The ticket said “Transvision Vamp,” but last night’s show was, if we’re being entirely fair, a Wendy James concert. Transvision Vamp haven’t really been a band since they split up in 1992; James is now touring with a band that…
Jason Aldean has, over the years, been quite happy to court controversy, not least with 2023’s Try That In A Small Town, which was buried deep in the setlist of last night’s performance at Spark Arena. Odd, then, that this…
There’s a very fine line between lovely and lovey. Sir Tony Robinson knows exactly how to find that line, and stay just on the right side of it. In an hour and a half of what was billed as conversation,…
Pioneers of the iconic Madchester sound, the Happy Mondays are heading back to Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their seminal album, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. Fusing funk, rock, psychedelia, and house with the pulsating energy of the UK’s…
Harry Enfield is, as he told his audience at Takapuna’s Bruce Mason Centre last night, 64 years old. And in a nearly two-hour show Enfield told the story of those 64 years through an absolutely compelling blend of anecdote and…
A Cowboy Junkies concert certainly contains multitudes. Last night’s show at Auckland’s Town Hall, kicking off their second NZ tour in three years—before that, we’d had to wait over twenty for a visit from the band—started off with the sublime…
James Blunt will never be cool, and he knows it. And he clearly doesn’t care. Neither, for that matter, did an entirely packed Spark Arena audience last night. Blunt was back in town, for the first time since 2017, to…
It’s a brilliant, and simple, concept, as the very best concepts so often are. Pick a band who aren’t playing any longer—it might be The Beatles, it might be Fleetwood Mac; last night it was, again, Led Zeppelin—and assemble some…
There’s only so many different things you can do with an acoustic guitar, a harmonica, and your voice, so it’s not so much what you do with them as how you do it. And Lachie Hayes plays the kind of…
Review by Jeremy Elwood Full disclosure, I’ve never been an F1 fan. It has always struck me as being more about money and technology than skill or ability – kind of like the America’s Cup on land. However, it is…