November has clearly been set aside as Nostalgia Month. At least that's how it seemed when two bundles of promotional leaflets dropped across the lawn of the Watusi... Read More

Tauranga is growing like Topsy - just look at the number of upcoming concerts in this sleepy ol' town. I guess you could regard it as a build-up to the Arts Festival,... Read More

I've been seeing TV ads for Roger Waters' upcoming New Zealand shows: they look spectacular. And so you would expect. After all, this is the man responsible for... Read More

It's all go at the moment. So much so that I nearly forgot the International Film Festival. The festival has been running for just over a week at the Rialto and... Read More

A couple of months back I was looking at venues in Tauranga. Of course I was complaining. Or at least pointing out that there possibly aren't as many options as... Read More

Is it ageist to be impressed by something an ‘older' person has done? I'm not really sure. (Apologies up front to anyone who was hoping for a definitive answer.) A... Read More

Let me tell you my plans for next weekend. As it happens, I'm off to Wellington for four days, and looking forward to it immensely since ‘Wellington On a... Read More

They say it's never a good idea to meet your heroes. And they're usually right.I've met a few of mine, some through music writing, some just by coincidence, and... Read More

Perhaps it's the chill of winter attracting people, but a lot of out-of-town acts are heading this way at the start of August. There is, as they say, something... Read More

The music biz appears to be sinking around us but, as always, musicians play on as they rearrange the deckchairs on this musical Titanic. That is good news: musicians... Read More

I've been doing this for a year or three now and there's one thing I hear more than anything else.It's a phrase that crops up with absolute regularity, and I still... Read More

It must be winter - people are releasing albums.That does often seem to be the way here. Gigs dry up a bit after summer so everyone hits the studio. Or perhaps it's... Read More