The Magus in Black, Delaney Davidson, invokes the wild spirit Gods and Demons with candles and smoke, a whiff of Sulphur and brimstone. The Shaman two-step, wild eyes and Little John the Conqueroo. The dim stage of the Ponsonby Social Club resonates to Southern Swamp Blues.
Music as soundscapes, theatre, animated sculpture and molten energy continually forming into mass and dissolving again. Big ambitions laid out at the Tuning Fork tonight and as if by alchemy opening out the room to massive plains of sound. City of Souls perform with manic physical energy and the sweat flows freely from singer Richie […]
A packed Powerstation and Mild Orange are melting out their Dream Pop into the well juiced revelers and musical questers. No concept of social distancing whatsoever. One mask in total. Freeing the mind and spirit from the dark forces of Control.
Mako Road are singing The Beatles’ Come Together towards the end of the show. Increasing its rhythmic thrust with a Reggae backbeat. A second sell-out show and a night of vibrant and superbly executed Indie Pop from them and their two support acts.
Reissue: First released 2005 Arising from the fertile soil that was Los Angeles Rock’n’Roll Punk of the late Seventies. Offspring of The Cramps, X and more directly The Gun Club and their glorious debut lost masterpiece Fire of Love album.
The loose creative music collective consciousness that is Fly My Pretties laid it down and played in triumphant spirit from start to finish in the Main Concert Chamber on a warm Saturday eve.
French For Rabbits launches their country-wide Dark Arts Tour. A dream of a show. And the music of dreams when we inhabit that mysterious realm. Rev Orange Peel files this review.
JessB debuted three years ago at Neck of the Woods. Late Saturday night moving like an MMA warrior, rapping and rocking the house in triumph. Rapidly gaining fans, working the music circuit in New Zealand. Also, time in Europe and America connecting to and absorbing influences.
I remember watching the waves roll in, numbered in the thousands. The Beths are basking in waves of triumphant spirit as their towering Pop anthem, Jump Rope Gazers, is radiating through the packed Auckland Town Hall. With an extra boost of inspirational energy, as is their whole show tonight.
New Auckland band King Ketchup drop this fiery debut album, intent on levelling everything in their path. The blitz and pyrotechnics of frantic computer games as played by Rick and Morty.