The Lap: Days 44 and 45: Hey CU in the NT, here’s a roo and a thunderstorm!
"If I'm gonna hit him, I'd rather hit him going fast than while slowing down and risk losing control", Ben had told me a week ago of his motorcycle vs...
In Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Review by Chelsea Pickens
Disclaimer: This review is coming unashamedly from the Harry Potter fandom. I’m one of those people. I have horcruxes ha...
The Lap: Days 22-42/43: The Blur/ Here I go again!
https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg
Great song.
I meant to write a post summing up my time in Cairns before I left, but I never got around to it. Now I...
In Review: They Shall Not Grow Old
Written by Chelsea Pickens
Being real for a second, the draw of this documentary film for me was undeniably that 'it was something by Peter Jackson...
In Review: Medusa at Loft at Q
Words Alysha Jensen photos Julie Zhu
Medusa will attack your senses, your emotions and all views you have on the power structures around us. Be pre...
In Review: Panic! At The Disco @ Spark Arena, Auckland
Words by Angela Rose Asuncion / Photography by Chony Musson
Lights. Camera. Action. Panic! At The Disco brought their Pray for the Wicked tour to o...
Interview: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ Ronnie Winter
Words by Shelley Te Haara
Ahead of their show in New Zealand this November, The Speakeasy was lucky enough to have a chat over the phone with the l...
The Lap: Days 17, 18, 19, 20: Stranded In Paradise
I woke up in the 20ft container I decided to sleep in on the road train. I maximised my time asleep by not going to the city to a backpackers, and bac...
The Lap: Days 15 & 16: The Big Off
Day 15
I woke up to birdsong and the smell of wet earth from the rains overnight, feeling fantastic and ready for another day's riding towards Cape Y...
The Lap: Day 14: Momentum is your friend
"Momentum is your friend", I was told multiple times by multiple people over the past week. "Keep your weight on the pegs on the corrugations, and ste...
The Lap: Days 11, 12, 13: Well, you’re up!
Day 11:
"Are you guys going across that on your bikes?", the lady standing next to me by her car said before Ben bolted. Apparently he'd asked me to ...
Album Announcement + New Music: Tints — Anderson .Paak ft. Kendrick Lamar
Following the release of lead single, Bubblin’, comes the groovy, sun-splashed second single from Anderson .Paak’s latest album, Oxnard — Tints. The t...
In Review: A Star Is Born
"A Star is Born" is something of a Hollywood institution, seemingly being remade for every generation. Yes, it seems that the timeless story of the pe...
INTERVIEW: Frank Turner
Interview by Shelley Te Haara
After announcing a couple of New Zealand shows as part of his Be More Kind World Tour, The Speakeasy was lucky enough...
The Lap: Days 7, 8, 9, 10: We can’t stop here, this is croc country!
Day 7. I'm in my tent in Giru, where I've swapped the steady hum of my bike engine for the steady hum of a sugar cane mill 100m away.
Woke up with ...
The Lap: Days 3, 4, 5, 6: Airlie Beach
This entry has less to do with motorcycling, and more to do with me keeping myself occupied for the last 4 days. I think it's worth writing about, so ...
The Lap: Day 2: Can’t believe I rode 850kms for this shit!
I had an excellent sleep in my Black Wolf UL 1 tent beside the Booyal Roadhouse Fuel and Restaurant. I woke up warm and dry, to the sound of some horr...
IN REVIEW: Listen In Festival – Spark Arena, Auckland
Words and photography by Chony Musson
I would say, I’m no stranger to hip hop and drum and bass, but my mother told me not to lie. Regardless, when I...
IN REVIEW: Wolf Alice @ The Powerstation, Auckland
Words by Grace Hood-Edwards
Photography by Shelley Te Haara
“How the fuck is everyone doing on a Sunday night?!” Theo Ellis, bassist for Wolf Alic...
IN REVIEW: Vance Joy @ Auckland Town Hall
Words by Maddy Hattan
A rush of excitement filled the room as the lights went down and what could have been an angel appeared, guitar in hand and a...
The Lap: Day 1: The Storm
If I rode under the arse of a thunderstorm yesterday, then today I crawled up the guts of another.
Weather forecast: scattered thunderstorms all d...