Gig Guide

Well perhaps the eyesight on stage was a little fuzzier than 1969, but the sounds were certainly sharp as a tack on Easter Sunday. Punters by the hundreds gathered in the Corinthian Centre, Invercargill Workingmens Club Inc to see Vision 50th anniversary show. 50 years. Wow. Let that sink in for a s

Hi team, how’s your week been treating you so far? A short week too as the Easter break approaches. Our series of Songs of April continues with Three Dog Night’s Pieces of April. While not one of their biggest hits Pieces Of April had good chart success when it came out in the early 70’s. […]

Legendary Southland band Vision will celebrate 50 years with a special one-off reunion concert in Invercargill on Easter Sunday, 21 April. All five original members – Bob Daley, John Kennedy, Dave Kennedy, Warren “Bricky” McLew and Dave Gillies – will be there, although founding guitarist Bob Daley

The soaring success of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, the highest grossing music biopic of all time, has proven that the love for Queen remains as strong as ever. Lifelong New Zealand fans and new converts will be thrilled with the news that Queen original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor are te

Hi there team, how have you all been coping with the changeable weather this week. Certainly a shock to the system. We wind up The Sounds Of Summer with this cracker from REM. A good band in their day. Whatever happened to them, are they still going? A special shout out to to everyone getting […]

Last weekend, we again took our 5 bands; Grade 2, G4A, G4B and Juvenile A and Juvenile B bands up to Dunedin for a 2 day contest; The South Island Pipe Band Champs. In each grade, we competed against bands from up and down the island including Southland, Otago and Canterbury. Backing up our positive

Just announced, Elton John will be back under the roof during the New Zealand leg of his global Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour on Tuesday 4 February 2020. 35,500 southern fans were entertained by the legendary star when Sir Elton was the opening concert at Forsyth Barr Stadium on 25 November 2011.

News has come through that one of NZ’s best guitar pickers Peter Posa passed away at the weekend. In his day few came close to pickin’ a guitar like Peter. His talent and skill took him all over NZ, Australia, Pacific Islands and the USA working with some of the greats like Frank Sinatra. Peter […]