Entertainment

Three-piece alternative rock band ‘The Dense’ has its first album release this week, and they have chosen Invercargill to celebrate the milestone. The self-titled album will feature on Spotify and i-Tunes from Friday but the group is also coming home to where it all started, performing at Tuatara Ca

Guns N’ Roses made our collective rock’n’roll dreams come true with 2017’s Not In This Lifetime tour and now Paul Dainty AM, President & CEO of TEG DAINTY is thrilled to announce one of the greatest bands of all time will return to tour Australia & New Zealand in November 2021. As the first stadium

Hi there team, we’re in November so time to enjoy some songs that became hit TV shows. We’ll start with a couple from the early 80’s, one from Britain and one from the US. Both of these songs and the TV shows were winners here, Minder and The Greatest American Hero although from memory American […]

A Southland teenage musician who has just released his first single  says he’s using the region’s binge drinking culture for inspiration. Alex Dykes, of Central Southland, who is currently studying politics at Otago University, said while most young people were responsible in their alcohol consumpti

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

The culmination of a year’s worth of amazing creativity, technical flair and artistic energy will be showcased by Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) Music and Audio Production students at Centrestage on November 4th, in celebration of the stunning talent in the SIT student community, and making

The biggest video store in Australasia is having a massive clearance starting on Monday. United Video South City Invercargill currently has 120,000 stock units and owner Daryle Blackler said he wants to offload 80,000 of them. Also the longest serving video store owner in New Zealand, Daryle has own

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 […]