Rick Bryant, whose funeral was on Wednesday, was in two of my all-time favourite Kiwi bands. His death wasn’t as widely reported as I would have... Read More

It is rather stating the bleedin' obvious to point out that it gets busy at this time of year. So busy that last time I missed out mentioning a... Read More

Everything has its time and eventually that time passes.  For better or for worse, things change. Ever since I arrived in Tauranga in the mid-eighties... Read More

November's annual musical frenzy usually peaks around the end of the month. The impending arrival of Christmas is to blame of course as work functions... Read More

Since we live in such a tech-savvy interconnected world, you'd think it would be getting simpler, not harder, to find stuff. We're certainly... Read More

Two albums have been on heavy rotate recently at The Watusi Country Club. There's the fantastic new offering from a legendary veteran who is churning... Read More

That’s what Paul Revere is reputed to have shouted on his famous 1775 midnight ride to warn sleeping Massachusetts colonists of the advancing British... Read More

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Yep, we're starting this week with an eminently true bit of French. For those less familiar... Read More

The Bay is becoming a new home for music festivals in New Zealand. Spring Things – on at the Mount’s Soper Reserve over Labour Weekend –... Read More

October this year is a tricky time for promoters and bands: the Rugby World Cup messes everything up. It's not as though every single person in... Read More

It’s October already, a month for female singer-songwriters to wend their way  to Tauranga. There has been a huge rise of female singer-songwriters... Read More

So much music, so little time... There really is so much on that I'm looking for a way to present something other than what amounts to a seven hundred... Read More

It’s time for Part Two of The Great 2019 Mayoral Music Survey. The first four respondents featured last week (see www.sunlive.co.nz). They were:... Read More

Politics. It’s a funny old game, innit? We’re counting down to another local election. Time for everyone to try and remember who to punish... Read More

 Gigs. Next weekend. Damn, but there’re a lot of them... Starting on Friday (September 13) we once again find ourselves at The Jam Factory.... Read More