Children's Hour: Not for the kids
Eighties band Children's Hour are no strangers to controversy. Frontman Chris Matthews talks to Scott Kara about reliving those good ol' days at this year's Laneway Festival.
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The band rotunda at Auckland's Albert Park will again host a selection of new and (kind of) older bands for the annual 95bFM Summer Series.
Mos Def rescheduled date released
Mos Def will now perform in Auckland on Tuesday February 1st.
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There were no mass armies of metallers, goths, or miserable-looking emos as in years previous.
Big Day Out 2011: Your comments, live from Mt Smart
Your social media comments and pictures from the biggest day in music, the Big Day Out.
Medical staff brace for a big day out
The Big Day Out is well stocked with plasters and paracetamol as St John staff prepare for 40,000 revellers.
<i>Big Day Out</i>: Iggy and the Stooges
If 30 years of heavy drug use didn't kill him and his boisterous, often self-harming stage antics didn't cripple him, one would think at the age of 63 the rock icon might at least slow down a notch.
<i>Laneway Festival</i>: Ladyhawke
Pip Brown's stomach is tying in knots thinking about her upcoming performance at Laneway. It will be her first gig at home since the Big Day Out of 2010, after which she collapsed and took herself to her childhood home to recuperate.
New party drug fears for festival
St John staff at this week's Big Day Out will be on alert for a new party drug that has emerged at other summer concerts.