Imagine Dragons have been touring, almost continuously, for nearly seven years, Dan Reynolds told last night’s Vector Arena audience. They’ve only managed to record two albums in that time, but they have honed their live act into a tight, sharp and utterly superb performance. The evening began with a reasonable, but not especially inspiring, opening […]
Notoriously-loud Brooklyn-based trio A Place To Bury Strangers shook up Auckland’s Kings Arms with a mind bending set heavy on distortion and feedback…and fog. Monday night at the Kings Arms and the faithful have shown up early, eager to catch opening act, Thee Run Coves. The local rockers didn’t disappoint, getting the crowd worked up […]
Tift Merritt started her show a little shakily, with sound issues and a couple of false starts in the first few numbers. She handled them like a pro, however, quipping that the missing left channel in her keyboard in one song was akin to her dress which kept trying to fall off her left shoulder. […]
A full bill at the Tuning Fork last night saw Tom Cunliffe, and then Skyscraper Stan, open for Holly Arrowsmith. Arrowsmith topped the bill, but she wasn’t the highlight of the show. Cunliffe kicked the evening off with a fairly rudimentary set of by-the-numbers folk numbers, one man and a guitar offering little new to […]
Manchester singer-songwriter Jamie Lawson opened to an attentive full house in the Tuning Fork with All Is Beauty, the first of an uninterrupted string of catchy and often achingly beautiful acoustic pop songs, hitting his stride quickly and confidently. His lovelorn serenades are reminiscent of Damien Rice, although not as dark in content and tone. Indeed Lawson […]
It’s nine o clock and there’s a pretty nice turn out at Whammy already, which is rad as Whammy gigs have a reputation for being late ones (although apparently they are trying to change that; so guys, turn up to gigs at Whammy on time!). There’s plenty of familiar faces, but the older faces, the […]
Aww Hell No. I arrived at the Studio around 8PM for the Hellyeah gig; I was super looking forward to it, I’ve spoken to Chad Grey a few times and he is a really fuckin’ nice dude. First sign something was amiss was the chained and bolted front doors with a sign saying ‘Hellyeah […]
A bill can be confusing. I read The Tuning Fork’s billing for last night’s show to mean that Swamp Thing and The Warratahs would be playingtogether; oh, what a wonderful noise that would have been. Instead, as drummer Michael Barker explained to me after the show, the idea for last night’s concert came out of […]
So last night was the night for pop punk legends Good Riddance, and first impression walking in to the always great but oft forgotten Galatos was ‘oh god, it’s a total Sausage Fest (A feeling that intensified throughout the night), but a pretty damn good turn out for a Thursday night in Auckland’. Doors were […]
Guitarist extraordinaire Marc Ribot performed a rare solo acoustic show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork. It was a showcase of intense musicianship that left the assembled fans spellbound, despite the fact that there was very little personal interplay between Ribot and his audience. This was very much a case of an artist letting his music do […]