📅 Saturday 1 August
🕒 2–4pm
📍 Ngā Paiaka / Bleachers
Ground level, Te Matapihi Central Library
Three Wellington writers have turned their passion for music into books about bands. Paper Husbands by Nick Sceats is a novel about getting the band back together 30 years after it played at the Clarendon. In The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul, Richard Langston shares his love for a band that burst out of Dunedin 40 years ago. In The Richard Poems, Simon Sweetman writes about a toxic friendship and the playlist of their lives. Come and hear Nick, Simon, and Richard riff on their books and the music that inspired them.
📅 Saturday 1 August
🕒 2–4pm
📍 Ngā Paiaka / Bleachers
Ground level, Te Matapihi Central Library
Three Wellington writers have turned their passion for music into books about bands. Paper Husbands by Nick Sceats is a novel about getting the band back together 30 years after it played at the Clarendon. In The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul, Richard Langston shares his love for a band that burst out of Dunedin 40 years ago. In The Richard Poems, Simon Sweetman writes about a toxic friendship and the playlist of their lives. Come and hear Nick, Simon, and Richard riff on their books and the music that inspired them.
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Where is it happening?
Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Public Library Building, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington
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Host or PublisherWellington City Libraries
