Music Reviews & Interviews

28th September 2008
Urban cowboys The Klap took home the Midget guitar Of Glory as the Dux RoundUp Champions for 2008 with their intense live performance of alt-country polka genre-bending drinking music. Trumpets, one string slide guitars, accordians, banjo's and earthy vocals drew a huge crowd response and ultimately the judges votes...

30th September 2008
Pop Hits City are an eclectic pop-rock 5-piece based in the Garden City of Christchurch. Formed as a group of friends by former Bang! Bang! Eche! vocalist Ross Heath...

September 2008 - THE O'LOVELYS (NZ / London)
Deceptively moody artrock - tinkling piano lines and awkward rhythms both draw you into a Stereolab-like pop while distorted organ and guitars and Watson's opera-trained vocals are subversively dark and memorable...

27th September 2008 - c/o thebigcity.co.nz
Involving improvised sound-making from Californian duo Lucky Dragons. Great fun show with excellent crowd participation. The SOFA Gallery makes for an excellent venue, a big open space and whatnot, plus a good crowd...

23rd September - www.amplifier.co.nz Release Of The Week
Mulchzoid is the electronic extension of David Mulcahy, dark pop luminary of JPS Experience, Superette, Sexy Animals and Kimo / Eskimo fame. Exploring the premise of one microphone one computer and one bedroom Mulcahy has locked himself away and produced...

22nd September 2008
Winners of the 2008 Singapore Airlines Starfest Eddie and Cullen Kiesanowski played their first ever lunchtime concert...

20th September 2008 - c/o thebigcity.co.nz
Good show that. Great crowd celebrating the return of Wellington's Thought Creature and put on by Christchurch's own self-professed world's biggest..