Review by Jeremy Elwood I’ll start with an admission – I’m a big Counting Crows fan. I’ve seen them three times before, so I went along to Spark Arena with both expectation and comparison to contend with. So let me…
You get one of two responses when you tell people you’re going to see The Proclaimers. There’s those who benevolently chuckle, pleased that those novelty twins who had the huge one-hit wonder I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) are still touring. And then…
Confession time – the first time I became fully cognisant of My Chemical Romance was seeing their name on a sign as I drove past Western Springs a few weeks ago. So the first thing I did after agreeing to…
Backstreet’s back—Backstreet Boys returned to Auckland’s Spark Arena last night on their DNA World Tour, and Crave! was there to shoot the show. No review, sadly, but we hope you enjoy the photos!
A Harry Styles concert is about many things. It’s a shared experience, an opportunity to dress up in Harry-themed costumes, a chance to sing, or scream, along to a thoroughly eclectic mix of songs, it’s a chance to be with…
It was a long time coming, but after two years of COVID disruption and two months of nervously watching the skies, Solar Power finally arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau. “My name is Ella…you might know me as Lorde”. Indeed we do. …
Ed Sheeran played a quite excellent show at Eden Park in Auckland last night. It just wasn’t quite the show he’d expected to play. It was, from the start, something a little different. The first time I saw Sheeran, at…
“Well, she’s got range,” I heard a woman in the row behind me at last night’s Cowboy Junkies concert remark about singer Margo Timmins as the band finished My Little Basquiat. Thing is, if you’ve only heard Sweet Jane, the…
So good to see the big shows from the world’s best acts coming back to Aotearoa. Last night saw the return of Red Hot Chili Peppers, with Post Malone opening up for them, and Crave! was, of course, there to…
As Auckland’s live music scene comes back to life, so does Crave!’s coverage of the very best shows. And last night, it was the turn of Pixies, at Auckland’s Town Hall, with Auckland’s own Die! Die! Die! opening up the…