First published on http://www.13thfloor.co.nz There’s no denying that this album is a difficult listen. Like all their work, defining exactly which planet they were on when they made this is as much a challenge as a truth. Fact or fiction it’s clear though that The Flaming Lips are not returning
Published on http://www.13thfloor.co.nz Last Call For Wellington’s Bodega On a quiet Friday afternoon music fanatic and long-time Bodega patron Tim Gruar popped up the road to have a beer with owner Murray (‘Mo’) Hepple (co-owner with Catherine Popert) to talk about his long career in the music industry, buying this
Published on http://www.13thfloor.co.nz Troy Kingi & The Electric Haka Boogie – Guitar Party At Uncle’s Bach (Lyttelton) Musician-actor Troy Kingi, is probably best known for playing the role of TK the selfish dad in Taika Waititi’s blockbuster Hunt for the Wilderpeople, although he’s also done a stint in the
Originally Published at http://www.13thfloor.co.nz Strangely Arousing & Funkacybin – Bodega November 11, 2016 Funkacybin, a loose but deft delivery with equal measures of funky fusion and grinding rock, the band lived up to their promise as a ‘high-octane funk metal’ act. Although their audience was small, mainly friends, supporters, workmates
First published at: http://www.13thfloor.co.z It was been, quite frankly, a sh*t of a week for Wellingtonians and North Cantabrians, given the 7.8 Richter scale earthquake in Kaikoura on Sunday; floods; slips and high winds; damaged buildings and aftershocks. If I hear how ‘resilient’ we all are one more time, I’ll
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