Hi all. Hope that you’re all getting used to the earlier (and earlier) sunsets and cooler temps. Anyway for March we’re playing Just Good Songs with our friends at Little Fire Music Works. Were you around when this song, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) was playing everywhere at the end of 1979. A grea
Hi team, we’re back and ready to celebrate music from days gone by. Did you know that Split Enz album True Colours is 40 this year? I didn’t realize that either til Neil Finn posted that it was this week that marked the 40th anniversary of that iconic album entered the NZ music charts at […]
Hi team and welcome to the middle of March, already! Time for another Just Good Song. This one from 1977 from The Brothers Johnson, Strawberry Letter 23. This is the only hit of their’s that I recall getting played on the radio back in the day and it’s still a good song today. Just listen […]
Hi team and welcome to the middle of March, already! Time for another Just Good Song. This one from 1977 from The Brothers Johnson, Strawberry Letter 23. This is the only hit of their’s that I recall getting played on the radio back in the day and it’s still a good song today. Just listen […]
Hi all. Hope that you’re all getting used to the earlier (and earlier) sunsets and cooler temps. Anyway for March we’re playing Just Good Songs with our friends at Little Fire Music Works. Were you around when this song, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) was playing everywhere at the end of 1979. A grea
Hi team, we’re back and ready to celebrate music from days gone by. Did you know that Split Enz album True Colours is 40 this year? I didn’t realize that either til Neil Finn posted that it was this week that marked the 40th anniversary of that iconic album entered the NZ music charts at […]
Elton John says he’s “incredibly disappointed” to have to reschedule his Auckland concerts planned for this week until 2021. On Sunday, the performer cut short a show due to walking pneumonia and rescheduled a Tuesday concert to Wednesday. Late on Tuesday evening, a statement from his promoter was r
New Zealand’s well-loved national treasures Jools and Lynda Topp are heading to Tussock Country Music Festival and will perform at the SBS St James Theatre on Friday, 29 May 2020. Topp Twins will bring their original style of merriment, mayhem and mirth to the festival. The Gore’s country hills will
Fight for Gold 2020 was a huge success to kick off 2020 for SPW on Saturday night! Despite competing with numerous events going on in the city due to Burt Munro, we still sold out the Corinthian Centre with a loud and rowdy crowd! The show was filmed for a future TVNZ DUKE release. This […]
Hi there team. Just had to put this in. It was this week 1970 that one of the landmark albums of modern music was released. Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. The album and several tracks off it were hits all over the world. S&G went there separate ways for several years after its […]
Hiya team, at last we’ve got some real summer weather, and just as schools start for the 2020 year. Anyways, I came across the other day, went to No1 in the UK this week 1979. A big hit here as well around that time. Ian Dury and The Blockheads Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. […]
