Pix & Hollie

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ABOUT PIX & HOLLIE By day, Pix was a scribbler of all things said and done in the New Zealand Parliament, while Hollie was a down-and-out student and café waitress. By night, both were moonlighting in the dark arts of guitar, piano and lyrics. On Monday late-afternoons, throughout the bleak Wellington winter of 2009, they sought comfort in each other for motivation, ideas, tea and biscuits. They wrote some songs, recorded a little here and there, and played two memorable shows. ABOUT TINY RUINS Though having always written songs, it was for many years a pastime confined to her bedroom. Hollie lived in a drafty old tree house, complete with veranda, armchair and cat. Inside, she collected a menagerie of instruments, with noble intentions of learning them all. As her student days wore on, she picked up the courage to play in front of some people, found herself a name, and finally enlisted her friend Sam Prutton to record her. Use of the menagerie is now in full swing, and Tiny Ruins intends to release an ep and more in 2010. http://www.myspace.com/tinyruins ABOUT MATTHEW PICKERING Not caring for these third-person shenanigans, Pix says: "I'm drawn to folk music because of the story-telling. I have a background in english literature, bookshops, etc, so lyrical content is really important for me. I mostly play finger-picking guitar in alternate tunings, but when I'm singing and playing around a campfire and a guitar comes my way it's annoying to always have to alter the tunin

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