More than music Shot over two nights at Kismet, a music video for Reece Milton’s single Take It Easy pulled together a myriad of local actors to create a glamorous black and white world harkening back to the Casablanca era. Judene Edgar takes a look at how it came together. Peanut Butter Vibes
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ucked away in the industrial zone of Nelson surrounded by shipping containers and storage facilities is StudioBox Creative recording studio, management company, and home of Antipodes Records. Unassuming from the outside, inside is a professional recording studio that is helping launch careers. Started as a passion project by bass guitarist, songwriter and producer Mat Charles of former Nelson band Urban to record their first album Everything Except Time, StudioBox Creative is now helping to launch the career of 21-year-old pop/rock guitar virtuoso and singer songwriter Reece Milton. Inspired by Guns n’ Roses lead guitarist Slash, Reece started teaching himself guitar with the help of the internet at age 15. At Nayland College he joined the band So Far, and together they placed second in the 2017 Smokefree Rockquest regional heat. The next year, with 7-piece band The Recliners, and Reece once again on guitar, they won the Smokefree Rockquest regional heat.
Reece began song writing which led to him needing to sing to work on his songs. “My parents were constantly telling me to sing, but I wasn’t very confident initially,” he says. “Then I went to Rock Camp at the Playhouse Café and Theatre and I surprised them at the finale concert by singing. I never would have thought I’d want to be the front man, but I enjoyed it so much that I haven’t stopped.” Reece entered a competition run by StudioBox Creative, winning a professional recording of his debut song Once In a Lifetime with legendary UK producer Greg Haver (of Manic Street Preachers and Melanie C fame) under the management of Jane Baken. Once in a Lifetime was released in 2019 and Reece was offered a management contract with StudioBox Creative. Perhaps best known for establishing Soundstage, Nelson’s longest running professional musical and performing arts school in 2008, as the daughter of professional jazz musician Rupert Winter, Jane has
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