Concert Review: The Hellbilly Hop at The Thirsty Dog, August 14, 2021
Hellbilly Hop! Saturday night was time to put your cat clothes on and get down to some serious rockabilly… NZ style.
Concert Review: Shapeshifter at Spark Arena 14 Aug 2021
Shapeshifter are behemoths as a top-draw live band. Here at home in New Zealand and around the world culminating in the festival of music pilgrimage, Glastonbury. A large fan base is here at the Spark Arena in noisy support and they get a state-of-the-art light show to go with a superb heavy-heavy Monster sound.
Concert Review: Mako Road at Powerstation, 12 August 2021
Mako Road celebrates their new album Stranger Days at the Powerstation with No Cigar as an opener. Not a soul entered without their dancing shoes, and none left without a catchy melody stuck in their heads.
Concert Review: Keeva at Wine Cellar, August 11, 2021
Keeva is a brand-new singer-songwriter from Auckland who delivers an impressive set of melodic and upbeat Pop sounds via a piercingly powerful voice.
Concert Review: Graeme James – Tuning Fork August 13, 2021
It was four seasons in one night as Graeme James brought his Seasons Tour to Auckland’s Tuning Fork.
Concert Review: Ladi6 – Phoenix Cabaret August 12, 2021
Ladi6 and the revived Alpha Sessions rolled into Auckland last night. With the Friday night show sold out, Thursday’s was the place to be… plenty of room for shake, shake, shakin’.
Concert Review: Troy Kingi & Delaney Davidson at Leigh Sawmill, 8 August 2021
The 13th Floor goes to Leigh! Marty Duda traveled north to catch Troy Kingi and Delaney Davidson at Leigh Sawmill. Was the trip worth it?
Concert Review: Bad for Education at The Wine Cellar, 6 Aug 2021
Love is a burning thing! Bad For Education are a tight Hard-Pop Punk four-piece band and in an inspired bit of misdirection they start with Ring of Fire! They are showcasing brand-new album Eyes on the Sky and they are about to blast off.
Concert Review: Ben and Brody at Cassette 9, 7 August 2021
Kiwi siblings Ben and Brody light up Cassette 9 with a younger audience than usual, their clean pop sound and youthful stage persona is refreshing and impressive, and I can see why they have been successful in competitions such as the Smokefree Rockquest.
Concert Review: Stack of Blankets at the Thirsty Dog, 5 Aug 2021
Stack of Blankets Delivered a night of soul-jazz to The Thirsty Dog, as part of their Funk and Fusion Thursdays.
Concert Review: Lips – Neck of the Woods August 5, 2021
Lips and Phoebe Rings celebrated the end of their national tour in style at Auckland’s Neck Of The Woods.
Concert Review: The Subliminals – The Wine Cellar July 31, 2021
For those who couldn’t get enough of The Subliminals at the Flying Nun 40th show a few days earlier, the band reunited one more time for a room full of hearty fans at Auckland’s Wine Cellar.
Concert Review: Chris Priestley and the Unsung Heroes at The Bunker, 2 August 2021
Chris Priestley and the Unsung Heroes take us on a musical trip through history and the stories of New Zealand heroes and outlaws. This band are the Kiwi incarnation of that celebrated Last Waltz one. They present these tales wrapped in Folk and Americana.
Concert Review: Lichtbeuger Tenth Anniversary Show, Thirsty Dog, 31 July 2021
Lichtbeuger are Industrial Art Noise duo of singer Adam Colegrove and metal machine music Maestro Drew Lyon. They blast, pound and ravage the Thirsty Dog tonight and set the lovely Goth maidens dancing. Maybe graced by the presence of Fairy Goth-Mother and some enchanting Eastern cobra-dancing.
Concert Review: The Ministry Of Folk Presents Bob Dylan Million Dollar Birthday Bash – Auckland Guide Hall July 30, 2021
Bob Dylan Million Dollar Birthday Bash – where Auckland’s Dylanologists gathered together at the Guide Hall in Mt Eden to literally sing the praises of the great man who recently turned 80.
Concert Review: TOI at Neck of the Woods, 30 July 2021
TOI delivered tight rhythmic grooves of Funk and Soul and disciplined extended jams to Neck of the Woods, one of the subterranean music haunts of iconic Karangahape Road, late on Friday night.
Concert Review: Connan Mockasin at The Hollywood Avondale, 29 July 2021
Connan Mockasin took the Hollywood Avondale on a sidelong journey through his wild imagination last night. Jemilah Ross-Hayes was on hand to review the show. She’s still not sure what it was about.
Concert Review: Tiny Ruins Whammy Bar, July 28, 2021
Celebrating 10 years since the release of debut album Some Were Meant For Sea, Tiny Ruins (aka Hollie Fullbrook) takes the stage at Whammy solo, guitar in hand, stories to tell.
Concert Review: Courtney Barnett Elemental Nights, Auckland Town Hall 25 July 2021
A dreaded Sunday and we meet at the Town Hall gates, Keats and Yeats perhaps on your side, while wild Courtney Barnett is on stage. Solo Song Poet and left-handed guitarist. A big stage and the massive Town Hall organ behind, but Barnett fills the sold-out space with just her presence and her intense soulful […]
Concert Review: Georgia Lines at Anthology Lounge, 24 July 2021
Georgia Lines looking fabulously androgynous in a double-breasted suit and blue eye-shadow, delivered a defining set of superior soulful Pop to a near-capacity Anthology Lounge crowd.