It's all go at the moment. So much so that I nearly forgot the International Film Festival. The festival has been running for just over a week at the Rialto and... Read More

A couple of months back I was looking at venues in Tauranga. Of course I was complaining. Or at least pointing out that there possibly aren't as many options as... Read More

Is it ageist to be impressed by something an ‘older' person has done? I'm not really sure. (Apologies up front to anyone who was hoping for a definitive answer.) A... Read More

Let me tell you my plans for next weekend. As it happens, I'm off to Wellington for four days, and looking forward to it immensely since ‘Wellington On a... Read More

They say it's never a good idea to meet your heroes. And they're usually right.I've met a few of mine, some through music writing, some just by coincidence, and... Read More

Perhaps it's the chill of winter attracting people, but a lot of out-of-town acts are heading this way at the start of August. There is, as they say, something... Read More

The music biz appears to be sinking around us but, as always, musicians play on as they rearrange the deckchairs on this musical Titanic. That is good news: musicians... Read More

I've been doing this for a year or three now and there's one thing I hear more than anything else.It's a phrase that crops up with absolute regularity, and I still... Read More

It must be winter - people are releasing albums.That does often seem to be the way here. Gigs dry up a bit after summer so everyone hits the studio. Or perhaps it's... Read More

Sometimes there's just too much to fit in.There are upcoming gigs to plug, past gigs to recall, and then albums for review started arriving out of the blue last... Read More

The first person I ever wrote about for a Tauranga newspaper was Ritchie Pickett.I was pretty excited and even arranged for a friend to draw a caricature of Ritchie... Read More

I thought that after he moved to Hawke's Bay last year I'd stop writing about Graham Clark. Yeah right.Graham is probably the person who has cropped up most in this... Read More