Has the Tuning Fork ever seen such gusto in both a band and crowd? Perhaps. But I doubt it. The Longest Johns – three lads from Bristol – take the crowd on a rollicking voyage from the get-go, with the opening songs generating energy usually reserved for an encore.
Albi & The Wolves released a new album in 2023 called Light After The Dark and now they are taking the show on the road across New Zealand and Australia.
There’s something profoundly life-affirming about seeing Albi and the Wolves play live. It’s the joyful energy, their clearly obvious enjoyment of playing and the sense of hope that pervades their performances.
New Music Friday the 13th is lucky for fans of Kiwi music. We’ve got four new albums to tell you about plus one from overseas. Check them out here.
Butter Wouldn’t Melt, the Wellington-based folk duo, squeezed in one last show before lockdown set in on Saturday night on Auckland’s Dominion Road.
It was another excellent lineup of Kiwi music, this time at Anthology Lounge on K’Rd as Looking For Alaska celebrated the release of their album, Light And Shadow with a few of their friends.
Albi & The Wolves started 2020 off with a bang, following the release of their acclaimed sophomore album This Is War in mid 2019. Winning over fans in Sydney at the Inland Sea of Sound Festival and at the Folk Alliance International satellite conference in Geelong, the trio arrived home just in time to rock the Dell stage at WOMAD 2020 in […]
We here at 13th Floor were thrilled when we learned that Albi & The Wolves were releasing their new album, This Means War. To find out more about the album, we invited Albi guitarist and vocalist Chris Dent over to take us through the record song by song, track by track.
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Auckland’s very own Albi & The Wolves moved The Tuning Fork to dance last night with a rousing set of down-to-earth folk and Americana. On a rainy Saturday night they warmed the room with a set steeped in musical communal tradition, without ever feeling stale despite their reliance on familiar folk-rock idioms.
