Gig Guide

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

It is a dark and stormy night, and strange things are afoot at the Barraclough mansion. With the recently deceased master of the manor lying in state in the library, bumbling solicitors Blundell (Ian Reeves) and Mickleby (Jason Fraser) arrive to read his will, in which he divides his fortune between

If you were going to be someone famous, it would pay to have an interesting name, but for Jago Byatt he doesn’t need to change a thing. The well-known rocker, singer, guitarist and songwriter has just recorded two new songs with his band Hoodaki. And the icing on the cake is that his clever 13-year-

The Mockers were at the peak of their mid-80s pop prowess when they released this single. It originated with Andrew Fagan’s Wellington based co-writer Gary Curtis hearing reports of the 1984 Queen Street riot in Auckland (after an outdoor concert which had featured The Mockers). The music video plac