Entertainment

Hi there team and welcome to May….New Zealand Music month. Over the month we’ll haul out some absolute kiwi crackers from days way back to reasonably recently. We’ll start by marking the passing of Deane Sutherland. Sadly Deane passed away at the end of March after a long battle with cancer. Due to

Five years after releasing his debut disc Long Time Coming, Invercargill singer-songwriter John Pringle has dropped his follow-up EP, Another Day. It’s a gorgeously engaging musical statement at a time when the world is recoiling from the turmoil of global health shock. If John was hoping to provide

Hiya team….and what a cracking day it is, well as I write this it is, lets hope it continues. Another couple of first class crackers to wind up LockDown Live. First up a song that’s taken on a life of its own, Journey’s  Don’t Stop Believing, from the days when Steve Perry was the voice […]

Hiya team how’s the week been treating you? And now we transition from level 4 back to level 3 , a step closer to life as normal, whatever the new normal will be, but that’s a discussion for another day. Again another couple of crackers from performers who are at their best in front of […]

Hiya team….Level 4 lock down soon to travel to Level 3. It’ll all be over soon, hopefully soon. Have faith. Anyway as we said at the start of the month, we’ll put up a couple of tracks from artists doing what they do best, that is perform in front of an audience. Here’s a couple […]

Remember shows like Happy Days, Days of our Lives, The Professionals,  Barney Miller and more Back in the days when we had the choice of TV One or South Pacific Television later Channel Two. Today in part #1 we take a trip back to June 7-13, 1986 with the Listener TV One listings. Part #2 Windback [

The whānau of the man who wrote ‘Pokarekare Ana’ are inviting people to lift their lockdown spirits by taking part in a mass performance of the waiata this afternoon. At 3pm, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra together with the Tomoana whānau and composer Ngatai Huata will perform the song attribute

Hiya team. How’s your lock down week going? Can be a bit tiresome I know. So to liven it up a tad we’re doing April Live…..picking some of the best tunes by the best artists performing in front of an audience. That Covid-19 might mean that’s a thing of the past going forward. Here’s […]