New Model Army – Tuning Fork: May 7, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
After 45 years of making politically-charged punk rock, New Model Army rolled into Auckland for the first time…or at least a couple of them did.
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Bad Manners – Tuning Fork: April 16, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
50 years! Well the genesis was there in 1976, however their first live show wasn’t until 1978. But really, that’s just splitting hairs (pun intended) Bad Manners were a 100+ weeks feature in the British Singles Charts in the early 1980’s, with their take on two-tone and ska. While the onward decades have seen breakup, […]
Kristin Hersh & Jon Muq – The Tuning Fork: March 21, 2025
24 hours after enthralling a nearly-full house at The Vic in Devonport, Kristin Hersh was back on stage in Auckland, this time at The Tuning Fork and this time, sharing the bill with Jon Muq.
God Is An Astronaut – Tuning Fork: February 11, 2025
Twenty years plus since creation and 11 albums on, Ireland’s God Is An Astronaut have finally made it to the shores of Aotearoa, well Te Ika-a-Māui at least, for two shows. Still fronted by founders and twin brothers Niels and Torsten Kinsella, with Lloyd Hanney on drums, GIAA play a synthesis of post-prog-punk-pyschadelia with a […]
Everclear – Tuning Fork: January 23, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Everclear took a sold out audience back in time as they brought some “old school 90s alternative rock & roll” to Auckland’s Tuning Fork.
Billie Marten – Tuning Fork: January 5, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
British singer/songwriter Billie Marten made her New Zealand concert debut last night at Auckland’s Tuning Fork in front of an audience of very enthusiastic fans.
Mannequin Pussy – Tuning Fork: December 13, 2024
Mannequin Pussy, fronted, nay commanded, perhaps by frontwoman Marisa “Missy” Dabice, made their debut visit to Australasia this month, after 14 years in existence. Wordsmith Simon Coffey & photographer Christopher Warne checked out their last show of their tour, in Tamaki Makaurau.
HEAVEN OR HELL? PRINS Sets the Stage for an Iconic 2025 NZ Tour!
New Zealand’s rising pop sensation PRINS returns home to Kiwi stages in 2025 with her much-anticipated Heaven or Hell tour, a show promising to be her most daring and captivating yet.
ROACHFORD Announces – Then and Now Greatest Hits New Zealand Tour
One of the most compelling and consistent soul artists the UK has produced, ROACHFORD, finally returns to New Zealand for the First Time Since 1995 for the Then and Now Greatest Hits Tour.
Ash – Tuning Fork: October 16, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Ash returned to Auckland’s Tuning Fork and The 13th Floor was on the scene with Monique Perera providing the words and Den O’Keeffe the pictures.