3rd Secret – 3rd Secret (Independent) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. A well-kept secret indeed, this is an album from a band that almost no one saw coming. Only upon 3rd Secret’s debut performance at the Museum of Popular Culture inContinue Reading
Jackie Bristow 13th April 2022 Omakere Community Hall, Omakere, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. After a brief hiatus in the face of the advance of the ominous Omicron, the Small Hall Sessions have burst backContinue Reading
Kendall Elise 1st April 2022 Wine Cellar, Auckland, New Zealand Review by Charlotte Lightbody, with photography by Doug Peters. Aotearoa, award-nominated singer-songwriter Kendall Elise performed to a sold-out audience in Auckland as part of her ‘Let The Night In’ nationalContinue Reading
Kendall Elise 11th March 2022 Moon Bar, Wellington, New Zealand. Review and photography by Tim Gruar. Last month we featured Kendall Elise Todd’s new single, a barn-stomping rendition of Suzi Quatro’s ‘Your Momma won’t Like Me’ in our inaugural ‘SinglesContinue Reading
Foo Fighters 4th March 2022 GMHBA Stadium, Geelong, Australia. Review by Darren Tilnak. Photography by Brett Schewitz & Rick Clifford. With this review, due to live music being silenced for nearly two years and finally just kicking off again, weContinue Reading
Jackie Bristow – Outsider (Independent) Reviewed by Rob Harbers. There exists, out beyond the ken of many of us, a sizeable camp of “NZ artists not many New Zealanders know exist”. Among former residents of that enclave are numbered CrowdedContinue Reading
Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Concord) Reviewed by Bridget Herlihy. On the thirty-seventh anniversary of the release of the critically acclaimed ‘Songs From The Big Chair’, Tears For Fears dropped ‘The Tipping Point’, an album that has apparentlyContinue Reading
Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Warner Music) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. Tim Finn and Eddie Raynor are stepping back into the limelight with a project that steals from the past and brings it into the present. It’s their new colabContinue Reading
Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) Reviewed by Sam Smith. After delivering one of the best albums of last year in the form of ‘For the First Time’, Cambridgeshire post-punk group Black Country, New RoadContinue Reading