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 expected for... 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 fantastic... 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 there has... 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 proliferate... 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 told that... 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 out... 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 army. It... 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 with... 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 - Bay Dreams and One Love,... 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 the country... 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 in recent... 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 word... Read More