The Star: November 19, 2020
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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2020</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 55<br />
Rekindling the<br />
sound of BUSHFIRE<br />
ANYONE who frequented<br />
Warner's Hotel in the <strong>19</strong>80s will<br />
remember the resident band<br />
BUSHFIRE. ey played there four<br />
nights a week for many years and<br />
were the exponents of 'Bush' music.<br />
30 years on and the exhilarating<br />
sound of BUSHFIRE is making a<br />
come back!<br />
“It's amazing aer all this time<br />
how many people have fond<br />
memories of BUSHFIRE and<br />
particularly our time at Warner's,”<br />
says Ian Costello, founding<br />
BUSHFIRE member and founding member and band<br />
leader of well respected e Black Velvet Band. “I've<br />
met people from all over New Zealand who remember<br />
the band. We were doing something different that<br />
nobody has copied to this day. Many people have<br />
asked me if I would ever get the band back together.<br />
For a long time I resisted the idea of a new version of<br />
BUSHFIRE, preferring to let the past be the past.<br />
However, this year I reconsidered. Nobody is playing<br />
traditional Bush music in New Zealand anymore. I<br />
didn't want to see this music die. It's a tradition worth<br />
preserving and there's now a whole generation who<br />
IAN COSTELLO<br />
have never heard it before.”<br />
So starting tonight, the sound<br />
of BUSHFIRE is being rekindled at<br />
e Little Fiddle in the form of<br />
BUSHFIRE & CO comprising<br />
original member Ian (vocals,<br />
mandolin, banjo, guitar) and his<br />
'Co.' made up of longtime<br />
collaborator Nick Jackman (vocals,<br />
guitar, harmonica, mandolin,<br />
banjo), Glen Stenhouse (vocals,<br />
lagerphone) and Seb Warren<br />
(bass). And on the set list... many<br />
th<br />
of the traditional bush songs from the <strong>19</strong> century as<br />
well as songs by later New Zealand folk songwriters<br />
such as Phil Garland and Peter Cape, plus renditions of<br />
classic Kiwi pop songs from Split Enz, Hello Sailor, the<br />
Clean and Supergroove performed with banjos,<br />
broomsticks and bottletops.<br />
You can catch Bushre and Co. ursday nights at<br />
the Little Fiddle, 132 Oxford Tce, starting 8.30pm.<br />
Another for the calendar - Sunday Sessions at TLF.<br />
Ian leads Traditional Sessions every Sunday from 4pm.<br />
Everyone welcome.<br />
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