Drivin’ Out to Piha (Photo Essay)
March 9, 2019
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Eminem, Wellington NZ, 2019
March 5, 2019
First published @ https://www.ambientlightblog.com/eminem-wellington-nz-2019 Last year there was a tourist campaign that asked the question: “Nil Ziland! Where the bloody hell are ya?!!” I’ll tell you where they were, at least tonight. Almost 46,500 Kiwis were here, at the Capital’s Westpac Stadium to see Hip Hop royalty rave it up.
Technology On Winding Roads: A C.W. Stoneking Interview
February 26, 2019
First published at: https://www.ambientlightblog.com/technology-on-winding-roads-a-c-w-stoneking-interview/ Just ahead of his appearance at the Kapiti Coast’s Coastella Festival, a part of his New Zealand tour – retro-blues merchant C.W. Stoneking talks to Tim Gruar about discovering and playing music that’s out of time, going all ‘Boogaloo’ and working with Jack White and Josh Homme.
WOMAD 2019 Interviews: My Baby
February 26, 2019
First published at: https://www.ambientlightblog.com/womad-2019-interviews-my-baby/ Tim Gruar continues his series about artists coming to Womad in March, this time talking to Dutch/Kiwi three piece My Baby – a group that defies the usual trappings of the music industry machinery, preferring to tour, record and produce entirely under their own steam.
WOMAD 2019 Interviews: Congress Of Animals
February 26, 2019
First published at: https://www.ambientlightblog.com/womad-2019-interviews-congress-of-animals/ As part of our series of interviews with artists playing at this year’s WOMAD, Tim Gruar talks to fellow Wellingtonian Ben Lemi about the new Congress of Animals Collective, mixing with the ‘Muppet-man’ and strange men in his garden.
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