Come Together – Born to Run The Civic, Auckland, 6/6/2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood | Photos by Rachel Matthews This was my first foray into the Come Together experience, the rotating supergroup of NZ rock musicians who have been taking…
Sparks at Kiri Te Kanawa theatre, Auckland, May 23rd 2026 Review by Jeremy Elwood | Photos by Rachel Matthews For years, Sparks have sat somewhere between a closely guarded in-joke and a myth, to me. Hovering around the periphery of…
Jimmy Barnes – For the Working Class Man 40th Anniversary tour With Ian Moss Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood; photos by Rachel Matthews The “album anniversary tour” is certainly having a moment. Just last week, The Pogues marked 40 years of…
I was, I’ll be honest, a tad hesitant before last night’s Pogues concert. On the one hand, Shane MacGowan, the band’s frontman and singer and primary lyricist, has been gone since 2023, and gone from the band since a lot…
Counting Crows Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, 23rd and 24th March 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood; photos by Steve McCabe There’s a quote in the Counting Crows documentary Have You Seen Me Lately? (streaming on Neon) referring to the backlash they…
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…
The Powerstation, Auckland, Feb 21st 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood , photographs by Steve McCabe It says a lot about how deeply music can touch people when a band who never had a NZ number one, haven’t released an album…
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…
Spark Arena Jan 29th 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood | Photos by Steve McCabe The Greenstone Summer Concert Tour lineup announcement has, for many, become a highly anticipated moment of finding out which eclectic mix of “wow-are-they-still-alive?” nostalgia acts will…
Stewart Copeland – “Have I Said Too Much?” Auckland, Bruce Mason Centre, 21st Jan 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood; photos by Stella Gardiner Over Stewart Copeland’s 50-plus year music career, he’s won seven Grammy awards, composed dozens of film scores,…