ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring City
"Welcome to Spring City where something good can work"
Festival after festival have been poppin' up in Auckland for the summer, that includes Spring City at Ellerslie Racecourse! This Sunday out won't be o...
LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT: Bay Dreams
Less than 24 hours after going on sale, tickets for New Zealand's biggest summer festival, Bay Dreams, are already close to selling out.
Bay Dreams will be held at Trustpower Baypark Stadium at The Mount on...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Mardi Gras 2019
Mardi Gras is back for another year, this time adding a Queenstown date! The mid-winter street-style festival is truly one of a kind set in New Zealand most popular winter playgrounds.The first line-up announc...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Milk and Honey Festival
New Zealand is breaking the glass ceiling with the country’s brand new festival: Milk & Honey Festival. The festival will span over three cities in one night to celebrate International Womens Day: Friday 8...
Laneway Festival Schedule and Map released
There’s just under a week of waiting to go until Laneway 2018, and the playing times and map are here! Carry them with you on the Laneway Festival app, available to download below.
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Northern Bass: First lineup announcement includes Stormzy, Post Malone, and Andy C
The first lineup for the seventh annual Northern Bass Music Festival in Mangawhai is here!
The recently announced lineup and sees the international acts like Stormzy, Post Malone, and Andy C join Kiwi favs S...
The Auckland International Buskers Festival is Almost Here
The Auckland International Buskers Festival is almost upon us and will see acts from around the globe decend onto Auckland this Auckland Anniversary Weekend.
From Friday 27 – Monday 30 January, the Viaduct H...
9.5
In Review: I, Daniel Blake
The winner of the Palme d’Or, I, Daniel Blake arrives in New Zealand cinemas (after a successful festival run) with an impressive list of accolades.
While Ken Loach’s defiantly old school film is hardly grou...
Auckland City Limits returning for 2017
Auckland City Limits Music Festival will return to Auckland's Western Springs stadium and park on Saturday 11 March 2017.
The inaugural Auckland City Limits opened its gates on March this year to 25,000 fans...
The Speakeasy’s Incredibly Strange NZIFF Picks
The New Zealand International Film Festival prides itself on the breadth and depth of content it curates each year. This means they also present some truly bizarre films - so much so that the Festival has even ...
One Love Festival Returns For Two Days Of Sunshine Reggae In 2017 – First Line-Up Announced!
Lock in the dates! The first installment of acts playing at the 2017 ONE LOVE FESTIVAL has just been announced. And with a line-up of epic proportions stretched over two days of sunshine and sweet vibes, this i...
Start with a drink: NZ Boutique Wine Festival
What does grown up feel like? Are we there yet? Is this it? How will we know when we’ve matured?
Thanks to the colleagues and acquaintances who along the way have told me to “grow up” and “act my age”. Fair ...
In Bed With Kat and Luke : Cannes Day 5 & 6
Kat Glass and Luke Thornborough are a young kiwi filmmaking couple currently attending the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in France, where their short film NUMB is showing in the Short Film Corner.
They'll be bri...
Talking Comedy – THE FAN BRIGADE
The 2016 NZ International Comedy Festival will be hitting our shores from 22nd April – 15th May, showcasing dozens of local and international comedians. In the weeks leading up to New Zealand’s biggest comedy e...
8.8
In Review: Mr Holmes
It would be fair to ask the question, “Is there a version of Sherlock Holmes that we haven’t seen on the screen?”
Incarnations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character date as far back as the 1920s and more ...
7.5
In Review: The Rover
Set in a bleak post-apocalyptic Australia “10 years after the collapse”, "The Rover", David Michôd’s highly anticipated follow up to Animal Kingdom is a terse and tense neo-western that examines the aftermath o...