Soft Plastics Whammy Bar May 13, 2023 (Concert Review)
Soft Plastics celebrated the release for their new album, Saturn Return, last night at Whammy, bringing along some old friends and making some new ones.
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Rita Mae – Whammy Bar, May 5, 2023 (Concert Review)
Rita Mae is a new pop artist from Auckland’s wild west coast who echoes her famous Sergeant Pepper character. Lovely Rita meter maid, lovely Rita meet ‘er Mae.
Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram – Powerstation, April 14, 2023 (Concert Review)
Christone Kingfish Ingram gives a phenomenal virtuoso blues guitar performance in his first appearance in New Zealand. An young man with a huge talent and heart.
Larkin Poe – Powerstation: April 13, 2023
Larkin Poe, those blues-rockin’ sisters from Georgia, returned to Auckland to shake up The Powerstation with power, precision, passion and a special guest at the finale.
WOMAD – Brooklands New Plymouth, 17-19 March 2023: Concert Review Part One
WOMAD – the World of Music, Art and Dance is celebrating it is twentieth year in New Plymouth. The music of the last one and a half days has been nothing short of brilliant. Womad has been in hiatus since 2020, following the Covid panic.
Tiny Ruins & Finn Andrews at the Tuning Fork 1 June 2022
Tiny Ruins with Finn Andrews at the Tuning Fork Birthdays are joyous occasions that warrant celebration. And celebration was in the air at the Tuning Fork last night. The cause? Both that we can be at live music again with ease after difficult and diffident times. And that this fine venue has now reached its […]
Sticky Fingers – Civic Theatre January 21, 2022
Sticky Fingers comes to Auckland. 50 years after The Rolling Stones released the album, New Zealand’s finest rockers put their stamp on these classic rock tracks…and more!
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: Greg Johnson – Powerstation July 9, 2021
Greg Johnson and his “Time Is A Traveller” Tour warmed up a chilly night in Auckland.
Louis Baker & Friends at The Hollywood Avondale 3 July 2021
A new sound is emerging from the soul singer/songwriter Louis Baker. A main of sentimental and a side of neo-soul was fashioned by the full-band and special guests who joined the artist last night at The Hollywood Avondale as they kicked off the nationwide tour of his Love Levitates EP.