What Russell Brand would have you believe tonight’s show was about, and what it was actually about, are two very different things. Brand came onstage, a good half-hour later than scheduled, following a montage of aren’t-you-shocked photos of homeless people and Abu Ghraib prisoners and street protests and clips of Brand himself being interviewed on […]
So a few years ago it was announced that Toxic Holocaust would be hitting our shores, to great excitement. Then it was postponed. Then it just sorta dropped of the timetable, being indefinitely put on hold, then it was cancelled. People were pretty pissed, not just because they were hugely disappointed but because of the […]
Take salty sea dog Barry Saunders, pocket rocket Tami Neilson, wounded tom cat Delaney Davidson and mama’s sweetheart Marlon Williams, put them in a gothic cathedral chancel in front of a rose window, and pray. Over the next couple of hours you’ll meet the devil himself, hear the voices of angels and perhaps even bear […]
As Golden Dawn sheds it golden hue on the evening it’s clear that there’s great comradery between the bands on tonight’s bill. That spirit is carried through the evening as The Situations, The Transistors and The Low Fidelity play the third of the their four gig NZ tour supporting the release of The Situations’ new […]
There was a touch of class on K Road Friday night as Tuxedo hit the Studio for the launch of Splore 2016. The side project of Grammy-nominated soul singer Mayer Hawthorne and Hip Hop producer Jake One, Tuxedo is the result of an exchange of 80’s boogie funk mixtapes in 2006. The two realised […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber, it turns out, anticipated the World Wide Web and its greatest preoccupation. Following the criminally underrated Variations, and shortly before he lost the plot and decided that trains on rollerskates would make a compelling theme for a musical, Lloyd Webber recognised the world’s fascination with cats, and one of the West […]
Despite a cold, drizzling rain and an unexpected visit by the fire department, The Others Way Festival can definitely be chalked up as a success. Spread across seven venues along Auckland’s K-Road, it was easy to move around from show to show, the music was diverse and exciting and it sold out. I started my […]
The five-day Auckland International Cabaret Season kicked off last night with Tim Finn’s solo show, White Cloud and then a parade of seven female vocalists paying tribute to Billie Holiday inLady Sings The Blues. Tim Finn’s one man show…well, ok, two man…guitarist Brett Adams sat quietly in the corner playing along with Finn’s piano and […]
Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte & Emma Thompson 104 minutes/M – Offensive language and sexual references Bill Bryson – yes, THAT Bill Bryson of prolific popular travel writing fame – has retired and is about to settle into all that new found freedom allows. Personal family dramas are forcing him to take stock of himself […]
You wouldn’t have thought a jazz covers band would be on a 100-date tour, but thanks to YouTube, Postmodern Jukebox made their Southern Hemisphere debut at a packed Powerstation. PMJ is the brainchild of American musician Scott Bradlee, who takes pop music in a time machine back to likes of ragtime, vintage jazz, doo-wop and […]