There's certainly been, as an American would say, a whole bunch of weather recently. And people have been very excited by it. I was driving through Auckland on Monday... Read More

A lot of New Zealanders are feeling ripped off at the moment and it's not hard to understand why. In these hard economic times it just adds insult to injury when... Read More

I don't normally follow goings-on in the world of Scrabble, but listening to a recent interview left me slightly gobsmacked. It was a chat with an American gentleman,... Read More

It's always a pleasure to write about a new local album, especially one as ambitious as this week's offering from Nine Mile Stone. The band (née The Mellow... Read More

This week I want to write about Nine Mile Stone; they have a show coming up at Baycourt that I'd like to recommend to you. First off though, a little diversion. Last... Read More

A sojourn in that country American politicians know as Asia, however short, reinforces the idea that often things are not exactly what they seem. Particularly food. Indian... Read More

Ukuleles, ukuleles, ukuleles, I'm being buried by a national infatuation with ukuleles. Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm simply in the wrong place at the wrong time... Read More

After writing about it over the past couple of months I've finally got a copy of the Kiss-FM Kiss-Picks flash drive in my hot little hands and very cool it is too. In... Read More

This week started badly with news of the death of Clarence Clemons, long-time saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. He was 69. Clarence was, in... Read More

We've got a bit of everything this week: gigs, recordings, movies. It may be winter (now officially confirmed) but the beat goes on… Let's deal with stuff... Read More

Every so often people will tell you that size doesn't matter, but it does. Sometimes bigger is better, sometimes smaller.I was thinking about that the other day... Read More

This week I was planning to write about a couple of shows happening soon at Mills Reef. But first the breaking news… Well it broke earlier in the week. The... Read More