Splore 2023 – Tapapakanga Park: Feb 23-26, 2023
Splore happened last weekend despite the weather. Our intrepid reporter Gab McDonnell was there to catch the vibe.
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North West Wine, Beer And Food Festival: The Hunting Lodge: Feb. 11, 2023
The North West Wine, Beer and Food Festival managed to entertain a few thousand music and food fans despite threatening clouds and gusting winds.
Hollie Smith – Coming In From The Dark: Album Review
Hollie Smith ’s distinctive powerful voice lays out an intensely emotional ride of an album. Themes of loss, grief and death but you can climb on board this Gospel train and sense salvation. There is some of the Spirit in the Dark of Aretha. A little choke and sob of Gladys Knight. The soaring songbird […]
Hollie Smith On Coming In From The Dark: Interview
Hollie Smith finally releases her new album, Coming In From The Dark, this Friday after 5 long years and a further COVID-related delay. Here she is to tell us why it took so long.
13th Floor Uptown Lowdown Episode 8 Is Here!
Uptown Lowdown Ep8 (Lockdown Edition V2) brings you the best new music, interviews and music news from the 13th Floor.
Hollie Smith Teams Up With Raiza Biza on What About
Hollie Smith ‘s new album, Coming In From The Dark, is due out in October, but today she releases the single and video for What About and here she is to tell us all about it!
New Song Of The Day: Hollie Smith – Coming In From The Dark
Hollie Smith teams up with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for her first new song in five years, Coming In From The Dark.
Concert Review: Hollie Smith – Ponsonby Social Club September 11, 2020
“These songs are the bones”, says Hollie Smith early in her show, the second this week at the Ponsonby Social Club.
NZ Number 1 Album, Waiata Anthems, to be reimagined live at The Civic
The NZ Top 40 Number 1 album Waiata Anthems is being reimagined live at The Civic this September for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2020 – Māori Language Week. One year on from the iconic album release, Annie Crummer, Bic Runga, Drax Project, Che Fu, Hollie Smith, Don McGlashan, MELODOWNZ and Stan Walker are […]
Hollie Smith & Urzila Carlson Headline Tuning Fork Reopening Shows
From Friday, May 29, Together Again, will feature a rotating line-up of local musicians, comedians and performers starting with South African-New Zealander and multi award-winning comedian, URZILA CARLSON alongside Ray O’Leary, Nick Rado (MC) and Ruby Esther at The Tuning Fork in Auckland. The soulful HOLLIE SMITH will grace the stage on Saturday, May 30. In a statement Live Nation New Zealand Chairman, Stuart Clumpas said: “Live Nation […]