Just occasionally, as we rush towards the precipice, it can feel like time is standing still. I've felt that recently, enjoying in the same week both a new... Read More

I do love when local music gets released; today I have some new Tauranga tunes for you. Firstly, there's an album set for release which - due to the complicated... Read More

Way back when, the New Zealand punk scene was a small fragile thing. For all the braggadocio and swaggering fashion violations, anything that radical was going... Read More

Sometimes there's too much happening to keep up. This is one of those weeks. The Tauranga Arts Festival is on; the British and Irish Film Festival is on; and... Read More

OK. This week - gigs. Lotsa them. Saddle up and I'll try and avoid becoming too listicle-like... We're looking ahead to next weekend here, to allow... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Tauranga only occasionally brushes against New Zealand music history but... Read More

I guess I should have expected that something new might cause a little consternation... And so it's been with the Winston Watusi Playlist on Spotify. There has... Read More

No politics this week I promise, just music. I know I went off on a bit of an unruly tangent last week and subsequently someone duly growled at me, via email... Read More

The more you think about it the more it comes down to songwriting. I blame the Beatles. Why not? Half of them are dead and the other half are too rich to care. Or... Read More

It must be tough to be an MP: people just insist on making fun of you. Take our embattled local representative Sam Uffindell. Talk about not being able to catch... Read More

There's a lot coming up in the next fortnight: we'll start by going back to school. Not really, since the Tauranga Boys' College's Big Band Fundraising Tea... Read More

I learnt something from ‘Brokenwood' the other night; it's nice when the telly offers a side-order of education. There's something about ‘Brokenwood... Read More