14 Jul 2014

Introducing: Hopetoun Brown

8:42 am on 14 July 2014

Emerging local musicians are given two minutes to introduce one of their songs and say whatever they like about themselves and their music.Your time ... starts ... Now! 

Hopetoun Brown are Nick Atkinson (left) and Tim Stewart (right).

Hopetoun Brown are Nick Atkinson (left) and Tim Stewart (right). Photo: John Payne

Name: Tim Stewart of Hopetoun Brown

Age: 39

Hometown: Auckland

Sounds like: Gravel going down a waterslide.

Musical guilty pleasure: Pantera’s album F#@king Hostile

Formative musical experience: Hearing Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting by Charles Mingus on the bFM Jazz show when I was 14. I bought tonnes of records trying to find that sound.