5:30am Friday 16 Apr, 2021
This week let's have a look at next week. Live music continues apace. I've picked out three very different gigs of interest, one leaning Celtic,... Read More
5:35am Friday 09 Apr, 2021
With Bay Dreams, One Love and more, Tauranga is getting a name as a festival city; but there's something unique about the Jazz Festival. It may... Read More
5:35am Thursday 01 Apr, 2021
After a two-year build-up it’s here; jazz is in the air, everywhere you look around. Fingers crossed about the weather, and I hope everyone has... Read More
5:35am Friday 26 Mar, 2021
Okay. Last column before the Jazz Festival arrives. It’s quite exciting... There is a veritable deluge of music about to flood the town, with... Read More
5:30am Friday 19 Mar, 2021
Normally I write about new music, but a bunch of old music has unexpectedly appeared this week... Before that though, a quick reminder that the National... Read More
5:30am Friday 12 Mar, 2021
I have all sorts of titbits for you this week: reviews, gigs, gossip... yep it's more action-packed than an Oprah interview. First up, let's... Read More
5:30am Friday 05 Mar, 2021
Once again I find myself writing to you from limbo, from a level that may be different by the time you read this... Which means that whatever plans... Read More
5:35am Friday 26 Feb, 2021
Last week Grant Haua launched Awa Blues, already probably the most significant Tauranga release of the year. It was sent out into the world via a small... Read More
5:30am Friday 19 Feb, 2021
Writing about promotional (ad)ventures from Your Enabler Presents makes me think of a David Lynch movie. Blue Velvet, to be exact. He was once called... Read More
5:55am Friday 12 Feb, 2021
There are all sorts of musical stories in Tauranga; Shirley Ryder's must be amongst the more unusual. Not long ago Shirley, a singer/songwriter... Read More
5:30am Friday 05 Feb, 2021
Who's the most popular band in the Bay this summer? It's a close run thing. What with Tauranga now being celebrated as Festival Central for... Read More
5:30am Friday 29 Jan, 2021
There seems to be an increase of dissatisfaction in Tauranga these days; people are cross and getting crosser. Perhaps it's because this is an ever-expanding... Read More
5:30am Friday 22 Jan, 2021
Fifty years is a long time to do anything – if you want to spend that length of time on something you need to start young. Luckily, Shona Laing... Read More
5:30am Friday 15 Jan, 2021
Many people I know switch off a bit at this time of year. While a lot of folk are now back at work and the beaches are becoming quieter, there are a... Read More
9:02am Monday 11 Jan, 2021
So we're now over a week into 2021. Hmmm... There was a vague sense that once we farewelled that savage Year Of Our Lord 2020 things would change.... Read More