The film Radioactive tells the story of Marie Curie, one of the world’s most famous and influential scientists. She is the woman who, along with her husband Pierre, effectively unlocked radioactivity. It’s not subject matter to be taken lightly. Radioactive…
Music continues to open up in New Zealand, and last night Grace Kelly launched her new EP before. at The Portland Public House in Auckland. And Crave!, of course, was there to cover the show. And while we were, most…
Live music has finally returned to Aotearoa, and The Beths are one of the first bands to play in Auckland. Crave! sent Leah Victoria to The Powerstation to shoot the band’s launch show for their new album Jump Rope Gazers.…
Crave! is finally back, after months of lockdown and carefully managed isolation. In this first post-lockdown edition, Steve and Simon disagree on Greed, the satire on the nasty wealthy from Michael Winterbottom, but agree on The High Note, a film…
The High Note, released as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, saw its initial release on streaming services; it might be kinder not to suggest that it would have been better off being released straight to video regardless of global…
Steve Coogan has been playing Alan Partridge for so long that it was, I suppose, somewhat inevitable that a little bit of Partridge would spill into any other role Coogan takes. No great surprise, then, that Sir Richard McCreadie, the…
Wing Defence release their new EP, Friends, today, and so Steve caught up with Skye Walter and Paige Court of the Australian duo about music during lockdown, writing and performing, and, of course, netball.
With lockdown keeping most of the world at home, you’ve no excuse for reading, and so Steve’s been talking to John Niven about golf, music, various Trumps, and, of course, his new novel, The F*ck It List.
Continuing our series of chats with Kiwi artists making music during lockdown, this week Simon and Steve catch up with bassist Daniel Insley and, eventually, singer Richie Simpson of City Of Souls to talk about the band’s new album, Synaesthesia.
SIMON HAS USED SOME OF HIS LOCKDOWN TIME TO CATCH UP WITH ON DEMAND VIEWING. THE NETFLIX DRAMA OZARK HAS CAUGHT PLENTY OF ATTENTION OF LATE, AND SIMON’S NOW WORKED HIS WAY THROUGH ALL THREE SEASONS. HERE’S HIS VIEW. I’ve…