Pass The Gat

Overview

If you’re interested in music or guitar or talent in general, then you might be interested in checking out the union between three guitar greats, who are coming together to share some melodies and just have a general guitar party in Pass the Gat.

Leader of blues quartet Little Bushman, and a number of other musical projects, Laureate Warren Maxwell, is a local musician, having grown up in Whangarei and studied jazz at the Conservatorium of Music in Wellington. He co-founded Trinity Roots, whose debut album True, and second album Home, Land and Sea have both gone platinum despite the band’s separation in 2005. Maxwell will be playing alongside up and comer Louis Baker. Baker is known for raw lyrics and an emotion-filled sound with Motown undertones. The local boy has received international acclaim - having attended the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in New York and played gigs all over Europe. He has been pinned as one to watch.

The third musician to grace the stage is Wellington local, Thomas Oliver. A singer-songwriter and frontman of blues rock band, the self titled Thomas Oliver Band, Oliver is know better known for his talent on the Weissenborn. After being gifted his first Weissenborn slide guitar by fellow musician Tony Francis, Oliver has racked up over 200,000 Youtube hits for his first self-written song on the new instrument, 'The Moment'. The song became an entire album, Beneath the Weissenborn, and it is a really rad sound. Have a listen.