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 at Spark Arena, Auckland
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.
Crave! talks to Sir Tony Robinson
Sir Tony Robinson is bringing his “An Audience With…” show to New Zealand in February 2026, so Steve and Jeremy caught up with him to talk about comedy, history, and cunning plans.
Monster Rock
METALLICA with Evanescence, Suicidal Tendencies Eden Park, Auckland Nov 19th 2025 Reviewed by Jeremy Elwood | Photos by Chris Zwaagdyk The forecast rain held off, the predicted traffic apocalypse didn’t happen, and Eden Park’s noise-averse neighbours probably got exactly what…
Harry Enfield And No Chums: comedy, characters, and a bloody good fun evening.
Harry Enfield is, as he told his audience at Takapuna’s Bruce Mason Centre last night, 64 years old. And in a nearly two-hour show Enfield told the story of those 64 years through an absolutely compelling blend of anecdote and…
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…
Crave! talks to Skyscraper Stan
Skyscraper Stan, the Kiwi singer-songwriter now based in Melbourne, talks to Crave! about his new album, Those Were Days, and his upcoming New Zealand shows.
Lachie Hayes and the Tokonui Chainsaws: intensely Americana, unmistakably Kiwi.
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…