“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…
The Art Of Black Grace 1/5 is a curious, creative, ingenious thing. A six-meter-high cylinder of screens fifteen meters across, it’s an art installation in itself, but also a way of showcasing Black Grace, Neil Ieremia’s acclaimed contemporary dance company.…
It’s really not entirely clear what the thinking was behind Off The Rails. The idea of a jukebox musical using the songs of Blondie as a framing device must have seemed very appealing to someone at some point; perhaps director…
Hagiography is a tricky business. You have to be quite sure that your subject deserves the glory they’re getting, and King Richard is on, at the very least, somewhat shaky ground here. At the very least, it’s a somewhat odd…
Don’t Look Up is a very, very curious film. It’s many things, but I’m still not entirely convinced that it’s actually a good film. Adam McKay, directing a screenplay he wrote with David Sirota, has assembled a quite outstanding cast…
Less really is more, isn’t it? La Casa de Papel came out of nowhere a couple of years ago, one of the trailblazers that paved the way for growing number of non-English-language offerings on Netflix. Under the deeply uninspiring English…
DRAX PROJECT, SIR DAVE DOBBYN, TROY KINGI AND THE CLUTCH, JESSB AND MAIMOA JOIN THE BILL. SIX60 will be the first band ever to grace the stage at New Zealand’s national stadium Eden Park on Saturday 24th April 2021. Just announced!…
Trying to convince my friends to watch שטיסל (Shtisel) in was always going to be a bit of a tough sell—”So it’s a soap opera, but not really, and it’s set in an ultra-orthodox Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, and…
Review by Simon Mercep; photos by Steve McCabe Neil Finn skipped out on stage, a grey mop of hair on top and a broad smile underneath, called out “Kia Ora”, and proceeded to take a full house at Spark Arena…
There was a certain inevitable familiarity about last night’s show at Auckland’s Town Hall. It was less than three weeks ago that Dave Dobbyn was on stage just down the road at Spark Arena for a solo show; last night…