Larry Killip bio/profile

Larry Killip is an independant music producer/songwriter/artist residing in New Zealand. Larry makes eclectic pop/rock that along with Beatlesque influences tends to accentuate the positive. He is also known as producer of more than a few famous Television and Radio jingles in New Zealand.

A veteran of live music in New Zealand, Larry has played in many bands from the late 60’s through to the present day. Notably his band “Larry and The Ladders” had several single releases and television appearances in the early 1980’s.

Larry is an accomplished recording engineer and apart from his own albums has recorded many artists from tape days to digital daw, starting mid 70’s with his home studio in Sandringham Rd Auckland - 1980’s running Echopark Studios in City Rd Auckland - 1990’s sharing time at the famous Lab Studios Symonds St Auckland. Then as the Internet improved Larry worked from his home Studio in Lynfield Auckland and has been based there ever since.

Any particular present day could see him recording his own music, producing a jingle or doing audio post on a television program or tinkering with his 1962 MK2 Jaguar.

First Band: The Zarks

First Record: “Home” B/w “I’ve Got Time” Philips 6036012

First TV appearance: Happen Inn 1972

Subsequent TV: Studio One, Radio With Pictures, Shazam, Drop Of Kulcha, Telethons, TV1 Good Morning Show, TV3 “Get Your Act Together”, TVNZ7 The Ad Show, Stratos “The Beat Goes On”