Performing guitar, vocals and harmonica, Phil plays an extensive range of popular easy-listening acoustic music. Selecting covers, originals and classical guitar pieces suitable to the audience, venue and setting. Covers range from the 60's to recent radio releases of today, with over 150 songs to choose from on his repertoire list. Some of his favourite songs to play are by The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Lenoard Cohen, Tom Petty, The Doors, Foo Fighters, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Radiohead.
When appropriate, Phil enjoys performing and adding classical guitar music to his sets. Including pieces by the great composers Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and classical guitarists Ferdinando Carulli, Matteo Carcassi and Mauro Giuliani. With 20 classical guitar pieces to choose from.
Phil began playing the guitar at age 13 and took music classes all throughout highschool. Also playing guitar and singing in bands, writing original songs and composing pieces of music on the piano. Completing Grade 6 Music Theory with the Royal School of Music by the end of highschool. He then studied 2 years at The Nelson School of Music Contemporary Performance Course in New Zealand. Since then, he has been writing, recording and performing live on a regular basis. For the past 5 years Phil has been performing weekly with residencies as a solo artist in restaurants and bars, in Wellington New Zealand.
COVERS SET LIST:
1. Blackbird – The Beatles
2. Free Falling – Tom Petty
3. I Can See Clearly – Johnny Nash
4. She Drives Me Crazy – FYC
5. With Or Without You – U2
6. Where The Children Play – Cat Stevens
7. Love Is All Around – Wet Wet Wet
8. Something – The Beatles
9. Baby Can I Hold You – Tracy Chapman
10. Everybody Hurts – R.E.M
11. Never Wash Up – Radiohead
12. Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles
13. No Surprises – Radiohead
14. Yesterday – The Beatles
15. Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
16. Imagine – John Lennon
17. Behind Blue Eyes – Limp Bizkit
18. Losing My Religion – R.E.M
19. New Slang – The Shins
20. Polly – Nirvana
21. Don't Panic - Coldplay
22. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
23. Wild World – Cat Stevens
24. Times Like These – Foo Fighters
25. High & Dry – Radiohead
26. Norwedgian Wood – The Beatles
27. Opportunity – Pete Murray
28. Time Of Your Life – Green Day
29. Four Seasons – Crowded House
30. The Weight – The Band
31. Talks To Angels – Black Crowes
32. Love Street – The Doors
33. Father & Son – Cat Stevens
34. Learning To Fly – Tom Petty
35. Hurdy Gurdy Man – Donovan
36. Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead
37. Hurt – Johnny Cash
38. Glycerine – Bush
39. Today – Smashing Pumpkins
40. Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
41. Ticket To Ride – The Beatles
42. Street Spirit – Radiohead
43. Hello I Love You – The Doors
44. Wild Thing – The Troggs
45. Jolene - The White Stripes
46. Traffic - Stereophonics
47. Better Man – Pearl Jam
48. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
49. First Cut Is The Deepest – Cat Stevens
50. Walk On The Wild Side – Lou Reed
51. Hotel California – The Eagles
52. Stand By Me – John Lennon
53. I Won't Back Down – Tom Petty
54. Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
55. House Of The Rising – The Animals
56. Daughter – Pearl Jam
57. Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses
58. Flake – Jack Johnson
59. The One I Love – R.E.M
60. Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
61. Mrs Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
62. Sex & Candy – Marcy Playground
63. Come Together – The Beatles
64. No One Else – Weezer
65. Karma Police – Radiohead
66. I'm On Fire – Bruce Springsteen
67. All Apologies – Nirvana
68. Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
69. Nature – The Muttonbirds
70. Something In The Air – Tom Petty
71. Just Looking – Stereophonics
72. Patience – Guns N Roses
73. Wonderwall – Oasis
74. Breaking The Girl – Chili Peppers
75. Money Nothing – Dire Straights
76. Paint It Black – Rolling Stones
77. Taylor – Jack Johnson
78. Help From Friends – The Beatles
79. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
80. Where Is My Mind – The Pixies
81. About A Girl – Nirvana
82. Great Wide Open – Tom Petty
83. Just – Radiohead
84. People Are Strange – The Doors
85. Man On The Moon – R.E.M
86. Creep – Radiohead
87. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
88. Brick In The Wall – Pink Floyd
89. Brimful Of Asha – Cornershop
90. A Hard Days Night – The Beatles
91. Down A Dream – Tom Petty
92. You'll Be A Woman – Urge Overkill
93. Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix
94. I Fought The Law – The Clash
95. In Bloom – Nirvana
96. Dakota – Stereophonics
97. Yellow – Coldplay
98. Scar Tissue – Chili Peppers
99. Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
100. Island In The Sun – Weezer
101. 1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
102. Friday Im In Love – The Cure
103. Loyal – Dave Dobbyn
104. Lola – The Kinks
105. My Sharona – The Kinks
106. Light My Fire – The Doors
107. Lounge Act – Nirvana
108. What I Got – Sublime
109. Another One Bites Dust – Queen
110. Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
111. Mr Brightside – The Killers
112. Blister In Sun – Violent Femmes
113. Bohemian Like – Dandy Warhols
114. Everlong – Foo Fighters
115. Santeria – Sublime
116. Shook Me All Night Long – ACDC
117. Give Me Novacane – Green Day
118. Under The Bridge – Chili Peppers
119. Common People – Pulp
120. Personal Jesus – Depache Mode
121. Ring Of Fire – Johnny Cash
122. Love Me Do – The Beatles
123. Heart Of Gold – Neil Young
124. Steal My Kisses – Ben Harper
125. Mary Janes Last Dance – Tom Petty
CLASSICAL GUITAR PIECES:
1. Bouree In E Minor – J.S Bach
2. Romanza – Traditional Spanish
3. Lagrima – Francisco Tarrega
4. Study In A – Matteo Carcassi
5. Fur Elise – Beethoven
6. Greensleeves – Traditional
7. Czardas – Traditional Hungarian
8. Waltz In C – Ferdinando Carulli
9. Andante In Am – Ferdinando Carulli
10. Landler II – Johann Kaspar Mertz
11. Caprice – Matteo Carcassi
12. Bagatelle – Robert Schumann
13. Study In Em – Matteo Carcassi
14. Study In Am – Mauro Giuliani
15. Allegretto In C – Mauro Giuliani
16. Andantino In Em – Mauro Giuliani
17. Study In D – Fernando Sor
18. Andante – Christopher Gluck
19. Study in C Major – Francisco Tarrega
20. Andantino in C Major - Matteo Carcassi
ORIGINAL SONGS:
1. Visible Wind
2. Magic In This World
3. Fix It With
4. Switch Off
5. One More Lover
6. Day Dreaming
7. Final Breath
8. Magic In This World
9. Right Place Right Time
10. Looked Into The Future
11. Sympathy