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.
Concert Review: Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders – Wine Cellar January 29, 2021
The product of the Church and the Crossroads, Carmen and the Devil walking side by side. American Roots music with deep connections to Celtic, Folk and Africa. Up step two troubadours dressed in black. Delaney and Barry may not have a pretty face like that earlier legendary American outfit. Hell, they kind of look scary […]
Concert Photos: Auckland Folk Festival, Kumeu, 30 January 2021
Wow…things couldn’t be more ideal for the first full day of the Auckland Folk Festival! The weather, the venue, the artists, the fans were all perfect yesterday. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda strolled the venue and came up with these photos. Great performances by The Eastern, Shimna’s List, Jenny Mitchell, The Black Quartet, The Harmonic […]
Concert Review: Ratso Lopdell House January 29, 2021
It may be hard to believe, but right here, right now, West Auckland may be the rock & roll capitol of the world. The boys in Ratso sealed that deal last night in (of all places) Titirangi.
Concert Review: A Tribute to MF DOOM – Ponsonby Social Club, Auckland January 28, 2021
The Tribute Quartet perform a rousing and compelling musical eulogy to the celebrated visionary and enigmatic underground Rapper MF DOOM. His death was announced just before the New Year by his family.
Concert Review: Mema Wilda – Anthology Lounge, January 23, 2021
Impressive new talent just keeps on coming here in NZ. Lockdown be damned, there is plenty of cool music being made by locals to last us. Last night it was Mema Wilda who was celebrating the release of a new single with a full band set at Anthology Lounge.
Concert Review: Michal Martyniuk – Ponsonby Social Club
From the ridiculous to the sublime, I dash from New Lynn to Ponsonby to catch Polish/Kiwi keyboard master Michal Martyniuk in concert.
Concert Review: Melanie – UFO January 21, 2021
No, this ain’t the Lay Down/Brand New Key Melanie who performed at Woodstock. This Melanie is a four-piece band of ratbag punk rockers from Glendene who play loud, fast and hard.
Concert Review: Colette Rivers – Wine Cellar January 16, 2021
In an intimate below-ground venue in the heart of Bohemian Auckland, Colette Rivers unpacks a powerful voice, the second in the series of live shows promoting her just-released debut album Memory Lake. Country Americana at its core but packed full of hooks and effects.
Concert Review: Come Together- Neil Young’s Live Rust – Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre January 16, 2021
They say Rust Never Sleeps…it was awake and loud last night in Auckland as an all-star Kiwi band set Neil Young’s music on fire and let it burn.
Concert Review: Tony Daunt & the Dauntless, Wine Cellar, 15 January 2021
Tony Daunt is onstage, slicked-back hair, Gretsch guitar and wearing an iconic black Country and Western patterned shirt. The five-piece band has more beards than the Twitter boardroom. They run through a nice Country Americana set with the tone on downbeat and melancholy.
Concert Review: Corduroy – Anthology Lounge January 9, 2021
Wellington band Corduroy step out boldly on the Anthology Lounge stage and proceed to deliver a remarkably lively and energetic set. With feet planted in mid Seventies R’n’B to Pop, they branch out from there and show how a good Power Pop unit can unshackle the hips and the mind will follow.
Festival Review: Bay of Islands Music Festival – Kainui Vineyards, Kerikeri January 8, 2021
Benee. Dave Dobbyn. The Beths. Melodownz. Benee headlined a magnificent afternoon of some of the cream of New Zealand’s artists. An undeniable charisma on stage that had rapturous response from a large number of the young audience who attended this festival. Not to exclude us older groups right up to the Boomers. She was an […]
Concert Review: Cloudy Single Release Party – Wine Cellar January 8, 2021
Cloudy with a chance of good musical vibes…that was the forecast as we headed on down to The Wine Cellar on this Friday night in Auckland.
Concert Review: Michael Morris & The Slow Loris – Whammy Bar January 7, 2021
The sun went down, the wind kicked up and a slight drizzle trickled down on Auckland’s K-Rd as Michael Morris & The Slow Loris brought their Pseudoephedrine Single Release Tour from Dunedin to Auckland.
13th Floor Top 10 Concerts of 2020
Its been a wild, strange year and finally 2020 is over. With Covid breathing down our necks the live music scene in New Zealand is still alive but struggling without any overseas artists allowed in the country.
Concert Review: Muroki, Tuning Fork, 18 December 2020
Muroki is another young New Zealand musician who is setting up for a meteoric rise in attention. He certainly has the goods for it as he shows tonight with his well-drilled band. A good friend of Benee who has done exactly the same thing. He is the first signing to her brand-new record label. Elton […]
Concert Review: Grounded Sounds – Tuning Fork December 18, 2020
A special show tonight. Six acts. Daffodils, LA Women, Rei, LAIIKA, Spaces and Sophie & Sam. From the freshly minted to the already-seasoned. Brought together courtesy of Music Helps. A charitable organisation formed in 2012 to assist musicians, and to help in times of distress.
Concert Review: Dead Famous People – Whammy Bar December 19, 2020
With Christmas just around the corner, revelers were in force last night all around Auckland. But folks who attended the 95bFM Wine Cellar & Whammy Bar Xmas Party 2020 had a chance to see a bit of Kiwi music history in the making.
Concert Review: Miles Calder and Being – The Wine Cellar November 18, 2020
While wild rock & roll was raging next door at Whammy, things were decidedly more mellow at The Wine Cellar last night.