Gareth Hal Shute (born 1 September 1973) is a non-fiction author,"TV review: Rocked the Nation: 100 NZ Music Moments". New Zealand Herald, By Greg Dixon 13 May 2008 musician and journalist from New Zealand.
Career
Shute's first book, Hip Hop Music In Aotearoa was published in 2004, and won an award at the NZ book awards in 2005. Hip Hop Book Wins Montana Award . NZ Musician.Montana New Zealand Book Awards – Literature – Christchurch City Libraries"Past Winners". New Zealand Book Awards. He went on to write four more books: Making Music In New Zealand,"Making Music in New Zealand". WorldCat. Insights: New Zealand Artists Talk About Creativity,"Friday November 10". Breakfast, TV One, New Zealand. NZ Rock: 1987-2007Gareth Shute on New Zealand Book Council Website and Concept Albums.Reekie, Trevor. "Self-published musical authors". Access All Areas: Radio New Zealand. After taking a break from writing books for over a decade, in 2025 Shute returned with Songs From The Shaky Isles: A Short History Of Popular Music In New Zealand. "Songs From The Shaky Isles: A Short History Of Popular Music In New Zealand"
Shute has also been a music columnist for New Zealand Music Magazine and continues to write for the music history website, Audioculture. Shute, Gareth. "Writing the Book on Hip Hop". Audioculture.
Over this time, he was also a member of a number of local bands including: The Tokey Tones, The Ruby Suns,"Tunes jump on the 60s bandwagon". South China Morning Post, 4 February 2007 The Brunettes,"His sound history". New Zealand Herald, 22 May 2008. The Cosbys, The Conjurors, Dictaphone Blues,"Dictaphone Blues" By Courtney Sanders. Under the Radar, 11 April 2012 and The Broken Heartbreakers. He currently plays in garage rock two-piece Fever Party and all-star quartet Thee Golden Geese "Premiere: Thee Golden Geese" By Chris Cudby. Under the Radar, 20 January 2020
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