Entertainment

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. […]

After a hugely successful debut on TVNZ DUKE in 2019, SPW are happy to confirm we will be returning in 2020! We will be capturing content throughout the year at our Live Events with an expected first air date on TVNZ DUKE in July. This will then be made available via TVNZ On Demand. We […]

Hi there team and welcome to another Mal’s Music Memory Two artists have made the news (so far) this week. Billy Idol for the wrong reasons and Ozzy Osborne. In case you haven’t caught up with it, Ozzie the Great has been diagnosed with a type of Parkinson’s disease. He really didn’t sound on top […