Goldenhorse
| Goldenhorse | |
|---|---|
| Origin | New Zealand |
| Genres | Pop/Folk |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Siren Records |
| Members | Geoff Maddock Kirsten Morrell Ben King Vincent Hine Nick Gaffaney |
| Past members | Joel Wilton Andrew Clark Ben Collier |
| Goldenhorse discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 3 |
| Singles | 8 |
| Charity singles | 1 |
Goldenhorse are a pop band from New Zealand. The group consists of Geoff Maddock (guitar/vocals), Kirsten Morrell (vocals), Ben King (guitar/vocals), Vincent Hine (bass), and Nick Gaffaney (drums).
The band was founded in 2000 by Geoff Maddock and Kirsten Morrell. Other original members were Joel Wilton, who with Geoff Maddock and Edmund Cake was a member of the band Bressa Creeting Cake, and Ben King who began on the bass guitar. They were joined by Andrew Clark on guitar and began working on songs written by Geoff and Kirsten. Goldenhorse's first live performance was late in 1997, at the Classic on Queen St in Auckland, a bar newly converted from the Classic movie theatre, which until then had been Auckland's most famous blue movie theater. The gig was not a great success, however Goldenhorse was already attracting attention in the NZ music scene.
Geoff Maddock and Joel Wilton's previous band Bressa Creeting Cake had released one critically acclaimed album in NZ on Flying Nun Records in 1997, and before the band had broken up they had gathered many fans, including Tim Finn and Neil Finn from legendary New Zealand band Split Enz and more recently the internationally successful Crowded House. The respect of these musicians extended to Goldenhorse through Geoff Maddock and Tim Finn loaned Goldenhorse a 24-track tape machine and a recording desk to make an album with.
With recording engineer Nick Abbott the band began work on their first album in the flat where Geoff lived above a strip club in downtown Auckland, but it soon became obvious they needed a more dedicated space to record in. Nick, Geoff and the band's manager Michael Keating moved to a house in the Waitakere hills above Auckland city, and Nick and Geoff converted the new space into a recording studio. The house where they moved to and where Goldenhorse's first album was recorded had an interesting history in that it had been known as the dePalma Institute, the residence and workspace of Bruce De Palma, a controversial electrical engineer and scientist, and brother of the film director Brian De Palma. Bruce De Palma had moved to New Zealand in 1996 to continue his work on free energy machines, and had built and was in the process of testing his latest machine there when he died in 1997.
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