News and Reviews
by nalex on Jun.28, 2009, under Article
AucklandMusic got some footage for the site from a poetry gig but there was no lighting so went out on the street to try and catch a busker and was lucky – my old friend Andy Blue was playing and I had my midrange camera on me – filming this on Queen Street Saturday 27th June 2009. Also captured a full dynamite 25 minute Andy Blue concert soon to be available for contributions to the artist on this site.
Review
Tama Ma
featuring
Taane Mete and Tairoa Royal.
Tama Ma is a dance journey of two men from birth through live into manhood.
It is an extraordinary collaboration of some of New Zealand’s most significant artists. The choreographies in the show are (for each part) by Tairoa Royal, Tairoa Royal with Taane Mete and Mark Summerville, Douglas Wright and Michael Parmenter and by Tairoa Royal and Taane Mete.
Tama Ma – is a potent threaded fabric of New Zealand dance from two physical geniuses. These Taane Mete and Tai Royal choreographies flawlessly expose extreme artfulness. Tama Ma is a work of conceptual magnitude, with a little humour to carry something far more gritty and spectacular. These two have extraordinary interpretive power – most vividly displayed in the forth part Hand to Hand, exploring duality and conflict in the selves we wear.
Dance this good is music for the eyes.
If you went to the Cause Celeb/The Box Reunion – love to hear about it. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. Freakish circumstances, won’t go into any detail.
Our best wishes and sad thoughts for the entire Michael Jackson clan, and we see the industry quickly swinging back into profitability as demand for his music rises meteorically. People are just starting to notice how dark his lyrics are as they really listen to his songs. As much as his facial surgery and court deals and admissions went – it did not change his music from being rather good. His Auckland concert was admittedly one of the superior concerts I have attended, but his real value as an artist was his music, how he sang it and made it realistically romantic to so many while grabbing at his crotch and wailing in high falsetto about being in the closet. As the world’s most un/successful bisexual, depending upon how you view things, one fact remains – he exacted a difference upon the world in a way that very few individuals have – all his excess seems somehow “deserv-ed”. It is sad that he died before he was to perform his swan-song concerts in London. The three hundred million pounds of disposable income may even have an effect on London’s economy.
Dylexia Song by Don McGlashen
by nalex on Jun.13, 2009, under Article
The Closer I Get, the Bigger You Look
by Don McGlashen in support of the Dyslexia Foundation of NZ
The Auckland Hikoi
by nalex on Jun.05, 2009, under Article
Auckland’s main street was covered with Maori performers and the music of Haka in late May.
Original video
by nalex on May.16, 2009, under Video
The first AucklandMusic.com original video has been posted. History in the making. Without further ado, we present our band of the moment:
Playlists
by nalex on May.16, 2009, under Playlist
AucklandMusic.com has added playlists under the video section of the site.
These playlists collections of the most significant videos and artists from New Zealand but the first playlist is our own current Auckland original video section.
Stainless Heart
by nalex on May.13, 2009, under Band
Stainless Heart are a two piece Auckland band – Sunny and Caleb sing and play drum/lead guitar.
AucklandMusic Video All my friends
