Nest Fest 2024 5th + 6th January 2024 Tomoana Showgrounds, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rosheen FitzGerald, Rob Harbers & Hayley Osterfield. Photography by Hayley Munro, Jessie Broad & Felix Goetze. Right at the place where Hastings changes from rural to urban, TomoanaContinue Reading
Arahi – After Hours at Vinci’s 20th January 2023 Vinci’s Pizza, Napier, New Zealand. Review by Rosheen Fitzgerald, photography by Jessie Broad. A narrow corridor of a pizza parlour is not an obvious choice for a gig venue. But byContinue Reading
Ish 7th October 2022 Spaceship, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers. Photography by Jessie Broad. In the same vein as the Common Room having an upstart sibling the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival has a scrappy and pugnacious cousin, in the formContinue Reading
Sea Mouse 10th September 2022 Paisley Stage, Napier, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers. Photography by Jessie Broad. In 1974, Jon Landau famously said “I have seen rock ‘n’ roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen”, having encountered the nascentContinue Reading
Che Fu & The Kratez 12th August 2022 Toitoi, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers. Photography by Jessie Broad. The latest Hawkes Bay Arts Festival ‘Taster’ event saw Che Fu and the Kratez bring their sweetly soulful hip-hop toContinue Reading
Troy Kingi & Delaney Davidson 10th August 2022 Toitoi, Hastings, New Zealand. Review by Rob Harbers. Photography by Jessie Broad. Continuing the Taster Series of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, this time around saw the return of Troy Kingi toContinue Reading
ANNA CODDINGTON: Giving Myself Permission To Be Wordy An interview by Jessie Moss. Anna Coddington’s new album ‘Beams’ has been released, and as such you can now find her touring the country. Beams is a beautifully woven album, co-produced withContinue Reading
Kiwi acts Theia, Ciaran McMeeken, Estère and Opal House are joining a line-up of 1000 musicians playing intimate shows in 200 cities over 24 hours on September 20. The first-of-its-kind concert series called Give a Home aims to unite people in welcoming refugees. It will bring established and emergingContinue Reading