News that this weekend's Big Day Out will be the last one must be a worry for festival promoters throughout New Zealand. The 18-year-old event has given up the race... Read More

One of the most exciting new events this year, the Summer Fest, is already gearing up in preparation for its celebration of local sounds. In case you missed it,... Read More

Perhaps it was because New Year's Eve was so damp, but it didn't really seem like the expected party, and I didn't have the all-terrain vehicle needed to make it... Read More

It's Christmas, no point in trying to deny it now. I know how busy everyone is - thank you for taking the time to join me for this year's final column. And since... Read More

It hasn't, it would be fair to say, been the greatest year for Tauranga music - as far as the recording front goes, it has been pretty much all quiet. Which is... Read More

First it was the kiwifruit, now it's the oysters; you could begin to wonder whether someone's got it in for New Zealand. It hasn't, by any objective reckoning, been... Read More

It seems that every time you look around there's a new festival being announced. From what I figure now you could probably attend a music festival every weekend... Read More

Tom Waits doesn't make a lot of albums, so the arrival of a new one is always cause for celebration. His latest offering, Bad As Me, is the first collection of new... Read More

I've written previously about the demise of the Mount's Kiss-FM. But what was the full story? This week we get the real oil directly from Max Christoffersen, who... Read More

New Zealand may be suffering hard economic times, but you wouldn't know it from the number of festivals arriving over summer. Every week, it seems, more and more... Read More

Dear Simon Bridges, I realize you have an election going on and are probably a little busy at the moment, but can I please take a little of your time to draw your... Read More

They say bad news comes in threes and this week the Bay had its third piece of bad news. There's still a large hunk of metal hanging onto one of our most important... Read More