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.
Tool at Spark Arena, Auckland
Category: Photo album
Cowboy Junkies: all the different kinds of beautiful
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: a thoroughly, exceptionally enjoyable show.
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…
Come Together for Led Zeppelin II!
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…
Devilskin with Villainy: Better the devil you (should) know
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…
ZZ Top: Texas comes to Auckland
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…
Toto: 80s giants are still in session
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…
Dua Lipa at Spark Arena, Auckland: Optimistic, if not necessarily radical.
Review by Enzo Giordani; photos by Chris Zwaagdyk “Choosing optimism and grace to navigate through the chaos” – Dua Lipa on the meaning of ‘Radical Optimism’ I remain unconvinced about this concept. Look, the world is royally effed. Fascism is on the…
Sex Pistols at Town Hall, Auckland: Less anarchy, but far from rotten.
Review by Jeremy Elwood In less than three years, from 1975 until their acrimonious onstage breakup in January 1978, the Sex Pistols upended the worlds of music, fashion, marketing and, arguably, British society as a whole. Buried in the filth…
Shihad: a farewell to kings.
Review by Jeremy Elwood • Photos by Michele A’Court There’s a documentary on Prime Video called No Dress Rehearsal, about the Canadian band The Tragically Hip. If you don’t know their story, I won’t spoil it, but in 2016 they…