Gig Guide

The ILT has had a busy month of celebrations leading up to Christmas with a whole raft of exciting events for the community. The ever popular street party is back this year but has been moved to Leet Street outside the Lone Star Restaurant this Friday, where food and music will keep punters entertai

ILT’s iconic Irish pub is celebrating 21 years of business on Saturday 17 December. A birthday party is planned to mark the occasion with past managers, staff and the wider community invited to join the festivities and share memories from the past two decades. Waxy O’Sheas Irish Pub was Invercargill

Realtor group Bayleys has signed on as naming rights sponsor for Bayleys Tussock Country – New Zealand’s Country Music Festival. Bayleys has secured naming rights sponsorship of the festival for the following three years, further cementing its longstanding commitment to arts and community causes. An

It’s official. Rod Stewart has announced that he will be rockin’ Forsyth Barr Stadium next year. Sir Rod was down to do a show in Dunedin, but the pandemic struck , the show was off, and that was that. We were Rodless, so to speak. However great news to cap off a week, Sir Rod […]

Tauranga-born blues artist Grant Haua will be performing in the south over the next few days, on the back of an extensive European summer festival. His five-week tour of New Zealand includes gigs in Gore on Wednesday, Stewart Island on Thursday and He Waka Tuia in Invercargill on Friday night. Haua

Saturday night will be rock n roll night as we celebrate the Platinum anniversary of  the Southland Rock n Roll Hall of Fame at the Ascot Park Hotel. The show was to feature 4 of Southland’s top bands from the 60’s and 70’s but sadly they’ve had to drop to three due to Dave Kennedy […]

Good friends Chloe Binns and Christina Downey have breathed some new life into Glengarry with their takeaway food and coffee outlet opening last week. People may remember the Kava Food Invers food truck that was situated originally at the Farmers Market and more recently in Tweed St – they still hav

James Hargest College band The Terrace has made it through to the semi-finals of the Smokefreerockquest for the first time. Made up of band members Ailin Pekar (lead singer and rhythm guitarist), Blake Humphrey (lead guitar), Jackson Jones (bass guitar), and Aiden Hosie on drums, the group released