British chart-topper Newton Faulkner will open his New Zealand tour with a performance at Christchurch’s NZ International Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, April 10.
In his relatively young career, Faulkner has shared a stage with James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, The Fray, Chris Martin, John Butler Trio and John Mayer, but now he is going it [...]
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So you reckon you know all about your celebrity? You may have to revise that thought.
Some of them barely know their own family history.
Seven of America’s leading stars of movies, television and sports share their journeys into their pasts in NBC’s new TV series Who Do You Think You Are? starting on Friday.
The show takes [...]
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I am so proud of New Zealand artists and am very REALLY annoyed that some of them got caught up with Sellaband.com bankruptcy.
Dozens of NZ Independent recording artists are caught up in the bankruptcy of the international fan based fund raising platform www.sellaband.com
Nelson based recording artist Aly Cook joined Sellaband.com in August 2009 after seeing [...]
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Musical theatre impresario Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is keen in buying London’s Abbey Road recording studios, made famous by the Beatles.
Lloyd Webber, whose stage musicals include Cats and Phantom of the Opera, belives it is vital that the studios are saved for the future of the music industry in the UK.
Debt-laden music company EMI is [...]
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If you think just Hollywood studios and talent agencies restructured by mergers. Now public relations companies are adopting it Hollywood.
Spin-meisters themselves, whose billings are under pressure and whose star clients’ lives are under ever-increasing scrutiny, are undergoing their own shake-out. Consequently, two different strategies are emerging.
The latest amalgamation being two of New York-basedInterpublic Group of [...]
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After 30 years, Simple Minds arive in New Zealand.
Simple Minds perform exclusively at Auckland’s Civic Theatre on Tuesday March 30th.
Line-up – Vocals: Jim Kerr Guitar/Keys: Charlie Burchill Drums: Mel Gaynor Bass: Eddie Duffy
New Zealand has a long-standing love affair with the music of Simple Minds. Their albums have sold multi-platinum copies here and they’ve toured [...]
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Posted in 2010 and onwards, Artists, Canterbury Event, Celebrity News, Charity, Charity Events, Concert Reviews, Crown Limousines NZ Ltd, Music, Tina Cross, Tribute shows on Feb 15th, 2010
When we arrived at Halswell, Quarry with Tim Beveridge, Tina Cross and Mark Dennison,Naomi Fergussion was still performing. It was a lovely evening- a bit chilly as the evening progressed.
I understand this was the first concert at this venue.
Tim Beveridge came to the stage with a huge applause from the crowd as he sang Have [...]
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New Zealand’s biggest combined jazz and blues event comes back with a bang in April, starting with a concert honouring one of jazz’s all-time greats.
Popular Australian brass musician James Morrison will open the New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival on April 5 with a Tribute to Louis Armstrong – an opening concert that is [...]
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With John Mayer is heading to New Zealand in April and local Visa debit, credit and prepaid cardholders can snap up advanced tickets.
The tour follows the release of John Mayer’s fourth studio album, Battle Studies, and will come to TSB Arena, Wellington and Vector Arena, Auckland on April 27 and 28, 2010.
For both shows, a [...]
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Posted in 2010 and onwards, Artists, Music on Feb 11th, 2010
Recorded live at the Wellington Town Hall on October the 23rd 2009, this was a collaboration of historic amplitude, an unforgettable experience that is now available to all. With orchestral arrangements by NZ Composer and Laureate recipient John Psathas, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra became an orchestral tsunami behind the already electrifying psychedelic blues quartet, [...]
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