The Chronicle caught up with local performer Jinja Cat this week to catch up about the Soundsystem Project and the resulting song and music video that was produced from the youth workshop. The musiv video for the song, Anti-Lonely was premiered to audiences at the Old School Arts centre cinema last week. Keep Reading
Budding local musos built a transportable community soundsystem and got to test their skills in MCing, DJing, songwriting, live performance, music production and music video creation in a week-long music making project. Keep Reading
Get ready to take a trip into the imaginations of three young artists at the Brain Funk exhibition at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre in from February 7 to 29. Keep Reading
Five students from Raglan Area School have been selected in the New Zealand Junior Team to compete at the World Junior Surfing Championships starting this weekend on the 26th October and running through to the 3rd of November at Huntington Beach, California, USA. Keep Reading
The Waikato Scholastic Surfing Team competed in the National Scholastic Surfing Champs at Manu Bay October 7-11. Keep Reading
The annual New Zealand Schools Surfing Competition held at Manu bay was, as is now the norm, run by students from Raglan Area School. Keep Reading
Getting to know some of our young local talent. This week we spoke to Lenny and Muroki from the band Cloak Bay.
When did you first start playing together?
We started playing around two years ago with our mentor, the legendary Peter Skandera. Skandy was the person who came up with the idea of a collaboration and the first generation of the band, Raglan Hillbilly’s with our debut song ‘soggy pigeon.’
Where have you performed?
As Cloak Bay we just begun performing live with a bunch super cool and talented dudes, Jacob, Kelvin, Paulo and Tatava. However we will hopefully be making a few appearances around Raglan.
So we heard you have released your first EP. Tell us about that process.
We started by just making some music that we enjoyed listening to at home. Some of our buddy’s thought we should put some of it out onto the web and it was then that our first EP digi town and the boogie boys was birthed. We’d describe our music as a mixture of jazz, indie and blue wave influences.
How did that style of music become your thing?
I guess the style is just a mix of all sorts of music we’re into so it came about through just a shared enthusiasm in similar genres.
How do you work together? Is it a collaborative approach?
Sometimes one of us will write a full song, sometimes it will be kind of half and half, there’s not really any set approach to how we do it just yet.
What can we expect in 2018?
We think we will be releasing a new album and maybe some kind of music videos in the future.
How can we listen to your music?
If you’re keen you can have a listen on, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, CD baby and Google Play.
This week’s Young Ones column is sponsored by Ray White Raglan.
This week the Chronicle had a chat with Billy Lee-Pope, an up and coming photographer and film maker. Keep Reading
This week the Chronicle spoke to Jodie Sharples (left) and Zoe Oliver Dowling (right) who have returned from a Trans-Tasman athletics tour. Keep Reading
The Chronicle had a quick chat with 13-year-old Josef Jungwirth, pictured above with his Raglan Point Boardriders U14 and U18 Club Champ trophies. Keep Reading