Malcolm Gayfer

Some sad news to round off the weekend from the entertainment world. Sir Thomas Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who transformed the James Bond franchise died over the weekend aged 90. The actor from Fountainbridge, Edinburgh was the first actor to play Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films bet

Over two decades in the south Lynley McKerrow has near everything packed up and is ready to move to pastures and adventures new. Our more than personable Town Crier has decided that the time is right to make the break. Over a quick coffee at her inner city flat Lynley McKerrow told whatsoninvers.nz

Hiya team. Seems like a never ending parade of stars passing through the gates to enter another or better world. First up, and we omitted to mention it at the time but the man who created one of the most memorable songs of the early 70’s Johnny Nash passed away at his home in Texas […]

Hiya team. We’re at it again with another dose of Rocktober. Two crackers for you with Foo Fighters Learn To Fly from 1999 then it’s back to the real old days, the 1970’s with English hard rockers Foghat. Foghat made a point of using plenty of slide guitar on their tracks. The track Drivin’ Wheel […

An Invercargill man fast approaching the grand age of 89 is about to teach us all a thing or two about keeping positive and active. Peter Grandiek is about to take on a 100k ride around Invercargill on his bike. The octogenarian will be on his pedals on Friday October 16 as a fundraiser for […]

Hi there team…..this is not the way how I thought whatsoninvers rocktober would start, saying RIP to one of the top axe men in rock n roll, Edward (Eddie) Lodewijk Van Halen. As you probably know Eddie Van Halen lost his long battle with cancer aged 65. As with most tributes, it’s a mission to […]

If you notice anything odd with your power supply, call us. That’s the message from PowerNet in the follow up to a power surge that affected parts of South Invercargill late last month. The outage occurred on Sunday 20 September and affected 97 customers in the Kew/Kingswell areas, causing household

Hiya team, not a good week, firstly we lost Helen Reddy and now singer / songwriter Mac Davis has also left us, but left us with some great songs. Word is that Mac died following heart surgery aged 78, same age as Helen Reddy Mac was multi talented musician, solo performer, TV host and of […]