Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo 2nd February 2024 Meeanee Memorial Hall, Meeanee, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. One of the positive outcomes from the rethink and reconstruction that occurred post-pandemic was the genesis of theContinue Reading
Sissos 11th January 2024 Poukawa Hall, Poukawa, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Australian, but resident in Berlin, Stephanie and Georgie Fisher are, collectively, Sissos, and they’re bringing their special something to the Small Halls ofContinue Reading
Nest Fest 2024 5th + 6th January 2024 Tomoana Showgrounds, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rosheen FitzGerald, Rob Harbers & Hayley Osterfield. Photography by Hayley Munro, Jessie Broad & Felix Goetze. Right at the place where Hastings changes from rural to urban, TomoanaContinue Reading
Jackie Bristow & Barry Saunders 7th December 2023 Elsthorpe Community Hall, Elsthorpe, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. In a nicely circular way, one of the stars of the very first run of Small Hall Sessions,Continue Reading
C.R. Avery & The Storm Collective 25th November 2023 Common Room, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Some say lightning doesn’t strike twice. But they don’t know fuck all, because tonight, for the second timeContinue Reading
Hot Potato Band 9th November 2023 Paisley Stage, Napier, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Like a shot of molten metal, the hyperactive Hot Potato Band last night dropped in to Napier’s coolest little venue™ andContinue Reading
Nadia Reid 8th November 2023 Poukawa Hall, Poukawa, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Following up the frenetic Jenny Don’t and the Spurs run of Small Hall Sessions, the pace and volume has eased considerably thisContinue Reading
Ebony Lamb 5th November 2023 Paisley Stage, Napier, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. Promoting her long-awaited, eponymously-titled, first solo album, Ebony Lamb has made a first-ever appearance on the boards of Ahuriri’s most sublime bijouContinue Reading
Jenny Mitchell & The Mitchell Twins 29th October 2023 ToiToi, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers, photography by Andrew Caldwell. For the fifth year in a row, it falls to me to chronicle the closing act in the two-weekContinue Reading