White City

The Girl From The Criterion

The Great Flood of 1886 wiped out parts of Oamaru surrounds. A young adopted orphan girl was drowned, her body never recovered. She was simply named as "the young orphan girl" in the reports of the loss of her adoptive family and no monument in the graveyard mentions her in any way. I find that heartbreaking.

A Flower Of A Girl

A more traditional style of folk song this celebrates the blokes who moved through young NZ working as jack-of-all-trades. They did what they could where ever the work was. A funny story about the recording of this track... the background sounds were made by sharpening a blade, filing a piece of wood and striking a steel girder with a club hammer. On one take the head of the bloody hammer flew off across the studio toward Luke at the recording desk... accompanied by much laughter and swearing! The word Chauffeur used to mean the stoker of the coal powered engine. As early cars were so smokey the name was applied to the driver of the vehicle.

Chauffeur

A demo from way back, Joanne on vocals, Paul bass and Phil on guitar.

Phil Powers