10cc brought their Ultimate Ultimate Hits Tour to Auckland last night and The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns took to the ferry to find out if one original member makes a band. Chris Zwaagdyk provides photographic evidence.
With 10cc’s Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour just days away, here is singer/songwriter Graham Gouldman to take us, track by track, through the making of their classic album, The Original Soundtrack, 50 years after its release.
UK legends 10cc will brighten up New Zealand’s winter, bringing their Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour to Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch in July 2025.
Graham Gouldman is not only the front man for 10CC, he is also one of the most respected and successful songwriters of his generation. Here he is as he prepares to tour NZ.
Wowsers! What a night! For all the nay-sayers who claim the current iteration of 10cc aren’t the ‘real deal’ because Graham Gouldman is the only original member… Phooey! Caitlin Smith was there – and here’s her review!
Hold onto your hats, NZ concert-goers. Huge tour news! Plus1 proudly brings to Auckland Platinum Sounds 2020 – a week-long series featuring six of the best platinum international and local hitmakers: Icehouse (Australia) with the Narcs, 10cc (UK) with Jan Hellriegel, and the voice of Ultravox, Midge Ure in an awesome double-bill with the Mockers.
In the early 1970s, as they managed their transition from anonymous churners-out of slick but disposable pop and into a coherent band in their own right, 10cc produced some of the most intelligent, engaging music of the decade. Their pigeonhole-unfriendly music, encompassing straight ahead rockers like Art For Art’s Sake, typically written by Eric Stewart […]