Review and photos by Crave’s Intrepid Guest Reviewer, Debbie. We arrived a little late, thanks to the usual Mt Smart parking chaos and road closures, and missed the opening act. But we walked in just as Ed Sheeran was taking…
Review by Britt Davies Had the pleasure of catching Kokoroko at the Powerstation, supported by local artist Romi Wrights and her full band. It was a sold-out show, but don’t let that fool you! There was plenty of space to…
Tool came to Auckland last night and played at Spark Arena, and Crave! sent Chris Zwaagdyk along to shoot the show. And opening for Tool were Headsend.
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 and photos by Jeremy Elwood From their inception in Hamilton in 2010, Devilskin have held a prime place in the black-clad hearts of their diehard fans, built largely on the strength of their live shows. In fact, since Shihad…
The sparkly suits suggested Las Vegas. Billy Gibbons’ gravelly voice and searing guitar put that fleeting thought aside. Tonight, we were in Texas. And then some. The 2025 edition of ZZ Top rocked a full Spark Arena in Auckland, in…
Review by Jeremy Elwood | photos by Rachel Matthews These days, nearly 50 years after they formed, Toto consists of original member Steve Lukather and his pick of some of the best session musicians he can conjure up. This isn’t…