Album Review: The Gold Needles – What’s Tomorrow Ever Done For You? (JEM)
Power Pop Yorkshire band The Gold Needles time-travel back to England of the mid-Sixties when The Beatles were re-inventing popular music from the inside.
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Concert Review: Jackie Bristow, Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, 21 February 2021
Country music artist Jackie Bristow plays like she was born and raised in a Winnebago travelling constantly between Nashville and Memphis. She is from Gore, so she is Kiwi. And raised in the home of Country music New Zealand.
Concert Review: Fiona Pears and Connor Hartley-Hall, OSPA Theatre, Onewhero 14 February 2021
The show was titled South of France. The virtuoso violinist and guitarist took flight from the opening song and captivate us all with music that could casts spells. Fiona Pears would easily be one of the best violinists I’ve heard. A child prodigy from Christchurch. Won a talent show at age six. Playing in national […]
Concert Review: Takadimi, Anthology Lounge, 10 February 2021
An enthralling show of East-West Fusion Jazz by Takadimi kicked off the year for the Creative Jazz Club in Auckland. Virtuoso tabla player Manjit Singh, originally from Punjab Province leads a group which takes us on a magic carpet ride of sound which feels rooted in familiar American Jazz, but from which older Eastern music […]
Concert Review: DARTZ, Whammy Bar, Auckland 13 February 2021
Four mates from Parliamentary Services in Capital City pub-crawl their way up the country to slam out some high-energy Old-School Punk in front an enthusiastic K Road crowd. Above ground the street is shredded. In the dark pits below ground the DARTZ are shredding.
Concert Review: Kiwigrass Part 2
More from Rev Orange Peel on his three-day immersion in Kiwi Bluegrass!
Concert Review: Kiwigrass, Mighty River Domain, Lake Karapiro 5 -7 February 2021
The third New Zealand Bluegrass festival, held in the absence of international artists, establishes a NZ home for this vital American Roots country with home-grown acts both old and new.
Concert Review: Dragon, Tuning Fork, 3 February 2021
The legendary Kiwi band are in their 49th year and they emerge from their quarantine bubble from some Chelsea Hotel of Ageless Rock Stars to lay down a spirited and heartwarming set of great Power Pop and Rock’n’Roll. Taking care of business, and working overtime.
Concert Review: Auckland Folk Festival, Kumeu Showgrounds 29 January to 1 February 2021 Part 2
The 48th Auckland Folk Festival went ahead this year despite some last-minute threats of a lockdown. It was a stunning success due to the quality and vast breadth of styles and genres that we all enjoyed over three days.
Concert Review: Auckland Folk Festival, Kumeu Showgrounds 29 January to 1 February 2021
The 48th Auckland Folk Festival almost didn’t make it. Nervous times as the progress of coronavirus in Auckland dominated the news. Festival President Nigel Robertson is MC for Sunday night’s Showcase Concert, and it was nervous times right up to Opening Evening on Friday. Part 1 of 2.
