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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]