Entertainment

Auckland pop sensation Benee – aka Stella Bennett – has gone viral on video-sharing platform TikTok twice, but manager Paul McKessar says her success is based on an ‘old-fashioned hit record’. In 2019, a New Zealand TikToker performed a dance with two friends to Benee’s ‘Glitter’, which spread aroun

Hiya team, here we are just about at the end of May and NZ Music Month is drawing to a close. Let’s go out with three first class crackers. First up Sharon O’Neill with a come-back song from the late 80’s, Danced In The Fire. Here is a kiwi singer songwriter that could’ve and should’ve […]

Lockdown brought out many hidden talents and passions, and for musicians Chris Tansley and Chris Chilton it was a chance to help write an entire new album. Many will remember the duo when they were part of the band London Polyplop and later Panic Attack in the 1980s and early 90s. “Once that band fi

Hiya team, how has the week been travelling for you? We continue our NZ Music Month special with our friends at Little Fire MusicWorks with a couple of crackers. A bit of 80’s Culture (Culcha!)  from Wellington band The Knobz. Their only hit. If you were around during the Muldoon era you would pick

The curtain is coming down on an illustrious role our ambassador for the arts has played. Great South Creative Arts manager Ange Newell is moving away from a role that had small beginnings 20 years ago. Ange Newell says after 20 years it’s time to look for a change and new challenges. Ms Newell said

Hiya team….well we’re in alert level 2 now. A relief to be able to go out and about again and enjoy some of the simple things in life although in some cases with a bit of a twist. Anyway we continue our voyage of discovery or re discovery of some timeless kiwi gems and celebrate […]

Sad news from the weekend with news that Little Richard had passed away. Little Richard came from that wonderful era of the dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll with contemporaries like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry to name a few. They say that Little Richard was the architect of Rock’n Roll. In my

Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television’s most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms Seinfeld and The King of Queens, has died aged 92, his son Ben Stiller said. “I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes,” wrote Ben, a Hollywood comedian who appeared w