Reviews
House Concerts/Private Functions
An opportunity and unique experience - hosting one of New Zealand's top singer/songwriter's for your house concert or private function. Wayne Mason with longtime stagemate Clinton Brown, on bass/guitar and vocals.
Listener - Nick Bollinger "Good Sense"
"Wayne Mason's album is full of hits waiting to be heard"
The land has always been a looming presence in the songs of Wayne Mason. Just think of "Nature" the hit he wrote nearly 40 years ago for his teenage band The Fourmyula, enshrined in the "Nature's Best" series as this country's most loved anthem, with its images of trees and fallen leaves.
Real Groove - Marty Duda
(Sense Got Out) - "It ranks as one of the most emotionally honest songs I've heard all year"
Sense Got Out - Waikato Times
"...12 masterpieces on the peculiarities of love" (Five stars)
In 1962 Wayne Mason formed his first band the Southern Auroras with school friends in Upper Hutt. Since then he's become best known for the creative musical input he has brought to The Warratahs, Rockinghorse and The Fourmyula. Indeed his best known tune, Nature, recorded with The Fourmyula in 1969 was voted a few years back as New Zealand's best loved song.
Sense Got Out - Graham Reid
"...another catalogue of rare songs by one of our finest songwriters"
Singer-songwriter Wayne Mason may be best (and in some circles only) known as the guy who wrote the Kiwi classic Nature for the Fourmyula (later covered by the Mutton Birds) -- but that was almost four decades ago and he has spent the intervening period crafting equally excellent material for the Warratahs (until '94), and now delivers them on a trickle of solo albums of which this is only the third in 12 years.
Sense Got Out - Nelson Evening Mail - Nick Ward
Wayne Mason occupies a special niche in the pantheon of great Kiwi songwriters.
He isn't overly prolific - this is just his third solo album - and few of his songs have become singalong anthems, but the quality is always there.
Every so often, he pops up with a grunty band behind him and delivers a new set of warm, tuneful meditations on celebrating and losing love.
Sense Got Out comes seven years after his last album, Same Boy, but eschews that album's commercial veneer for a cosier feel.
Sense Got Out - Wairarapa Times Age - Steve Trotman
"...12 glorious tracks which have instant appeal"
Had Wayne Mason only written New Zealand’s official most popular song, Nature, almost 40 years ago, he would still be a legend. During his years with the Fourmyula, Rocking Horse and the Warratahs, Mason has honed his songwriting craft to put him on the top rung alongside the Finns and Don McGlashan .
Between Frames - Capital Times - Donald Reid
Much has been said about Wayne Mason returning to his pop roots after years on the Warratahs highway. Sure it seems logical, this is the man who wrote ‘Nature’ after all. But the great songwriter has the ability to cross genre boundaries, and if it needs to proven again, Mason is a great songwriter.
Between Frames - Real Groove - Kevin Byrt - 1996
It’s hard to believe that after 30 years as the creative force behind three of New Zealand’s best known bands, this is probably the first time most of us have really heard of Wayne Mason. Worth the wait ? Most definitely. Mason’s 12 excellent compositions, Nigel Stone’s sympathetic production, along with three decades of hard-won experience have culminated in a world-class songwriter album.
