Nathaniel Rateliff was ready to abandon his musical career when he finally assembled the band that would become The Night Sweats and recorded a record that he’d release with the imaginative title Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats. On the…
Auckland’s post-alternative rock kings, City Of Souls, will headline shows in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch this July with support from Melbourne-bred progressive alternative rock juggernaut, Circles. The tour then travels to Australia for Circles’ headline shows with City Of Soulsin Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, and…
Review by Simon, photographs by Megan Moss Towards the end of last night’s John Prine show at the Bruce Mason Theatre, Prine removed his acoustic guitar, lay it on the floor, and danced around it. He shimmied and swayed, his…
Steve and I don’t often write on the website about the same film, although we compare notes all the time on our podcast/vidcast. But having digested his just-posted review of Mary Poppins Returns, I thought I’d add a few extra…
This looks like an attempt to find a fresh and edgy action comedy. It succeeds in part only. Sometimes it entertains, and sometimes it doesn’t, and the reason is that The Spy Who Dumped Me tries to blend too many…
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the big film in cinemas this week, and Simon and Steve ask if it’s time for the Jurassic series to go extinct. (Hint: yes, it is.) Altogether more engaging is Tag, the true-ish story of…
Jhené Aiko is bringing her TRIP tour down under this September. Presented by Pato Entertainment and The Hour Group, the Grammy-nominated pop icon will perform an all-ages show at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on Thursday, September 20. Aiko…
Superhero films have had a tendency to be a po-faced lot. Guardians Of The Galaxy did a lot to reverse that trend, but it took 2016’s Deadpool to bring some proper, ugly, nasty, sweary humour to the genre. It was…
Here’s the thing – the young crowd who turned out at Spark Arena to see firstly Kehlani and then Halsey had a hell of a time. They knew the songs, they sang along with them, and cheered, clapped and waved…
Australian and internationally renowned comedian James Smithwas chosen as a special guest on US comedy giant Chris Rock’s July 2017Total Black Out Tourof Australia and New Zealand. Smith was personally selected by the two-time Oscar host himself and earned rave…