Category: Events
Unofficially the best female rapper in Aotearoa, officially JessB is making waves in the music industry. She’s coming through, she’s bringing her girls with her and just like her, they’re fierce and they know what they want. Jess first started listening to hip-hop and rap when she was just a young one. She began writing […]
Love Me As I Am, as part of the Auckland Arts Festival, celebrates and honours the life and music of the legendary Mahinārangi Tocker – a woman who openly embraced difference and our diverse communities. We chat with Creative Director Tama Waipara about the influence Mahinārangi had on his life and the importance of honouring […]
Will Snapchat Dude Tom Sainsbury be the undoing of Paula Bennett? Or is his satirical take on National’s deputy taking Paula’s popularity to previously-unseen heights? The life of a creative talent in NZ can be a struggle. Talk to many actors, writers or dancers and most have a part-time if not a full-time day job […]
The same year that New Zealand legalised same-sex marriage, Macklemore’s Same Love was blasting from our car stereos, going off at gay bars and it was also most likely what you listened to with tears in your eyes as you cooked dinner on a Sunday evening. Macklemore, real name Ben Haggerty, released the track with […]
From top to bottom, express covers the top gay New Year options. Uretiti 30km south of Whangarei, just off State Highway 1 is a Dept of Conservation campsite at Uretiti. The camp has only limited facilities and is not exclusively gay. BUT – it is the party central for revelers between Christmas and New Year. […]
Oliver Hall runs through upcoming events and shows not already highlighted in express for this month. All Hail Laura Daniel – Queen of NZ Comedy If you not already obsessed with TV’s wittiest woman, then it’s officially time to get stalking! Laura is the only saving grace of TV3’s largely unfunny Jono & Ben, carrying dead weight […]
At Henderson’s Trust Stadium, legendary British Boyband Take That made their NZ debut with an intimate concert that offered every fan a VIP experience. Since the Internet changed the music industry – touring has become the key for acts to make big money. But talk in the industry is that the current vogue of production-heavy […]
Good Lorde! NZ’s Pop Princess uses an intimate venue to show fans how her live talents have blossomed. Like a true pro, Lorde appeared on the Powerstation’s stage within moments of the clock hitting 9.30pm. David Dallas had warmed up the crowd – he was one of a rotating cast of kiwi support acts who […]