Join Wellington Museum and hear Chris Bourke of AudioCulture share some local audio archaeology for Aotearoa New Zealand Music Month. Chris’s lunchtime talk will take you on a trip down memory lane to the record stores of Wellington’s past. 

Up until the early 2000s there were dozens of record stores in Wellington, stretching from the Cenotaph to the Embassy, with many more in the suburbs.  Now there are only a few in Wellington, including a multi-national in the CBD, Slowboat and Flying Nun in Cuba Street, and Creeps and Herbs in the suburbs.”  

Names like Vanvi’s, Silvio’s, Colin Morris, Record Preservation were Meccas to specialist music lovers, with department stores such as James Smith’s, Kirkcaldies, and the DIC also catering for the mass market. What has changed and what does it mean for Wellington’s music scene today? 

About AudioCulture: 

AudioCulture is the online “noisy library” of New Zealand popular music, and the sister site of NZ On Screen, about our film and TV heritage. 

Wednesday 3 May | 12.30-1.30pm | Wellington Museum