Perhaps it's the chill of winter attracting people, but a lot of out-of-town acts are heading this way at the start of August. There is, as they say, something... Read More

The music biz appears to be sinking around us but, as always, musicians play on as they rearrange the deckchairs on this musical Titanic. That is good news: musicians... Read More

I've been doing this for a year or three now and there's one thing I hear more than anything else.It's a phrase that crops up with absolute regularity, and I still... Read More

It must be winter - people are releasing albums.That does often seem to be the way here. Gigs dry up a bit after summer so everyone hits the studio. Or perhaps it's... Read More

Sometimes there's just too much to fit in.There are upcoming gigs to plug, past gigs to recall, and then albums for review started arriving out of the blue last... Read More

The first person I ever wrote about for a Tauranga newspaper was Ritchie Pickett.I was pretty excited and even arranged for a friend to draw a caricature of Ritchie... Read More

I thought that after he moved to Hawke's Bay last year I'd stop writing about Graham Clark. Yeah right.Graham is probably the person who has cropped up most in this... Read More

Tauranga is - as few can fail to notice - a rapidly growing city. And with growth comes growing pains.As has been noted by far more irritated people than me, traffic... Read More

I was in Auckland last weekend for Sun Kil Moon at The Tuning Fork. It was a great gig.First things first, since it's an obscure band. They're named after a Korean... Read More

I used to assume, because it seemed rather obvious, that time ran in a linear manner. Now I'm not so sure.The more I stumble through life, the more time seems circular,... Read More

France has been in the news recently.Not only have they had an election that thankfully rejected their very own far-right Trumpian populist but for a while they... Read More

I've got two gigs for you this time. They're both next week and, wouldn't you know it, they're on the same day. Having said that, they're so different I can't really... Read More