You might notice a small change this week: like the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, we are now practising radical transparency. And so the world turns.... Read More

I often wonder about age and music. As has been mentioned since way before I came to live here, Tauranga has a higher average age than New Zealand in general. This... Read More

Everyone take a deep breath - the rest of October is going to be a rush! Fortunately, things don't end there, and the announcements of new interesting events... Read More

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is too much music. It has finally broken me. I can't do it anymore. Being a music lover with a compulsion... Read More

Let's start exactly where we left off last week - Mudhoney and OvO. Unless you listen to a particular kind of music it's possible those names mean nothing... Read More

October's a bit of an in-between month. I can't think of any notable poetic musings on it aside from a childhood memory of Anne of Green Gables saying, 'I'm... Read More

The drought - if there even was a drought - seems to be over. Interesting new local music is being released, and interesting music is coming to town. Let... Read More

I must say, I do like me a bit of weird. There is real appeal to art that pushes boundaries, that makes grand creative gestures. Part of the appeal is simply... Read More

A few weeks ago I wrote that not much happens in September. That wasn't quite true. While it may be a little quieter than the following months, and perhaps... Read More

Everyone I know has the flu. It's a bit miserable. We seem to have arrived at the 'hunker down for a couple more weeks, spring is nearly here” part... Read More

Last week it was festivals. Let us continue. Why not? In one of those strange lulls that sometimes settle over the Bay, it's actually a pretty quiet September... Read More

One festival finishes, another arrives. Busy times... Last week was Loserpalooza at Totara Street as well as the announcement of the full programme for the... Read More