Third song in, and singer guitarist Baz Warne decides it’s time to say hello. He tells the crowd in the Auckland Town Hall that back in 1979 The Stranglers were supposed to play at this venue. Management decided it wasn’t…
On what must have been the hottest day of the summer in Auckland, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2018 took place yesterday in Albert Park, perhaps the ideal location for a hugely successful event. The idea behind Laneway is a…
A bass player isn’t usually the member of a band that you’d most likely want to follow. But most bands aren’t Pink Floyd. Roger Waters, Pink Floyd’s bassist, and to many the creative heart of the band for many years,…
It would be very easy to sneer at Bryan Adams. He is responsible, after all, for some profoundly cheesy and saccharine songs; it’s hard, indeed, to forgive such cheese as (Everything I Do) I Do It For You — no,…
[player id=4183] Steve has had the great good fortune to be at Paul McCartney’s recent Auckland concert, while Simon enjoyed Cat Stevens’ show at Spark Arena a couple of nights earlier. Both were outstanding shows, but Steve’s a little less…
There was a moment in the middle of a vicious reading of Helter Skelter, half-way through the encore — the half-hour encore to a show whose main set had lasted two and a half hours — when I realised: this…
Several songs in this beautifully played concert by Yusuf/Cat Stevens were greeted with cries of joy. Father and Son, Wild World and Miles from Nowhere were embraced like childhood friends. Someone near me kept calling out “You’re a legend!”. Stevens…
Many thanks to Andrea Rabin for this guest review! When David Bowie said that ‘’I have seen the future of Pop Music” – he wasn’t wrong. 20 million album sales and as part of their 40th anniversary, The Human League…
Sia’s show at Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium, as part of her Nostalgic For The Present Tour, was a challenging shoot, but Steve captured some great images of the concert, as well as images of Sia’s three opening acts, Mø, Charli…
Music is to the fore again in the latest episode of Crave!, with a review of Harry Styles’ first solo concert in Auckland from our guest reviewer Debbie, and Simon and Steve’s thoughts on the recent double-bill of The Pretenders…