Marlon Williams & Julia Deans – Auckland Town Hall May 25, 2018
Every so often you see a performance that makes you fall back in love with live music. Marlon Williams’s sold out show at the Town Hall was one such performance.
Every so often you see a performance that makes you fall back in love with live music. Marlon Williams’s sold out show at the Town Hall was one such performance.
Imagine Dragons and The Temper Trap – Spark Arena May 21, 2018 Las Vegas rockers Imagine Dragons brought their Evolve World Tour to Auckland’s Spark Arena last night. They also brought along Aussie band The Temper Trap.
Ace vocalist, and frequent 13th Floor contributor, Caitlin Smith checks out the PP Arnold show at Auckland’s Powerstation last night… I’m in love with PP Arnold! It’s literally impossible not to be.
Public Service Broadcasting gave us a little reminder of who really runs the world, and why. The band consists of J. Wilgoose, Esq. apparently running the show, Wrigglesworth on the drums, and relatively new J.F. Abraham on the flugelhorn and bass. And on the screen, I’m pretty sure I saw my grandad, but so did everyone else.
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro mixed the sensitive with the seismic as they thrilled fans at Auckland’s Spark Arena last night.
Halsey brings “The sound of young America” to Auckland as her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour resumes after a five-month layoff.
Eb & Sparrow and Carnivorous Plant Society – two of New Zealand’s finest live acts converged at Auckland’s Tuning Fork last night keeping fans warm and dry even as the weather raged outside.
Two consummate ringmasters – Lionel Richie and Nile Rodgers. An audience you’d expect, and one you didn’t. Hits from the last five decades that you know by osmosis and hold close to your heart; and a sometimes self-congratulatory trawl through them. Troupes of sensational musicians; and clowns distracting the reason everyone’s there. Creepy, nostalgic sexy time; […]
In 2014 Jason Isbell and his band put on one of the finest shows I’ve seen when they sold out The Tuning Fork. Four years later and Isbell and his 400 Unit returned, this time to The Powerstation, to prove that their previous show was no fluke.
WOMAD 2018 has come to an end. Michael Flynn and Tim Gruar document the final day of this year’s festival with pictures and words.