Nick Bollinger is a music writer and broadcaster, musician and former postie and teacher, who grew up in Wellington. Goneville is a loving and intimate portrait of the New Zealand music scene in the 1970s, set against the social and narcotic evolution of the times. The bands who pass through the books pages range from Blerta to Dragon, Chris Knox to Quincy Conserve, but always in the foreground is Rick Bryant; there are drugs and alcohol, Muldoon and the 1981 Springbok tour, clubs and pubs, endless tours in old buses. It's a hugely entertaining look at a fascinating period in New Zealand's music history, a time gone forever.