He did his time in some Auckland party bands, but now Bannerman is pushing his music to the dark side, writes Lydia Jenkin Richie Setford has been a fixture on the Auckland music scene for the best part of a decade - first with funk-soul outfit One Million Dollars, then with Latin-inspired party starters Batucada Sound Machine. But over the past five years, he's also been helming a fluid band of musicians around his project Bannerman, and this month the prolific songwriter is releasing his third album Clawhammer. His folk rock leanings, combined with lots of vivid, lyrical imagery, a bit of country twang, and a few cinematic flourishes are brought to life by a five-piece ensemble with a...
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