Concert Review: Pumice, Wine Cellar, 24 June 2020
An evening of Skronk. Noise into beauty. Art from chaos. From Pumice and opening act Oksun Ox and my first time seeing both.
An evening of Skronk. Noise into beauty. Art from chaos. From Pumice and opening act Oksun Ox and my first time seeing both.
Christian Lee Hutson hails from Los Angeles and maintains a low profile. He’s collaborated with Phoebe Bridger on her well received Folk Americana albums of recent times. She plays some keyboards and piano on Beginners. And he sounds like Paul Simon, especially on the opening track, Atheist. But that’s all I really know about him.
The Ponsonby Social Club audience were treated to a night of super Hip-Hop Funk Jazz from Tribute to the Roots, alumni of Yoko-Zuna minus one and a plus one.
Carnivorous Plant Society deliver an immaculately executed set of their distinctive musical pastiche songs to an appreciative seated audience in the first of two shows last night at the Wine Cellar.
Walking into the Wine Cellar concert cave half an hour prior to kick-off, and looking at the wall art which some future android will try and decipher, I see a large American flag and a beatific portrait of the New Zealand Prime Minister, in the style of the iconic Che Guevara image. America is wild […]
Richard and Linda Thompson were a dream musical pairing. Extraordinary voice and extremely gifted guitarist. Folk music royalty. Sufi’s of London again. If they were to have a baby, he would sound like… Teddy Thompson.
Larkin Poe are sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell. They are from Georgia by birth, and reside in Nashville currently.
Finn Andrews and Dictaphone Blues took the stage for the 3rd weekend of Together Again at the Tuning Fork last night. Rev Orange Peel reviews a night of “intense Folk.”
Two singer songwriters cast a glow over the Wine Cellar last night. Tom Cunliffe and Louisa Nicklin evoked some old school feels in two brilliant sets. Rev Orange Peel files this review.
Steve Earle’s latest album, Ghosts of West Virginia, arrives full of Appalachian hillbilly, the Blue Ridge Mountains and unabashed, bluegrass fiddle. It is also the soundtrack to an off-Broadway play. Rev Orange Peel offers his review. ——————————————————————