Watch Eb & Sparrow at The Wine Cellar
The 13th Floor gathered up their video gear and trekked on down to The Wine Cellar to catch up with Eb & Sparrow. The group is in the middle of a nationwide tour to promote their new album, Sun/Son. Watch as Marty Duda chats to Ebony Lamb and the band and then check out their […]
Watch Don McGlashan Give A Lesson In Kiwi Songwriting
Don McGlashan’s speech at this year’s APRA Silver Scroll Awards ceremony was the high point for many in attendance so we thought we’d share it with you here. Watch as Don demonstrates what makes Kiwi songwriting unique…inspiring and educational!
Watch The 13th Floor’s 2015 Silver Scroll Video Report
The 2015 APRA Silver Scroll Awards ceremony took place at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Thursday, September 17th. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda was there and files this report including interviews with the nominees and the winners including Mel Parsons, Kody Nielson, Anthonie Tonnon, Marlon Williams, and members of The Clean, The Swingers and Blam Blam […]
Luna – The Tuning Fork September 19, 2015 (Concert Review)
Luna finally made it to Auckland for their first-ever NZ show. The reunited 1990’s dream-poppers are led by New Zealand native Dean Wareham, and on this night also featured original bass player Justin Harwood who resides in Piha. Fazerdaze The crowd arrived early to The Tuning Fork on this Saturday night. Maybe it was to […]
Eb & Sparrow – The Wine Cellar (Concert Review)
It’s a dark and stormy night, and the line of people queuing for tickets winds right through the labyrinth that is the Wine Cellar. Inside, Port Chalmers resident and APRA Silver Scroll nominee Nadia Reid, transports the crowd with her hypnotic folk songs. The last song, the newest, is also the muscliest. In it, she […]
Hello Sailor’s 40th Anniversary Concert: A Tribute To Mr B – Powerstation (Concert Review)
The Powerstation was packed with fans and musicians alike, ready to pay tribute to the late Graham Brazier and the music he made with Hello Sailor. As Peter Urlich stated at the start of the evening, “We want to join everybody together and make this an unforgettable night.” Mission accomplished! The festivities began just after […]
Tuxedo – The Studio (Concert Review)
There was a touch of class on K Road Friday night as Tuxedo hit the Studio for the launch of Splore 2016. The side project of Grammy-nominated soul singer Mayer Hawthorne and Hip Hop producer Jake One, Tuxedo is the result of an exchange of 80’s boogie funk mixtapes in 2006. The two realised […]
Cats – Civic Theatre September
Andrew Lloyd Webber, it turns out, anticipated the World Wide Web and its greatest preoccupation. Following the criminally underrated Variations, and shortly before he lost the plot and decided that trains on rollerskates would make a compelling theme for a musical, Lloyd Webber recognised the world’s fascination with cats, and one of the West […]
Watch Ha The Unclear’s 13th Floor Video Session
Four-piece pop-rockers Ha The Unclear made the move from Dunedin to Auckland a few months ago. Now they are about to head back to their home town to kick off a 5-date nationwide tour beginning September 18th and finishing at Auckland’s Whammy Bar in October. The band stopped by The 13th Floor studios to talk […]
People Places Things
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams Flight Of The Conchords’ Jemaine Clement tries his hand as the lead in a romantic comedy set in New York…keeping his Kiwi accent intact. The romantic comedy is a peculiar beast. If done well, it feels easy and natural, but so often it fails thanks to a weak […]
Watch Ha The Unclear Perform at The 13th Floor
Here’s more exclusive music for you recorded at The 13th Floor studios. The band is Ha The Unclear…originally from Dunedin, now based in Auckland. They will perform tonight at the Portland Public House along with Dictaphone Blues before setting off for a nationwide tour later this month. We’ll have the entire video session ready soon, […]
Watch Electric Wire Hustle’s 13th Floor Video Session
Electric Wire Hustle have just released their new EP, Aeons. The duo consists of Mara TK and Taay Ninh and they have enlisted the assistance of Kimbra for their new single, Broken Sun. Mara TK stopped by The 13th Floor studios to chat with Marty Duda, show off their new line of infused gin and […]
Imagine Dragons – Vector Arena (Concert Review)
Imagine Dragons have been touring, almost continuously, for nearly seven years, Dan Reynolds told last night’s Vector Arena audience. They’ve only managed to record two albums in that time, but they have honed their live act into a tight, sharp and utterly superb performance. The evening began with a reasonable, but not especially inspiring, opening […]
A Place To Bury Strangers – Kings Arms (Concert Review)
Notoriously-loud Brooklyn-based trio A Place To Bury Strangers shook up Auckland’s Kings Arms with a mind bending set heavy on distortion and feedback…and fog. Monday night at the Kings Arms and the faithful have shown up early, eager to catch opening act, Thee Run Coves. The local rockers didn’t disappoint, getting the crowd worked up […]
Tift Merritt – The Tuning Fork (Concert Review)
Tift Merritt started her show a little shakily, with sound issues and a couple of false starts in the first few numbers. She handled them like a pro, however, quipping that the missing left channel in her keyboard in one song was akin to her dress which kept trying to fall off her left shoulder. […]
Watch Skyscraper Stan perform ‘Dancing On My Own Grave’ at The 13th Floor
Reviewer Steve McCabe was impressed with Skyscraper Stan’s performance at The Tuning Fork this past Saturday. Now you can see what all the fuss is about. Stan, and his cousin, Oskar Herbig, stopped by The 13th Floor studios to record a video session before their gig at The Tuning Fork. We’ll have the entire session […]
Holly Arrowsmith with Skyscraper Stan – The Tuning Fork (Concert Review)
A full bill at the Tuning Fork last night saw Tom Cunliffe, and then Skyscraper Stan, open for Holly Arrowsmith. Arrowsmith topped the bill, but she wasn’t the highlight of the show. Cunliffe kicked the evening off with a fairly rudimentary set of by-the-numbers folk numbers, one man and a guitar offering little new to […]
The Others Way Festival
Despite a cold, drizzling rain and an unexpected visit by the fire department, The Others Way Festival can definitely be chalked up as a success. Spread across seven venues along Auckland’s K-Road, it was easy to move around from show to show, the music was diverse and exciting and it sold out. I started my […]
Auckland International Cabaret Season: Opening Night (Concert Review)
The five-day Auckland International Cabaret Season kicked off last night with Tim Finn’s solo show, White Cloud and then a parade of seven female vocalists paying tribute to Billie Holiday inLady Sings The Blues. Tim Finn’s one man show…well, ok, two man…guitarist Brett Adams sat quietly in the corner playing along with Finn’s piano and […]
A Walk In The Woods
Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte & Emma Thompson 104 minutes/M – Offensive language and sexual references Bill Bryson – yes, THAT Bill Bryson of prolific popular travel writing fame – has retired and is about to settle into all that new found freedom allows. Personal family dramas are forcing him to take stock of himself […]