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Vance Joy Returns With New Single ‘Lay It On Me’

August 2, 2017

Following a period of writing and recording abroad, Aussie singer-songwriter Vance Joy has unveiled a brand new single, ‘Lay It On Me’. The song is the first taste of new music from Vance Joy since 2014’s hu...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Patch Lambert – Terrordactyl

Oliver Smith

May 17, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

Well here we are folks, the end of the beginning of the end of the NZ International Comedy Festival 2017. The final week of the Fest has the honour of containing shows from this years Billy T nominees, and w...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Tim Muller – Laugh Now, Google Later

Oliver Smith

May 13, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

It was a mild Friday evening, early evening, 5:30pm a time slot generally reserved for the more family-friendly comedians, and certainly Tim Muller is the kind of act that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Th...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Guy Montgomery – Let’s All Get In A Room Together

Oliver Smith

May 12, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

To say the weather was inclement on Thursday night would be an understatement, the cloud looked down on us ominously, a precursor to the downpour that would follow. While this may give lesser comedians to wo...

In Review: David Oakes – Sex Drugs and Veggie Rolls

Oliver Smith

May 11, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

David Oakes returned to the Kingslander this year with a new show Sex Drugs and Veggie Rolls, after the success of Limited Company, performed at the same venue, the year before. I always enjoy venturing out ...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Marika, China and Lauren – PS We Also Love Cats

Oliver Smith

May 11, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

The weather in May has been a mixed bag, the sort that probably inspired Crowded House to write their classic song 'Four Seasons in One Day'. I found myself once again at the Cellar of Q Theatre on a muggy n...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Donna Brookbanks – Cat-Lady-In-Waiting

Oliver Smith

May 10, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

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It's funny. At any other time of the year, Tuesday would never be considered a day for a night on the town, by any stretch of the imagination. I would almost consider it almost a beauty of the NZ Internation...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Lana Walters and James Mustapic – Jokes B4 Blokes

Oliver Smith

May 10, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

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As we welcome in the 3rd week of the NZ International Comedy Festival, we find ourselves in the midpoint of a mammoth month of comedy, having enjoyed glasses filled to the brim with laughter and entertainment, ...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: David Correos – “Going Full Correos”

Oliver Smith

May 6, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival, Uncategorized

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When asked to describe what watching a David Correos gig is like I usually start by telling them they've got it all wrong. You don't 'watch' Correos perform - it's so much more than that - you experience it. Da...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Happy Hour – Tony Lyall

Oliver Smith

May 4, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

Tony Lyall is a comedian that I have a lot of time for. The two-time NZ Raw Quest semi-finalist is a tornado of energy onstage, and his crowd work is a thing of legend, so I entered his first solo NZ Internatio...

NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Success With Women: A Comedy Seminar – Harry, Inosi and Ross

Oliver Smith

May 3, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival, Spotlight

It was a blisteringly cold Tuesday night when I made my way to the basement to watch comedy up-and-comers Harry Thompson-Cook, Ross Mills and Inosi Calavanua perform in their first ever festival show. May al...

NZ International Comedy Festival in review: Ashton Brown – Anxious To Meet You

Oliver Smith

April 29, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, NZ International Comedy Festival

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It was a muggy Friday night as I made my way to the Cellar at Q Theatre to watch Ashton Brown, a comedian I have a lot of time for and a venue I felt very familiar with. I certainly remembered the Cellar, re...

2017 NZ International Comedy Festival: Shows To Watch This Weekend

Oliver Smith

April 29, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, Night Life, NZ International Comedy Festival

Some of the world’s best-loved comedians are coming for Kiwi laughs this month, as the 2017 NZ International Comedy Festival gets underway. The festival is the highlight of New Zealand’s burgeoning comedy ca...

Irks and Quirks With Oliver Smith: “The Selfie”

Oliver Smith

February 1, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, Geek and Web

So at the first look of the title you may think to yourself “Yay another article bashing young people and their vacuous and vain need to constantly litter the internet with images of themselves.” Well it’s not,...

Irks and Quirks With Oliver Smith: Why do people take pizza so seriously?

Oliver Smith

January 25, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, Geek and Web

Irks and Quirks is a comedic series that deals less in facts, news, or events, and instead is weighted more on opinion. Whose opinion you ask? Oliver Smith's obviously, he's writing it. Sociopath ...

Irks and quirks With Oliver Smith: Why do people like Boba Fett?

Oliver Smith

January 16, 2017

Comedy, Entertainment, Geek and Web

Star Wars is one of the best known franchises to ever exist. It is a divisive series with a split between a large and devoted fan base, and old school movie fans on the other who claim it ruined the summer bloc...

Top 5 Creepiest Christmas Songs

Oliver Smith

December 22, 2016

Comedy, Entertainment, Music, Uncharted

I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas music. On one hand it carries a lot of nostalgia, it reminds me of the time as a kid when dad would dust off the Christmas cassette and we would listen to it in th...

Irks And Quirks With Oliver Smith: Nostalgia

Oliver Smith

August 28, 2016

Comedy, Entertainment, Geek and Web

Before I start to rant and ramble, I might as well introduce the scope of this series. Irks and Quirks deals less in facts, news, or events, and instead is weighted more on opinion. Whose opinion you ask? Mine ...

In Review: Batman: The Killing Joke

Oliver Smith

July 27, 2016

Entertainment, Film, Geek and Web

Disclaimer: This review contains spoilers It is hard to quantify the impact that The Killing Joke has had on the culture of comic books. It represents many things, a massive change to the Batman mythos, the ...

Bill Bailey Returns To New Zealand In October!

Oliver Smith

July 24, 2016

Comedy, Entertainment

Bill Bailey is set to bring his new show "Larks in Transit" to New Zealand shores late this October, for four nights of Bailey's brand of surreal and musical comedy. While Bailey is best known for playing Ma...

Pokemon GO is a go

Oliver Smith

July 7, 2016

Gaming, Geek and Web

I would like you to cast your minds back to when you were ten. Sitting at home on a rainy weekend afternoon, in your hands resides a Game Boy. Inside is a cartridge that just became a global sensation, and now ...

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