Let’s start with the easy part: does Robbie Williams put on a good show? The answer is clearly yes. Williams has the jaunty swagger to command the big crowd in Auckland, be it with his big band, back up singers…
A Foo Fighters show is a difficult thing to pin down, much like the band itself. Originally a personal endeavour by Dave Grohl, late of the Nirvana drumkit, the Foo Fighters have become a six-man band, but, on the strength…
Third song in, and singer guitarist Baz Warne decides it’s time to say hello. He tells the crowd in the Auckland Town Hall that back in 1979 The Stranglers were supposed to play at this venue. Management decided it wasn’t…
On what must have been the hottest day of the summer in Auckland, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2018 took place yesterday in Albert Park, perhaps the ideal location for a hugely successful event. The idea behind Laneway is a…
A bass player isn’t usually the member of a band that you’d most likely want to follow. But most bands aren’t Pink Floyd. Roger Waters, Pink Floyd’s bassist, and to many the creative heart of the band for many years,…
It would be very easy to sneer at Bryan Adams. He is responsible, after all, for some profoundly cheesy and saccharine songs; it’s hard, indeed, to forgive such cheese as (Everything I Do) I Do It For You — no,…
There was a moment in the middle of a vicious reading of Helter Skelter, half-way through the encore — the half-hour encore to a show whose main set had lasted two and a half hours — when I realised: this…
Several songs in this beautifully played concert by Yusuf/Cat Stevens were greeted with cries of joy. Father and Son, Wild World and Miles from Nowhere were embraced like childhood friends. Someone near me kept calling out “You’re a legend!”. Stevens…
Sia’s show at Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium, as part of her Nostalgic For The Present Tour, was a challenging shoot, but Steve captured some great images of the concert, as well as images of Sia’s three opening acts, Mø, Charli…
Marky Ramone, the longest-serving drumming Ramone, played Auckland’s Studio last night, and despite challenging circumstances, Brad Holland managed to get some great black-and-white images from the depths of the mosh pit for Crave!