Credits

Photography -  Bernadette Fastnedge (Fool Circle promo shots) 

                        Sue Warren (Feste's Song video shoot shots)

                        Daron Brinsdon ('for the record' still photography)

                        John King (studio promo & practice shots)

                        Jo Heap (studio practice shots 'for the record')

                        Rebecca Mckay-Watts (studio practice shots 'for the record')

                        Darcy Gladwin (theatre improvisation shots)

Video -              Daron Brinsdon ('for the record' footage)

                        Mark Warren (Feste's Song video footage)

                        Janelle Bish (Feste's Song 2nd camera)

Sound -           

Musicians on John Goudge - Fool Circle

John Goudge — vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, electric guitars, pianos, keyboards, mouth trumpet, extra percussion, sound effects

Helen Goudge — vocals, electric piano (tk 4), organ (tk 5)

Tracey Brabet — vocals

Dave Watts — upright bass (tks 1, 2 & 5) bass guitar (tks 4, 6, 8, 9, & 10)

Charles Pierard — violin (tk 1 & 3), mob vocal (tk 1 & 5)

John Cameron — conga, bongos, khol, guiro, djembe, tambourine & percussion

Geoff Fitzpatrick — bass guitar (tks 3, 7) fretless bass (tk 11)

Len Salt — acoustic guitar (tk 3 & 5), electric guitar (tk 2)

Mark Towl — drums

string quartet on tk 6 (Resignation) 1st violin Jess Hindin, 2nd violin Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, viola Wen Chuang Lin, cello Ashley Brown, recorded at Native Audio by Greg Junovich.

All songs written & arranged by John Goudge

*except tk 10 (Under the Greenwood Tree) lyrics by William Shakespeare from As You Like It.

Tks 1, 3 & 7 recorded 2006/07 at Area 51 Studios, New Lynn, Waitakere City, Auckland N.Z.

Engineer/producer Mark Pavletich — Academic Audio.

Re-mixed & mastered at Beaver Studios.

Tks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11 recorded 2007/08 at Beaver Studios, Auckland N.Z. beaverstudios.com

Engineers Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper & Jonathon Campbell.

Mixing, mastering, & additional production by Simon Holloway.

Produced by John Goudge.

Additional recording by John Goudge at Rimu Glade Studio, Waiatarua, Waiatakere City, Auckland, N.Z.

Thanks to Waitakere City Council Creative Communities , & the Titirangi Community Arts Council.

Web -

This website constructed by John Goudge -

with technical assistance from Jonathan Campbell at thelikelystory.com

Thankyous:

There are so many people to thank. You know who you are. But just so that everyone else does, here's an ever growing list of wonderful souls who have helped me & John Goudge Band.

Marie & Stan Goudge - for everything really. You introduced a love of music & performance to us kids, & we love you for it, & your undying support. You really are the biggest influence on our lives, & I thank God for the talents you have helped raise in me.

Kathy Lowe - my beloved, for loving me for me, & being there. I really couldn't do what I do without you.

Tracey Brabet - my best friend, for putting up with me all these years.

Len Salt & Svargo - great & treasured friends.

Janine Williams for being my solopie first, good hugs & good music (& her fine fellow Brent).

Those who believed in me early on: Robert Horwood, Dave Priestley, Donna & Denis Clark & Louise Keen, Nigel Yates, Tracey Miles, Lindsay Mutch, Tanya Clayton, & of course Duano Ranger.

Many wonderful friends I am blessed with: Stevie Aherne, Peter & Jane Robinson, Daron Brinsdon, Ian & Kathryn, Kate & Joss, the MacIntyre family, & long time buddy Shaun Williams, Mandy Patmore, Jules Holloway, Graeme Heap, Lynn & Chris Radford, Chris & Lindsay Nash, Rosemary & Bryan Moore, Kate Burt, Karen Soulje, Allan Madden, John King, Sue Berman, Paul Keyto, Jo Birkbeck, Bernadette & John Fastnedge, Sarah O'Neill, Kor Prinns, Robin Essex, Keith Towl, Glenn Young, Kristen Kluge.

My dear sisters Helen & Robyn - so talented & loved.

I remember fondly great jam sessions with Roimata & Brent, encouragement from Luke Hurley, & Sherry & Peter Shirley.

All those musos I've played with over the years, including Aaron Murphy, Jason Maze, Dale O'Sullivan, Arana Pearson, Jackie, Peter, Anton, & Brent.

Also to all the staff at Go West Music.

Undying thanks always to the musicians on Fool Circle and the band - Johnny Conga Cameron, Tracey Brabet, Helen Goudge, Len Salt, Dave Watts, Geoff Fitzpatrick, Steve Gray, Rob Molyneux, Mark Towl, Charles Pierard.

Thanks to Dwight Andrew Hargreaves (died 30 June 1988). Wish You Were Here.

Loving memories too of Brendan Wells, an ultra-talented performer & friend.

Love JG.