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The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.
The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.
The Featherston Booktown Podcast
Episode 1: Shayne P. Carter
Hosts Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin talk to the legendary Shayne P. Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) about his career in music and his writing process.
Shayne will join broadcaster and Ockham Book Awards short-listed author Nick Bollinger and Featherston musician extraordinaire Warren Maxwell (Trinity Roots, Little Bushman) for 'Notes on the Page: Writing Music' at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023, where they will discuss their different approaches to their work and the challenges of making a life in music.
Shayne P. Carter's autobiography, 'Dead People I Have Known', is out now from Victoria University Press.
Tickets to 'Notes on the Page' are available HERE.
The Festival Programme can be found HERE.
Musical theme by Kolya Marks.
Engineered by Huck Jackson at Radio Waatea.
Edited by Denver Grenell.
Produced by Denver Grenell & Phil Quin for Featherston Booktown.