This was a night for full sleeve tattoos and the singlets to show them, a night for short shorts, jorts and active wear, coupled with a lake of Catfish Billy merch, all enveloping a slathering horde of dudebros and their female equivalent.
Twenty-one years after their breakthrough album, Moseley Shoals, Ocean Colour Scene were set to play on Auckland’s Powerstation stage to a veritable ocean of expatriates. I felt I needed a passport to get into this gig, and having never been to England, after tonight I don’t think I need to: England came to me.
Greg Fleming and The Working Poor held the release of their ninth album, Working Poor Country at the Wine Cellar in Auckland last night, to a crowd that was thinner than me. It was a crying shame there were not more people in attendance, as Fleming showcased ten songs, (from albums past and present), that […]