Jonny Potts

Guest writer

Image: Tina Tiller

Video collections deserve more than a sentimental RIP

The very last of the video stores are falling, but is all that history worth nothing more than a bad Netflix show?

By Jonny Potts | 14th November, 2022

Smells like the spirit of 1995

Smells like the spirit of 1995

Does any teenager, shivering and drinking beer in a park, know they're making memories that will haunt them forever?

By Jonny Potts | 23rd October, 2022

Hospi has cheered a generation of kids at Wellington hospital (Image: Supplied / Design: Tina Tiller)

Hospi the lion sees his Wellington Hospital role restructured

As Wellington Hospital's Te Wao Nui welcomes new characters, Hospi the lion's role has come under scrutiny.

By Jonny Potts | 5th September, 2022

David Berman (Silver Jews) passed away on August 7, 2019.

An answerphone message for David Berman

Jonny Potts leaves a message for one of the musicians that mattered to him most: David Berman of the Silver Jews, who died this week.

By Jonny Potts | 9th August, 2019

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy in the video for I See A Darkness.

If we don’t sing, then we won’t have anything: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s I See a Darkness, 20 years on

Twenty years on, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's I See a Darkness continues to beguile listeners. Jonny Potts tries to make sense of a timeless classic.

By Jonny Potts | 19th January, 2019

RIP Tom Petty: The troubled triumph of 1993’s Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits

RIP Tom Petty: The troubled triumph of 1993’s Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits

Tom Petty died today, aged 66. Jonny Potts remembers his 1993 Greatest Hits album, one of the best single-disc greatest hits compilations ever released.

By Jonny Potts | 3rd October, 2017

Beyond the gumboot: The non-Dagg work of John Clarke

Beyond the gumboot: The non-Dagg work of John Clarke

On the heels of today's Fred nominee announcements, comedian Jonny Potts digs deep into the non-Fred Dagg work of John Clarke, including a book, a podcast and some handy YouTube clips.

By Jonny Potts | 21st May, 2017