Bones Hillman

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Bones Hillman (born 1958 as Wayne Stevens) is a New Zealand musician.

His first band was The Masochists, one of the early NZ punk acts, with his friends from the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Avondale (they were alternatively known as The Avondale Spiders), playing bass guitar. In late 1977 he joined the Suburban Reptiles, and appears on their first single, Megaton (Vertigo, 1978). The name Hillman was coined by the Suburban Reptiles manager for a press release and taken from the type of car he drove.

He left the band in early 1978 and joined the former Masochists in The Rednecks, who were a mainstay of the legendary Zwines punk scene in Auckland.

In late 1977 he joined the New Zealand band "The Swingers", with Phil Judd (ex-Split Enz), and Mark Hough (aka Buster Stiggs), ex-Suburban Reptiles. Their single Counting the Beat was a trans-Tasman number one smash before the band disintergrated in 1983.

Moving to Australia, from 1987 until 2002, he was a member of internationally known Australian rock band Midnight Oil, replacing Peter Gifford as bass player. After the dissolution of Midnight Oil, Hillman relocated to New Zealand, playing as a studio and live musician with Russell Crowe and his band, among others. Hillman moved with his family to Nashville, USA, in early 2007 to participate in the more active musical scene there.