Egregore and I — Songs From A Window (Bandcamp) (13th Floor EP Review)
Egregore and I/Elliot Tremlett — is Ōtautahi/Christchurch–based musician and writer who exists in two worlds: music and poetry.
Simon Coffey
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Awning, Ringlets & Cold Ceiling – Whammy: December 17, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Three bands, playing on the third day of the week, celebrating their release of three albums (one each) in 2025. A ruse, a play on words, a Xmas gift to their fans perhaps, at $20 a head, a cost of living crisis bargain, on hump day, in a stalwart venue.
SCRAN – Living Room (13th Floor Album Review)
Tāmaki Makaurau five-piece post-punk band SCRAN follow up their stunning 2024 debut EP To Your Heart’s Content with their debut album Living Room.
Mono Watt – words + noise (13th Floor Album Review)
Mono Watt is a trio comprising James Littlewood, Ross Cunningham and John Pain, collectively encompassing the arts in their visual, aural and written forms.
Displeasure – ANNIHILATION/BILLIONAIRE DEATH DRIVE (13th Floor Album Review)
Displeasure is a toru piece Whanganui/Te-Whanganui-a-Tara based side-project of stalwart Pōneke punk band Unsanitary Napkin.
Bar Italia – Hollywood Avondale: December 13, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Bar Italia, founded in 2020, this UK three-piece (five-piece when touring) were here just 18 months ago, hyped to the max on the back of two not-so-secretly-attractive twin albums: The Twits & Tracey Denim.
Dick Move – Western Springs Community Garden Hall: December 5, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Tamaki Makauru Punk Rockers, Dick Move were coming to the end part of an Aotearoa tour promoting their third album, Dream, Believe, Achieve.
MC50 – 10 MORE (earMUSIC) (13th Floor Album Review)
MC5, essentially just Wayne Kramer, follow on from last year’s album – Heavy Lifting, with a live album; MC50 – 10 More.
HDU – Double Whammy: November 28, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
It’s was the night before Tamaki Makaurau’s premier locally produced music festival, The Other’s Way, and Double Whammy was graced with creative royalty, High Dependency Unit or HDU, playing a much anticipated sideshow, further ennobled by the addition of avante garde violinist, composer and producer MOTTE, 13th Floor reviewer Simon Coffey was there to capture the taonga!
The Saints – Long March Through The Jazz Age (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.