Georgia Lines & Friends – Civic Theatre: June 15, 2025
We go Under The Stars with Georgia Lines and her very special friends in what turns out to be a very special concert.
We go Under The Stars with Georgia Lines and her very special friends in what turns out to be a very special concert.
It was strange stepping into a venue that felt both completely new and intimately familiar – like walking forward and moving backward in time.
There’s awkward silence, and then there’s quiet. Somehow Jessica Pratt managed to keep a thousand or so people quiet for just under an hour and there was nothing awkward about it. In fact it was sublime.
Japanese Breakfast made their much-anticipated New Zealand concert debut last night, bringing their Melancholy Tour to a full house at Auckland’s iconic Town Hall.
This year NZ Music Month is leaking into June. At least on Waiheke where Hollie Smith has brought The Bones Tour to the island’s theatre. Sold out and not surprising. Despite only 40 minutes away by ferry, we rarely get the bigger names in Kiwi music here.
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With May coming to a close, we turn our attention to The Powerstation, where Chelsea Wolfe held court last night. The 13th Floor’s Simon Coffey and Brenna Jo Gotje file these words and images.
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Andrew Roachford brought his 80s-style r&b to the Tuning Fork while channeling the soul greats of the 60s and 70s.
Auckland was in full chaos mode. Rain poured down on a Wednesday at the final days of NZ music month, and just up the road from Auckland Town Hall, a surprise Lorde pop-up gig had fans scrambling to find the right queue. But inside the Town Hall, something entirely different was unfolding — a night […]