One of three singers in 10-piece Auckland country band The Waltons, she had been invited by a man she knew only as Bones to record a demo at Mt Tiger Studio outside Whangarei. A solo mum at the time, she drove up there in a frenzy, played her songs and burst into tears.
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ABC Country
While working as a hairdresser in Auckland in the mid-1980s, Shanley Del trimmed and tinted one of NZ pop’s most recognisable mullets, that of Mockers keyboardist Tim Wedde. 20 years later, Wedde and Shanley’s husband James Gillard were bandmates in popular Australian roots band The Flood.