Broods
Initially delayed from March due to scheduling conflicts, Nelson-born brother-sister pop duo Broods bring their Don't Feed the Pop Monster tour to Auckland's Town Hall tonight. The tour is off the back of their acclaimed third album of the same name, a shimmering pop record bursting with life and ideas. After two albums that felt constrained by major-label expectations, Pop Monster showcased the duo's true potential for intelligent, emotive, addictive songwriting, and innovative art-pop production. If previous tours are anything to go by, Broods throw one hell of a party, and it's clear the duo are having more fun than ever with this album; bring some comfortable dancing shoes.
Broods, Town Hall, tonight, 7:30pm
The Auckland Writers Festival:
As far as some of us are concerned – actually several thousand – there's only one show on in Auckland this weekend and it's the annual writers festival. A bit like TED Talks on steroids, the festival brings to town around 200 leading local and international writers, thinkers and artists to talk books. But it's so much more than super-sized book club sessions with more than 200 events: conversations, performances, lectures, presentations, workshops, book readings and launches and prize announcements designed to entertain, inform, provoke and inspire.
