The Chills

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Lovely interview with , Callum and Todd

13th Floor MusicTalk with The Chills Callum Hampton & Todd Knudson Following the death of Chills leader Martin Phillipps and the release of Springboard: Early Unrecorded Songs, Chills drummer Callum Hampton and bass player T...

A nice piece from Stuff about Martins house.

Hidden superstar surprise in home of late Chills’ singer The Dunedin home of the iconic frontman of The Chills is on the market, and the family of the late Martin Phillipps would love a fan to buy it.

Martins family have completed the refurbishment of his home and now it is on the market for sale.

46 Tainui Rd v2

The next single from the album - Meet My Eyes - is out today.
https://thechills.lnk.to/SpringBoard

The next single Dolphins is being released imminently. https://thechills.lnk.to/SpringBoard

The album Spring Board will be available late February 2025 and can be pre-ordered at this link: https://thechills.lnk.to/SpringBoard

The first single from the album: If This World Was Made For Me is available now to listen to on streaming services.

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Martin Phillipps, a good friend and supporter of the library.
A few weeks before he passed, Martin kindly answered our 3 Questions about libraries, sharing some of his thoughts and memories with us. We are thankful to him for always being so generous with his time, we will miss him dearly.
Our condolences go out to his family, and our thanks also to them for allowing us to share these memories with you. Ngā mihi aroha kia a koutou whānau. Moe mai rā e te rangatira.

Martin Phillipps of The Chills

📚What is your earliest library memory?
I remember visiting the children’s library around 1970 when it was still in upper Stuart Street. It was a rainy day and, frankly, a herd of small children in wet, woollen jerseys is not a smell one easily forgets. But it was a warm, comfortable place where (these were different times) your parents could leave you while they went shopping and you could find your own little corner and become immersed in a new story.

📚What does a library mean to you?
A library, to me, is the organised protection of some of humanity’s most wonderful ideas.

📚What is a favourite book of yours?
That’s tough… okay - off the top of my head, Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ recently confronted me as no piece of literature has.
I love Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ - even the descriptions of the whaling process, which some people find tedious or worse.
Once every seven or eight years I will re-read the Narnia series - thinking that it will be the last time.