89: Darryl Thompson is a producer, composer and artist from Ngāti Kahungunu. He produced ‘Chains’ with Che Fu and co-founded Upper Hutt Posse with Te Kupu.
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88: Renee Church & Matt Coombe are stand-up comedians. Both are regulars on the open mic circuit in Auckland, & are working toward being full-time performers.
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87: Aaron Tokona performs as AHoriBuzz via Steve Vai from Naenae, Weta, Bongmaster, and Cairo Knife Fight. He speaks two words of truth to power: ‘wha-cup’.
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86: Andrea Reid is the founder of Pollinator Paths, a renewal-driven bird, insect, reptile, & urban garden-friendly trail connecting the city’s green spaces.
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85: Jarret Filmer is Geoff Rissole, co-creator of Shit Towns of NZ. He and Rick Furphy are Australasia's leading experts on sociology, travel, and culture.
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84: Jason Ford is one of NZ’s most passionate hip hop heads. He hosted NZ’s longest running hip hop radio show, The Wednesday Night Jam, from 1990 to 2006.
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83: Peter Urlich is a musician, entertainer, & Renaissance man. He is a Dude, one ½ of Nice & Urlich, TV band manager, broadcaster & dancer with the stars.
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82: Julia Deans has been performing & making music for over 25 years, fronting Fur Patrol before forging a solo career alongside other performance projects.
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81: Stephen Gallagher is a composer & music editor. He worked closely on The Hobbit franchise, & has worked closely with Brian Eno, Nick Cave, & Ed Sheeran.
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80: Gene Jouavel & Cian O’Donnell were part of a team who in 1999 began dispensing speciality rhythms, congregations, & nocturnal health tonics on Galatos St.
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79: Danny McCrum is a musician, entrepreneur, and co-host of podcast ‘Don’t Give up your Day Job’. His fourth album Hustle Bustle will be released shortly.
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78: Nabeel Zuberi teaches & writes about music, media, film and the politics of culture. Pakistan-born, he moved from Yemen to England as a refugee in 1968.
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77: Lindsay Neill is a chef turned lecturer whose research & teaching frames food in social and cultural contexts. He has studied NZ’s most famous pie cart.
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76: Levi Hawken is a pro skateboarder, artist, teacher, mentor, writer & landscaper, who in 2011 unwittingly ended up one of NZ’s best-known Internet memes.
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75: Graeme Hill is a broadcaster, producer, writer, musician & raconteur. He was an Able Tasman from 1983 to 1996, and 95bFM’s first full-time brekkie host.
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74: Karl Steven is a composer of original music to picture, academic, music producer, & musician. He’s probably best known as the front man for Supergroove.
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73: Herman Loto is a rapper, MMA fighter & trainer, former King Cobras member, and security provider. His debut album Samoans: Part 2 is a slept-on classic.
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72: Harry T Bastard landed a role at Rough Trade Records, which led to a role at Watts Music. The front room of Harry’s New York flat was known as ‘Club H’.
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71: Gareth Shute is a writer, publisher, & musician. In 2004 he wrote the award-winning Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa, the first of five books he has authored.
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70: Paul Oremland made a film about 100 of his past lovers. 100 Men features interviews with some of the men, charting 40 years of gay history & Paul’s life.
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