Martin Phillipps

About the artist
Martin Phillipps (born in Dunedin on 2 July 1963; died 28 July 2024) was a New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist remembered for being co-founder and longest serving member of The Chills and for writing songs such as "Pink Frost" and "Kaleidoscope World". Phillipps wrote more than 500 songs confirming him as one of the world's most influential indie-pop songwriters, accumulating a body of work stretching back to the New Zealand punk scene of the late '70s.
Top songs
- Evermore
- February
- Evadene
- No More Tigers
- Haunt Me
- Residential Green Cell
- Secret Garden
- Crow
- Warm
- Bad Dancer
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- Martini
- Small Spark
- Witch's Hat
- Carabela
- Sleep Sirens
- Hawea
- Spring
- Submarine Bells
- Wet Blanket
- Kaleidoscope World
- Spring [Segment]
- Autumn Testament 20
- Spring Segment
- Pink Frost
- Jungle Law
- I Don't Want To Live Forever
- Liberty Or Love
- Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
- Evermore [Album Version]
- Entertainer
- Spring (Segment)
- This Is the Way
- Brave Words
- As Far As I Can See
- Underwater Wasteland
- Streets Of Forgotten Cool
- I Love My Leather Jacket
- The Male Monster From The Id
- The Oncoming Day
- Interview excerpt
- Background Affair
- Eazy Peazy
- Doledrums
- Evermore (Album Version)
- Soft Bomb
- I Can't Help You
- Easy Peazy
- Interview
- Liberty or Love (live)
- Evermore (Martin Phillips)
- Hokey Pokey
- I Won't Hurt You
- A Message To Pretty
- Lost in Future Ruins (live)
- Solitary Man (live)
- Yabba Dabba Do (live)
- Farewell Live Stream - 2PM NZT 9th August 2024
- Rolling Moon (live)
- Don't Be Memory (live)
- Come Home
- Pink Frost (Live at the Moth Club, September 2015)
- Past Part Past Fiction (live)
- Wet Blanket (live)
- Kaleidoscope World (live)
- Swimming in the Rain
- Dreams Are Free
- Juicy Creaming Soda
- Pink Frost (live at WFMU)
- Interview 1992
- Surrounded
- Lost in Future Ruins
- Motorway One
- Evermore [Album Version]/Album Version
- Juicy Creaming Soda (Live)
- Vampire Sweat
- A dog's life
- Since you left me
- 21
- 3 voices and a guitar
- Residential Green Cell (Live)
- Melodica
- I Love My Leather Jacket (Live)
- Muri Loves Ra
- Cold Feet
- Mandolin Thing 2
- Summer Segement
- Pink Frost (Live)
- Never Never Go
- Interview on Pink Frost
- Autumn Testament #20
- Tropical Loveland
- Lost in Space (live)
- February (live)
- Juicy Creaming Soda II (live)
- So Long (live)
- Come Home (live)
- Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn (live)
- Halo Fading (live)
- Doledrums (live)
- Track 05
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