MARTIN PHILLIPPS of The Chills – INTERVIEW
I had the pleasure of interviewing Martin Phillipps of The Chills in 2023. Sadly, Martin died the following summer. This interview was first published on the Grapevine Live! website in 23rd June 2023 by Chris Perry | Jun 15, 2023 | Music, Interview I was excited to be introduced to Martin Phillipps when The Chills came to play at Norwich Arts Centre. This was the chance to sit down with a writer of an unimaginable number of songs, (many more than the 500 oft- suggested), while he was passing through Norwich. We sat in the beer garden of The Plough, soaking up the late-afternoon heat and talked about song writing, playing in a band, the history and geography of New Zealand, where Martin, founder and leader of The Chills, resides. Spin a globe round until you find South Island. To locate Dunedin, look pretty much as far south as you can go on the east coast. It’s a fair way. Dunedin’s remoteness, (or is it we who are remote?), seems such that people have to make their own ente...