Brian Wafer


No one stands taller on the New Plymouth music scene than Brian Wafer. The city’s longest serving local legend, there is little, if anything, that Wafer doesn’t know about the musicians, venues, releases and folklore of the place, and no one has done more to help cultivate and encourage every aspect of this than he.

His record shop and label, Ima Hitt, has been responsible for numerous local releases. The gigs he has organised or assisted with are too many to be listed and the number of posters he has and continues to put up around the city, is a work that will probably remain in progress for the rest of his life.

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Brian Wafer stands proudly as his grandson buys his first vinyl record at Vinyl Countdown in New Plymouth
Photo credit: Courtesy of Vinyl Countdown
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Brian Wafer speaking at Taranaki's West Coast School of Rock
Interview with Brian Wafer (short film made at Vinyl Countdown, New Plymouth, Record Store Day 2015)
Brian Wafer in New Plymouth's Vinyl Countdown store
Photo credit: Courtesy of Vinyl Countdown
Brian Wafer and Peter Jeffferies, Record Store Day 2012 in New Plymouth's Vinyl Countdown
Photo credit: Courtesy of Vinyl Countdown
Brian Wafer on the right in the 1990s
Brian Wafer, 2015
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