Concert Review: Estère at The Civic Club, 21 March 2021
Into the Dream Cabaret of The Civic Club arises Estère. And her brand-new album, Archetypes, blossoms out into a full-blown immersive sound and vision feast.
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Concert Review: Spell On You, The Civic Club, 20 March 2021
Is everybody in? Let the ceremony begin. Spell On You. Lights go down and six people make their way onto the Civic Club stage. Candles and the smell of burning incense. There’s Delaney Davidson wearing a crown, Shayne Carter the old Rock Star, Theia the new Pop siren.
Concert Review: The RVMES at Pumphouse Theatre, 19 March 2021
The RVMES showcased their killer new album, Lifetime, to spectacular effect to an appreciative crowd at the historic The PumpHouse Theatre on Saturday night.
Concert Review: French For Rabbits at The Civic Club, 18 March 2021
If you mixed a bit of the Girl Group sound with masterful literary song-writing and spare textured musical backing you would have a good idea of what French For Rabbits delivered at the Civic Club tonight.
Prayas Theatre presents First World Problems 3.0 More Mirchi. No Milk
Aotearoa’s largest South Asian Theatre company, Prayas, serves First World Problems 3.0 — bigger, fresher and tastier— with a cast of 18 taking over Basement Theatre for the third time this April.
Concert Review: Emily Edrosa, Ben Woods & Louisa Nicklin – Whammy Bar March
Music of sombre moods and melodrama. Arty and theatrical. And then there was your abrasive Power Pop from headliner Emily Edrosa. A night of expansive genre-bending music leaking out into all areas but kept together by disciplined performances.
Album Review: Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories (Edel Germany)
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is an enjoyable blast of great and funny Rock’n’Roll with no remorse. Rev Orange Peel tackles the latest from the Grand Guignol of Rock Theatre.
Album Review: Sheppard, Kaleidoscope Eyes (Empire of Song)
Pop sensations from Brisbane Sheppard have released 15 singles from October 2019. All except one are here on this third album Kaleidoscope Eyes. A smooth shiny vehicle which does have the faint echo of Lucy in the Sky as the short instrumental title track invites everyone in.
Concert Review: Soul Salute to Van Morrison – Galatos February 27, 2021
It was a Wild Night as the spirit of the King of Celtic Soul, Van Morrison, was made flesh and, most importantly, sound.
Concert Review: Mireya Ramos -Tuning Fork February 25, 2021
Lady Latin Soul. Mireya Ramos is nothing but stunning in her debut Auckland performance. Founding member of America’s only all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache who performed at Womad 2020 last March. That seems like another planet now as the lockdown descended down upon the country that weekend.
