Avangard at the Railway Station

Just because the Fringe Fest­iv­al is over (and con­grats to all the win­ners at the Fringe Awards), does­n’t mean you can­’t still see some avant garde per­form­ance art on the streets. Oh no. We’ve already missed a couple of per­form­ances by Avangard – the pro-glam art band from Esto­nia – but I fully intend to […]

The Weekend that Was II: Gigs Galore

As well as all the sport­ing cham­pi­on­ships and fest­ivals tak­ing place around Wel­ling­ton over the week­end, there was also an insane num­ber of top gigs. Top loc­al tal­ents The Black Seeds, Pase­load, Ghost­plane were on show around town, as well as oth­er excel­lent kiwi bands Dav­id Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, and The Fan­at­ics. On […]

Weekend gig action

Moody rock­er and increas­ingly funk-ori­ent­ated Dim­mer and Sam­oan hip-hop­per extraordin­aire Tha Feel­style (it’s not a typo, it is Tha) will be enter­tain­ing the stu­dents and any­one else who cares to turn up at the Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity Uni­on Hall tonight (Fri 25 Feb). Should be an inter­est­ing combo of sounds. The latest Dim­mer album – You’ve […]

Goldenhorse & the NZSO

Auck­land pop­sters Gold­en­horse are in town at the Michael Fowl­er Centre tomor­row night (Fri­day 18 Feb) for a one-off gig with the New Zea­l­and Sym­phony Orches­tra. The band have already done a couple of sim­il­ar exer­cises in with the Auck­land Phil­har­mo­nia and Christ­ch­urch Sym­phony, so the band should be peak­ing with the full nation­al orches­tra […]

Phoenix Foundation sign with FMR

Loc­al lads The Phoenix Found­a­tion con­tin­ue their well-paced rise to the top of the music­al pile, with the news that they’ve signed a deal with Fest­iv­al Mush­room Records (FMR). The band have appar­ently been the sub­ject of a ‘bid­ding war’ amongst at least a couple of the big­ger Auck­­­land-based labels, with some fine win­ing and […]