I was, I’ll be honest, a tad hesitant before last night’s Pogues concert. On the one hand, Shane MacGowan, the band’s frontman and singer and primary lyricist, has been gone since 2023, and gone from the band since a lot…
Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel comes to New Zealand to play five dates as part of his Living In The Light Tour in May, so Crave! caught up with Tommy to talk about the shows, about music, and about working with some…
Counting Crows Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, 23rd and 24th March 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood; photos by Steve McCabe There’s a quote in the Counting Crows documentary Have You Seen Me Lately? (streaming on Neon) referring to the backlash they…
The ticket said “Transvision Vamp,” but last night’s show was, if we’re being entirely fair, a Wendy James concert. Transvision Vamp haven’t really been a band since they split up in 1992; James is now touring with a band that…
The Powerstation, Auckland, Feb 21st 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood , photographs by Steve McCabe It says a lot about how deeply music can touch people when a band who never had a NZ number one, haven’t released an album…
Jason Aldean has, over the years, been quite happy to court controversy, not least with 2023’s Try That In A Small Town, which was buried deep in the setlist of last night’s performance at Spark Arena. Odd, then, that this…
There’s a very fine line between lovely and lovey. Sir Tony Robinson knows exactly how to find that line, and stay just on the right side of it. In an hour and a half of what was billed as conversation,…
Spark Arena Jan 29th 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood | Photos by Steve McCabe The Greenstone Summer Concert Tour lineup announcement has, for many, become a highly anticipated moment of finding out which eclectic mix of “wow-are-they-still-alive?” nostalgia acts will…
Stewart Copeland – “Have I Said Too Much?” Auckland, Bruce Mason Centre, 21st Jan 2026 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood; photos by Stella Gardiner Over Stewart Copeland’s 50-plus year music career, he’s won seven Grammy awards, composed dozens of film scores,…
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…