James Taylor – Spark Arena: April 30, 2024 (Concert Review)
James Taylor and his All Star Band helped bring April to an end in style with a tour-closing, hit-filled, crowd-pleasing show that brought smiles both to Taylor and his fans.
James Taylor and his All Star Band helped bring April to an end in style with a tour-closing, hit-filled, crowd-pleasing show that brought smiles both to Taylor and his fans.
The Bill Withers Social Club met in Auckland last Saturday night with Troy Kingi acting as host, seated front and centre and surrounded by some of New Zealand’s finest as they paid tribute to the man whose songs touched so many lives.
Dragon brought their 50th Anniversary Tour to Auckland’s Town Hall and The 13th Floor’s Karen McCarthy was their to revel in the nostalgia while photographer Chris Zwaagdyk put his camera to good use.
A last minute venue change landed Chris Isaak and his band at the more intimate Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre here in Auckland as Chris and the band closed out their tour in style.
The Dandy Warhols… will forever be associated with recent visitor Brian Jonestown Massacre due to the opus documentary DIG!. Their style of eclectic alternative punk rock is still aweing and daunting audiences 30 years on, a history of hits and misses has dogged them, but with a late 90s/early 2000s cache of songs like: Bohemian […]
Beth Orton finally made back to Auckland, 10 years later, and 6 months delayed with her November show at the Powerstation finally happening in April.
Delaney Davidson performed to a packed house at Auckland’s Q Theatre last night. The 13th Floor’s Aaron Christiansen was on the scene with his camera and his pen.
2018 was the last time Skillet graced our shores. I was there when they played banger after banger of big stadium rock anthems. Tonight was more of the same, but there was no contempt in the familiar. Instead, the multi-award-winning Christian rock band had a loyal fan following that knew all the words, were ready […]
Carcass, A name synonymous with uncompromising sonic brutality, these UK grindcore pioneers, were joined by US melodic death metallers The Black Dahlia Murder and Melbourne’s groovy death metal supergroup Flesh Merchant in a night of unrelenting metal crescendos that rattled the bones of Tamaki Makaurau’s Galatos.
Jenny Mitchell has made her musical journey from Gore to Wellington and now to The 13th Floor in Auckland, where she and her sister Nicola treated 50 or so lucky fans to a beautiful Saturday night of Kiwi-style Country.