It's always a pleasure to write about a new local album, especially one as ambitious as this week's offering from Nine Mile Stone. The band (née The Mellow... Read More

This week I want to write about Nine Mile Stone; they have a show coming up at Baycourt that I'd like to recommend to you. First off though, a little diversion. Last... Read More

A sojourn in that country American politicians know as Asia, however short, reinforces the idea that often things are not exactly what they seem. Particularly food. Indian... Read More

Ukuleles, ukuleles, ukuleles, I'm being buried by a national infatuation with ukuleles. Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm simply in the wrong place at the wrong time... Read More

After writing about it over the past couple of months I've finally got a copy of the Kiss-FM Kiss-Picks flash drive in my hot little hands and very cool it is too. In... Read More

This week started badly with news of the death of Clarence Clemons, long-time saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. He was 69. Clarence was, in... Read More

We've got a bit of everything this week: gigs, recordings, movies. It may be winter (now officially confirmed) but the beat goes on… Let's deal with stuff... Read More

Every so often people will tell you that size doesn't matter, but it does. Sometimes bigger is better, sometimes smaller.I was thinking about that the other day... Read More

This week I was planning to write about a couple of shows happening soon at Mills Reef. But first the breaking news… Well it broke earlier in the week. The... Read More

Perhaps it's the rousing climax of New Zealand Music Month, but everybody seems to have scheduled gigs for this Saturday. This week I'll have a look at them, plus... Read More

I'm writing this week's column from Fiji; I came on holiday by mistake. That's a quote - not the Fiji bit - from Withnail And I, one of the great English films.... Read More

All sorts of interesting local news titbits have been flying around in the past week and using only the decaying remnants of my memory, I'll try and pin some of... Read More