Garage was a music fanzine based in Dunedin, New Zealand, which was created and edited by journalist Richard Langston. Six issues were published during the 1980s. The first issue was only 18 photocopied pages and produced in a very small edition, but the final issue was printed in a run of more than a thousand.[1]
Langston had returned to Dunedin in 1985 after living and working in London, and he created Garage out of his enthusiasm for the New Zealand music scene at the time. Garage became a reference especially for the nascent Flying Nun scene which in its early days was based largely around the city's Dunedin Sound music.
Richard Langston is now a television journalist with New Zealand's TV3.[2]
Garage was originally distributed only locally in Dunedin, but by the last issue was being distributed and traded in Australia, Great Britain, Europe and the USA.
Artists named on the cover of each issue of Garage were:
Notable international acts like Roky Erickson, Lou Reed, and The Go-Betweens were featured in the magazine without being teased on the cover.
As part of the Flying Nun record label’s 30th anniversary celebrations in 2011, all six issues of the Garage were digitally re-released on the Flying Nun blog.[3]