If April, as T.S. Elliot proclaimed, really is the cruellest month then let's be thankful it's over and move straight on to New Zealand Music Month. Of course... Read More

Prolific local singer Shirley Ryder has been at it again: she has a new album and it is ready for release during NZ Music Month. This will be her fifth set of... Read More

OK! Orange is here and with it music and we are absolutely indubitably rolling again. Some starts immediately, some will arrive after a predictable lag while... Read More

We live in a divided country; it's sad to see and I don't know what can be done to solve the problem. I'm not talking about Covid here. Enough about that. We're... Read More

Welcome to another week of things not quite happening. It is, as pretty much everyone I run into says, a bit weird at the moment. Not that I'm actually running... Read More

All of us have wished, sometime, for a time machine. It would come in handy for many a situation: the brief instant you realise you have just fallen out of a... Read More

Let's start this week with some birthday wishes. It happens that one of the Bay's more famous residents, the very fabulous Richard O'Brien, is celebrating his... Read More

Is it too early to get nostalgic for CDs? I must confess to being slightly baffled by still-flourishing vinyl revival. What is it people hear in vinyl? 'The sound... Read More

'Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” That's something Australian photographer Peter Adams said; and it is undeniably very... Read More

We're thinking of changing the name of The Watusi Country Club to Fortress Watusi. It does feel that way at times. Since last week's column Covid has arrived;... Read More

Last week I included a quick glance at shows cancelled, postponed or confirmed; this week it's all about that. Two of the uncertain upcoming shows were at Totara... Read More

Although it wasn't widely reported, certainly not as widely as it should have been, two weeks ago we lost one of the greats from New Zealand's jazz world. Jim... Read More