PULL DOWN THE SHADES: Garage Fanzine 1984-86 BOOK

282 pages, first softcover edition.

Tales from the New Zealand Music Underground by Richard Langston.

Hozac Books second 'rare zine compendium' (Denim Delinquent 3rd edition coming soon) and compiles the impossibly rare and primitive GARAGE fanzine from New Zealand covering the blistering Flying Nun and nascent Xpressway scenes with vigor and guts like no other. A collection of all six original issues plus heaps of new interviews and essays from NZ's post punk luminaries.

“This book is no outbreak of nostalgia. I still listen to this music the way I started listening to it 40 years ago. It still sounds vital to me. The musicians have kept evolving. That’s why I’ve continued to interview them across the decades. The fact this Garage book stretches back to the mid-1980s and includes the original six issues of the fanzine is about the coolest thing I could ever have wished to happen. We wrote it for once reason – so it would lead people to listen to the music.” – Richard Langston, March 2023, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand