Category: Live music

Harry Styles at Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland: review—A great show, and the singing might have been good, too.

A Harry Styles concert is about many things. It’s a shared experience, an opportunity to dress up in Harry-themed costumes, a chance to sing, or scream, along to a thoroughly eclectic mix of songs, it’s a chance to be with…

Lorde at Western Springs, Tāmaki Makaurau: a long time coming—The Solar Power Tour, reviewed by Jeremy Elwood

It was a long time coming, but after two years of COVID disruption and two months of nervously watching the skies, Solar Power finally arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau. “My name is Ella…you might know me as Lorde”.  Indeed we do. …

The most beautiful music in town—Cowboy Junkies delight Auckland

“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…