Will you play, baby?

Welling­ton five-piece The Thomas Oliv­er Band have spent the past few years tour­ing and play­ing live through­out New Zealand with the likes of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Gin Wig­more and Britain’s Oli Brown. With­in this time the band have also writ­ten and record­ed their debut full-length album Baby, I’ll Play to be released in ear­ly 2011. […]

Wing! Leila! Live!

Welling­to­ni­ans are spoilt for choice when it comes to their for­eign-born-but-now-kiwi female singing stars tonight, with two of the coun­try’s most dis­tinc­tive per­form­ers putting on shows around town. First up is the debut Welling­ton appear­ance of the world famous Wing at the Mer­cure Hotel on Willis Street. Wing, an expat Hong Kong res­i­dent who now […]

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 […]