Chris Schulz has become one of the main music writers I read on a consistent basis.
On his Substack ‘Boiler Room’ Chris covers a range of issues within the Arts & Culture space, from live event reviews, to features on artists to his investigative work covering police presence at music festivals this summer.
Chris is a ‘proper’ journalist (according to me) stepping outside of the collapsing media institutions and dabbling with direct to consumer writing & the creator economy.
He has written for RNZ, NZ Herald & Stuff among other publications. Chris live blogged his Big Day Out experiences from a Blackberry straight to the Stuff website in the late 2000’s. 20 years later and he’s still going, having attended and reviewed Electric Avenue here in Ōtautahi last weekend.
Chris graciously made time before the first day of Electric Ave to sit down at a local cafe for a chat.
We discuss the collapse of the music media, his story on the NZ Police’s summer festival crackdown, and psych two piece Ripship.
Make sure you go and read Chris’s work. He’s got both a free subscription and paid subscription tier & he deserves your support!
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