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Wayne Gillespie – Biography
Auckland born Wayne Gillespie made his start in 1979/80 busking in Paris, playing to audiences in London folk clubs and entertaining in Darlinghurst cafes before settling back in New Zealand in 1981.

His first solo album, the acoustic Wayward Son was released in 1984 and made the finals of the New Zealand Music awards in two categories: – Most Promising Vocalist & Folk Album of the Year. The song Away with You off this album also won a special APRA award in the same year.

His second album New Locations was released by CBS NZ/Aus in 1987 and was produced by Aussie folk legend the late Trevor Lucas. (Ex- Fairport Convention and producer of albums for Sandy Denny, Redgum & Goanna). This album saw Wayne in the New Zealand charts and playing live in Australasia with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Dave Dobbyn, Redgum, and Shona Lang. Wayne relocated to Sydney in 1988.

Gillespies third album Living in Exile was released in 1993 (through Sony NZ & Festival Aust) and included Dave Dobbyn, Margaret Urlich, Brendan Power & Nigel Gavin as guests. This album received much critical acclaim on both sides of the Tasman and saw Gillespie touring extensively in Australia and New Zealand both solo acoustic and in band mode. Including gigs with Chris Whitley, Neil Murray, Colin Hay, Marcia Howard and Irelands Keiran Goss.

In 1995 Gillespie formed a new band called Passionfish and released an EP Love Comes Down. He has also made several Australian TV appearances and performed on the final closing night of Aucklands legendary Gluepot venue with Dave Dobbyn, Neil Finn, Shona Lang and the Brainchilds.

In Jan 1997 Gillespie was invited to produce the third album for NZ band the NARCS recorded in Hamilton. He also co-wrote songs and guested on this album called Push the Boat Out (Hark records).

Wayne also combined with virtuoso guitarist Nigel Gavin to record an Acoustic live album Live at the Bunker album which was released in 2006.

Waynes current recording project is with a band called Famous Blue Raincoat featuring co-writes with drummer Rob Grosser due for release 2010.

On the live front several Irish dates in 2009 with Brendan Power resulted in the two planning to tour New Zealand in Jan 2010.