Last year for NZ Music Month 2016, we asked bands/artists for a favourite memory of making music in Wellington.

It could involve a favourite gig, a funny story from the recording studio, a moment that led to the inspiration for a song, the fond recollection of a defunct venue, or the piece of music or lyric that they were most proud of creating.

We really enjoyed the stories people told us, so we are doing it again this year. Up next are Ska band Dimestore Skanks.

A few years ago we had a December show at Fast Eddies Pool Hall. Our trombone player came straight in from his end of year work party where they had been drinking since noon and he was more steamed than your grandma’s broccoli. Somehow he managed to dodge the bouncers and stayed awake until showtime. He then spent half our set blasting his trombone into the wrong end of a mic stand. The audience found this spectacle very entertaining, and the band knew it probably sounded better.