Published in Ripitup.co.nz – http://ripitup.co.nz/music/review-summer-twins-limbo/ Twenty something sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown have served up a cinematic retro mixtape of 50’s sock hop ‘Juju’, ‘Blinds’; Bassey era Bond music ‘Demons’ and mid 90’s alt pop. ‘Stop and Go’ and ‘So Funny’ remind me, particularly, of the Milkman or Julianna Hadfield
Published in http://www.ripitup.co.nz / http://ripitup.co.nz/culture/no-mans-land/ NO MAN’S LAND John Psathas/Jasmine Millet/Mathew Knight Featuring 150 musicians from over 20 countries, composer John Psathas’s (ONZM) new-grand scale project, No Man’s Land, which debuts at Wellington’s New Zealand Festival, next month, unites descendants of opposing forces in WWI, on film, performing on the
Written for Booksellers.co.nz / https://booksellersnz.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/book-review-the-little-yellow-digger-treasury-by-betty-alan-gilderdale/ Apart from the Little Yellow Digger series Betty Gilderdale is probably best known as being a scholar of New Zealand children’s literature, including her ground-breaking study A Sea Change: 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction (1982), which won the PEN Award for best first
Aussie folk-popsters Boy and Bear (Dave Hosking (vocals /guitars); Killian Gavin (guitars/vocals), Tim Hart (drums/vocals), Jon Hart (keys/vocals) and Dave Symes (bass/vocals)) kicked off their Australasian tour on Friday 22 January in Tasmania, in support of their third album Limit of Love. Tim Gruar caught up with their drummer, Tim
On a hot and sticky night the Capital’s fashionably late are still preening and showering after their day at the beach. So the Opera House remains a cavernous echo chamber when the first act Eden Mulholland and Adam Topeck open the show with a solid set from Eden’s latest release.
