Interview: Amy Shark
Amy Shark is as charming and hilarious in person as you would hope. Even though I was ten minutes late to our meeting and ridiculously sweaty from sprinting down Victoria Street, she was warm and friendly and e...
Interview: Against the Current
Words by Shelley Te Haara
Against The Current hit our shores next week for the first time! The 3-piece will be playing at the Tuning Fork, performing tracks off their debut album In Our Bones. Shelley had th...
Interview: Joe Principe of Rise Against
With their NZ headline tour fast approaching, I took a break from my European travels and had a 2am phone chat with Rise Against's bassist Joe Principe from my stuffy loft-bed-situation in the heart of Prague. ...
Interview: Alice Canton of OTHER [chinese]
Sometime in early June I attended a theatre workshop run by Alice Canton and Julie Zhu called “What is Chinese?”. It featured a series of activities and discussions on what “being Chinese” was in Aotearoa/New Z...
Interview: Ciaran McMeeken
After building his musical foundation in Dunedin, Ciaran McMeeken made the move up to Auckland in 2015 to pursue the most courageous venture – making music. Despite the growing acoustic and folk movement, McMee...
Interview: Albion Place
Finding their roots in the crisp heart of Dunedin, Albion Place have been lighting up their hometown with indie rock-inspired beats since 2011. Now, they are making waves across the rest of the country with the...
Interview: Decades
Ten years ago, Decades were an emo cover band called Taking Back Thursday*. Today, they've not only had the opportunity to support Taking Back Sunday, the band that pretty much started it all for them, but they...
Interview: Sam Hales – The Jungle Giants
It was the afternoon before the release of The Jungle Giants' new record Quiet Ferocity, and frontman Sam Hales was sure he wouldn't be sleeping that night.
After fumbling around with his hands free set ("It...
Interview: Luke Player – The Pinheads
Seven-piece Aussie punk-rockers The Pinheads have been on the scene for four years and, when not putting on one of their famously wild live shows, they can be found ten-pin bowling and eating slimy pizza in the...
Interview: Diaz Grimm
With a fresh track ready to drop on July 7th, Diaz Grimm talks to us about what inspires and motivates him, and how he navigates the world of music with his unique take on rap and refreshing perspective of the ...
Raising Awareness: Music Therapy Week
As someone who eat, sleeps, and breathes music, I am well aware that it has the ability to bring you back to life when you most need it. As music journalists, we turn to our favourite albums or attend concerts ...
Interview: Tristan Evans – The Vamps
Four-piece Brit pop-rockers The Vamps have been on the scene for 5 years - since the oldest member was only 17 - and have yet to make it to our little island, but the loyal fans of New Zealand (the only kind we...
Introducing: DUNES
I've always loved that feeling of laughing or smiling so much that your jaw aches for hours after a conversation ends, and just a short time chatting with sisters Jamie and Tessa McDell - otherwise known as Dun...
Interview: Theia
There may be times that we scan the endless lists of tour dates posted by international artists and feel our hearts sink when New Zealand, once again, does not make an appearance. Sometimes, though, it's import...
Chye-Ling Huang talks about her new play ‘Like Sex’
Prudes, sluts, users and the used - in a carousel of episodic scenes, Like Sex a bold play written by 2015 and 2016 Playmarket b425 Playwright award winner Nathan Joe, tears into the tropes of teenage sex as so...
INTERVIEW: All Time Low
All Time Low popped by last week for a fleeting visit to play an unforgettable headline show at Auckland's Powerstation. I got to have a chat with them and found out that on top of being one of the best bands i...
NZ International Comedy Festival: Talking Comedy with Scott W Long
Scott W Long likes to offer audiences something a little different with his comedy. He's blessed (or some may argue cursed) with an innate ability to take and idea or concept and run with it, and boy does he ev...
Auckland Fringe: Nathan Joe Discusses ‘Penis Elegy’
During the Auckland Fringe Festival, the Basement Theatre is transformed into a 'Performance Salon' - think Moulin Rouge at the beach – where works of all kinds pop up around you as you lounge and drink in betw...
Ben Anderson talks ‘The Last Man on Earth is Trapped in a Supermarket’
An eerie experience of hours spent working alone in a Countdown supermarket drove Ben Anderson to write a play - and not just any play.
Anderson's "supermarket apocalypse puppet-thriller" follows Tom, a man ...
Interview: The Smith Street Band – Chris Cowburn
When The Smith Street Band drummer, Chris Cowburn (far right in the picture above), suggested we do our interview in one of the band's vans in The Corner Hotel carpark, I couldn't help but point out that it sou...
Interview: Alexisonfire – George Pettit
Prior to their upcoming New Zealand show in January. I spoke to front-man George Pettit of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. We talked about the upcoming tour, future plans and The Ramones. Check it out!
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