Malcolm Gayfer

Very, very sad news this week with news that one of our finest, Ann Robbie passed away earlier this week. Ann, described as a Pocket Rocket in one obituary has had a long involvement in the world of pipe band music and pipe bands. Read Alister MacGregor’s tribute Never Say Never from the Royal New [

This from the RNZAF P-3K2 – Orion fly past. Hey there team, keep your camera’s handy and keep an eye on the skies for this flypast this afternoon. Note the times could be approximate. ORION FLYPAST ALERT The last two of our P-3K2 Orion fleet are heading for Base Woodbourne today following a close […

It’s not been the best way to start a new year with more than a few top names leaving us for the great gig in the sky. Here in good ol’ NZ we lost Larry Morris . Larry was the biz in the 60’s (older followers will recall) as front man for top band Larry’s […]

Well, oh so sad news to start the year with news of the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck. The word “legend” gets bandied about describing this person and that person but Jeff Beck attained legendary status in the world of rock and all its genres. The British guitarist passed away this week after [

The activity of the Royal New Zealand Air Force over the last few days certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. The go-rounds and touch and go’s of a C – 130 Hercules on Thursday captured the imaginations of many. Whatsoninvers was bombarded with pics and videos of the transport plane that has been one of t

Hi team, not exactly the way we’d like to end the week but more sad news from the music world with the sudden passing of Fleetwood Mac’s long, long time keyboard player Christine McVie. McVie died in hospital after a short illness surrounded by her family. Fleetwood Mac put out this tribute “She was

Sad news from the weekend with the passing of Singer-songwriter, actor  Irene Cara. Who doesn’t remember her playing Coco Hernandez in the hit movie Fame? That success was followed a couple of years later with Cara co writing  Flashdance…What A Feeling, the theme from the monster hit movie Flashdanc

It’s official. Rod Stewart has announced that he will be rockin’ Forsyth Barr Stadium next year. Sir Rod was down to do a show in Dunedin, but the pandemic struck , the show was off, and that was that. We were Rodless, so to speak. However great news to cap off a week, Sir Rod […]