When the audience at a concert are having fun, it’s a good sign. When the musicians on stage are having fun, that’s an even better one. Last night’s show at Spark Arena, then, was a very good night out. Opening…
In great news for their longtime loyal fans, classic New Zealand band CROWDED HOUSE announced today that they will tour New Zealand in March 2021 on their “To the Island” tour. The band also released their first new music in more than…
Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel, Squeeze Me, is on sale now, so Crave! caught up with him to talk about the book, its main character who is definitely not the actual President of the US, and what it means to be…
As lockdown continues around the world, Crave! continues to talk to musicians who are making the most of their time. This time, Steve’s caught up with Bob Walkenhorst, the singer, songwriter and frontman with The Rainmakers, to talk about musicians…
NYE20 – The Other Side are thrilled to announce the full line-up of top-tier New Zealand artists set to ring in 2021, in the beautiful Coromandel this summer. Joining headliners L.A.B and Shapeshifter over two celebratory nights, are some of the most sizzling NZ talents…
Live music has finally returned to Aotearoa, and The Beths are one of the first bands to play in Auckland. Crave! sent Leah Victoria to The Powerstation to shoot the band’s launch show for their new album Jump Rope Gazers.…
The High Note, released as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, saw its initial release on streaming services; it might be kinder not to suggest that it would have been better off being released straight to video regardless of global…
Steve Coogan has been playing Alan Partridge for so long that it was, I suppose, somewhat inevitable that a little bit of Partridge would spill into any other role Coogan takes. No great surprise, then, that Sir Richard McCreadie, the…
Bruno Major ruminates on the concept of kindred spirits within ‘The Most Beautiful Thing’, a track which came to realisation after a co-writing session with modern-day pop luminary and acclaimed producer FINNEAS. The special partnership was formed after FINNEAS reached out to Bruno, counting himself…
With lockdown keeping most of the world at home, you’ve no excuse for reading, and so Steve’s been talking to John Niven about golf, music, various Trumps, and, of course, his new novel, The F*ck It List.