Tag: music

Review: Macbeth

I went into Mac­beth at the St James com­plete­ly cold — I know Verdi’s lat­er operas, includ­ing his lat­er Shake­speare operas; Otel­lo and Fal­staff.  But I’ve some­how missed Mac­beth, and decid­ed to keep it that way, I guess because it’s so excit­ing to go into some­thing com­plete­ly fresh and new, even if it was writ­ten […]

Review: The Look Of Love

I’ve seen Ali Harp­er before, at Old St Paul’s in 2012, and I was struck by her humour and pro­fes­sion­al­ism then.  It was a fun night out with my Robot Mum and we both enjoyed hear­ing songs we knew, and some we did­n’t, per­formed by some­one who knew her craft and was super skilled. On […]

Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love — Review

Black­bird Ensem­ble are “NZ’s most excit­ing cham­ber orches­tra”, and Thurs­day’s homage to Björk sup­port­ed that claim more than com­pe­tent­ly.  A col­lec­tion of strings, horns, per­cus­sion­ists, and Claire Cow­an’s mul­ti-instru­­men­­tal­ism brought direc­tor Cow­an’s arrange­ments to vibrant and emo­tion­al life.  The musi­cians were more than just that; in their glow­ing boil­er suits they became part of a sen­so­ry […]

Need more umlauting in your October?

In 2010, hairy clas­sic rock/metal fan Dave Keyes start­ed throw­ing non-prof­it Dres­­sUp-Rock­­Out events and the Gods of Rock Awards at his work­place. In 2010 Welling­ton Rocks’ Rock­to­ber event raised $1300 for the Can­cer Soci­ety and then in 2011 the Gods of Rock event raised $2600 to split even­ly between the Can­cer Soci­ety and the Red Cross Earth­quake Appeal for Christchurch. They’re doing […]

Incoming: Supermodel and Sleeping Dogs

Welling­ton rock­ers Super­mod­el are team­ing up with Christchurch wave-mak­ers Sleep­ing Dogs and kick­ing off the year with a North Island tour. They’ll be back in Welling­ton lat­er this week. Both bands are pro­mot­ing their UK-pro­­duced albums which were released in 2011. The Welling­ton show is the eighth of eight shows, so they’ll be nii­i­ice and […]

Incoming: Badd Energy

Sike-elec­tro weirdos and recent “that’s inter­est­ing” Fly­ing Nun Mark II signees Badd Ener­gy are back with a new single/video and tour.

Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!

Has it real­ly been a year since Fish­head mag­a­zine launched? Appar­ent­ly so! Con­se­quent­ly, they’d like to par­ty with you! There’s be cock­tail spe­cials, free entry and Welling­ton super­group The Eggs play­ing. Fish­head birth­day after­par­ty Thurs­day March 31, 9pm-mid­night CQ Bar in the Qual­i­ty Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rot­ten…

Here kitty, kitty

So the race is on. The first 500 free tick­ets to the Tiger Trans­late event hit­ting town next Fri­day 26 Novem­ber have been snapped up BUT a sec­ond release of tick­ets has been announced. Head to HeyTiger to get tick­ets to this FREE! event at the Opera House (and Opera House lane) fea­tur­ing a true […]