Frank | Onehunga
“I’m Frank, from Onehunga. I have friends and a neighbour who lives down the road from me, and he invites me over once a week to play music in his garage,
And it developed into – we’ve probably been doing it for about three or four years with different people coming along and playing music that we like to play. And he’s quite a generous host as well.
I grew up in Auckland and I’ve lived in Onehunga for about 30 to 40 years. I’m retired at the moment and I have family who is grown. Children who have grown up, and I have grandchildren which I don’t see all the time – they live far away, but some of them live closer, so that’s good, and I like participating in activities and that with my children, and also my mother who’s still alive. I go out with her once a week for coffee. So, yeah it’s great.
I play the guitar mainly, I’ve played for quite a while, and I’ve always gone back to it over the years. When things get a bit down, it’s always a sort of escape, I suppose. Learning different things, trying to achieve different goals within music, playing with other people and the friendship that you get from rehearsing and having the same tastes in music, things like that.
I belong to a jam night they have one or two times a month which is good because you can jam with people you don’t know. It’s good doing that because you don’t know what’s going to happen, and you have to compromise a lot with other people and their different abilities. It’s really satisfying and there’s still a lot of people that like to play music as a hobby particularly later on in life, I found it’s quite beneficial to have, as an outlet, and something that I have in common with people.”
