Weka Records

19/08/2026

We are as pleased as ever to release our 15th album and what better one to have than 2026's 'West Coast Compilation Number Four'. Another six of our fine and unique West Coast, South Island, New Zealand original artists plus the usual cohort of helping musicians all adding to the brew and recorded, mixed, mastered and manufactured at our own South Street Studio in Runanga.

This year we've feature Ben Roper, Kay Row, Butch McBride, Andrezza & Toni, Tonika Tibbotts and Jeremy Burgess-Milne.
So, another 12 months or so of effort comes to a close with this release in digital and cd form.

Buy your copy off this Bandcamp link.

11 track album

11/08/2026

CD's are available off Bandcamp too. Studio burnt, hand made. $25 + $10 p&p. Get a real souvenir you can hold in your hand and put in your cd player. 🙂

04/06/2026

Come down to HopGoblin in the city tomorrow night, Friday 5th June from 6pm, to hang out with The Runanga Blues Band and other cracking local artists who've featured on our West Coast compilations over the years.

You can also pick up a souvenir copy of their latest album 'Home Again' (or any other Weka Records release we have in the box) for the special gig price of $20.

See you there 🙂

Tomorrow night, Friday 5th June, at HopGoblin Greymouth the band will run through the whole of our 'Home Again' album here ably reviewed by our very own Greymouth Star.

6pm it's Double Happy, 6:30 Shakey Ground, 7:30 The Brewery Hill Band and, closing out the night from 9pm, The Runanga Blues Band.

Special edition CD's will be available across the bar for the super cheap price of $20. See you there. 🙂

20/04/2026

The Runanga Blues Band's 'Live at the Barrytown Settlers Hall' CD is now available on very limited numbers

Hand made at South Street Studio in Rumanga as always and yours for just $25 plus $10 postage and packaging.

Or you can get one at a gig.

🙂

10/04/2026

The second release for the day is also the Runanga Blues Band. This time the entire set from their September 2025 live gig at the legendary Barrytown Settlers Hall. Currently only available as a cd quality digital download but soon to be available on studio made cd.

Cheap, it's cheap cheap cheap. 🐥

15 track album

10/04/2026

Today is a double release day with two albums dropping from The Runanga Blues Band and our first release for 2026. First up is their inaugural studio album 'Home Again'. Ten groovy rock and roll tracks 12 months in the making at South Street Studio Runanga.

Available as digital download or on cd.

WK013, lucky release number 13. Get your copy on Bandcamp for not very much money. 😊

10 track album

06/06/2025

2025's West Coast Compilation Number Three is now released and available for your listening pleasure and purchase. Thank you kindly. The release gig is this afternoon, 7th June, 3pm and the Buck's Head Tavern Taylorville. See you there if you can make it. 🙂

12 track album

01/06/2025

The CD stock box is now full up with studio made, hand built, original runs of Layla Moth's "MUSIC-L-CHEMY' album and Weka Records 2025's 'West Coast Compilation Number Three'. Plus re-pressings of the sold out 'West Coast Compilation Numbers One & Two', Trevor Hayes unique avant garde 'poetry set within music' album 'Fiasco Junction', Geoff Columbus's 'Songs of Family and the Coast' and just a couple of sets of Soulfire's 6 CD 'Life's Times' epic. All bound for sales across the bar at our West Coast Compilation Number Three release party at the Buck's Head Tavern Taylorville from 2pm on Saturday 7th May.

$20 each (except for Soulfire's 6 CD epic) with discounts if you buy two or more. Get 'em across the bar on the day. 🙂

01/06/2025

This is the first time we've managed a double cd release. And at a gig to boot. 😀

WK007 - The West Coast Compilation Number Three. 2025's compilation album featuring 12 original songs by Lunar Reef, Freedom Alley, Shimmer & Stone, Rick Watson, The Barry Benfell Band and Dave Pugh. The official Bandcamp release date is Saturday the 7th June with our hand made South Street Studio cd's available for the special introductory price of $20 at the release party at the Buck's Head Tavern Taylorvile from 2pm on Saturday the 7th June and...

WK008 - Layla Moth's MUSIC-L-CHEMY official Bandcamp release date is Friday the 13th June at the Two Thumb Brewery Nelson but 20 pre-release cd's will be made available for the special one of price of $20 also at the Buck's Head Tavern gig in Taylorville on the 7th June. Plus a performance by Layla and her band.

So come on down to the Buck's Head Tavern Taylorville on Saturday 7th June from 2pm, pick up a great souvenir cd and spend part (or all) of your Saturday arvo / evening among friends listening to some of our great West Coast artists put on a show just for you.

See you there or bee square. 😊