On a hot and sunny November evening I was lucky enough to catch of a very personal concert by upcoming Country Star, Jenny Mitchell at a secret location in upper Cuba Street. Here are a few shows from the gig.
Auckland has The Others Way and other cool indie smallfests and have done for some time. We, down here in Pōneke, have been just a little bit envious of that. But, finally, thanks to independent Eyegum Music Collective, we have a party just for us.
After recently reviewing Mel Parsons’ new album, ‘Slow Burn’ I was super keen to see her on stage again. How would these songs work live?
It’s hard to imagine this peaceful room, where many students hang out in the daytime to study, chat, or debate obscure political viewpoints could ever transform into the lair of some black sonic visionary like Andrew Eldritch.
England’s finest genre-blenders Pop Will Eat Itself (aka PWEI aka Poppies aka 80’s grebos) have returned. The last time I saw them I was still at Uni. That was before the glaciers started melting! Yep, for me it has been a long time between sips of the soda pop. I loved their wit and sarcasm, the way they spliced irony, hard-core and retro together and shook up the old tropes of the music industry templates. So I was keen to see if my teenage pop heroes could still live up to the legend I’d build in my own headphones.
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