
Album Review: Kasey Chambers <i>Little Bird</i>
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Australian country-rocker delivers deep feelings and a physical punch
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Australian country-rocker delivers deep feelings and a physical punch
Poetry usually arrives in the form of the traditional "slim volume" - elegant packages of 40-80 pages, like smoked salmon slices. By contrast, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry, all 624 pages of it, landed on my desk with a thump.
The albums, the sales and the hits ... a pop reign comes to an end
Who: Adam Lambert Where: Trusts Stadium When: Sunday night
Spanish star and ex-rugby rep Javier Bardem tells Michele Manelis why he's tackling something lighter.
Who: Kids of 88 and The Naked and Famous When and where: Saturday night, The Powerstation
What it lacks in emotion and inspiration, it makes up for in lovely scenery and chick flick escapism, writes Francesca Rudkin.
Heavy metal legends Metallica rocked Auckland's Vector Arena last night in the first of two sold out gigs.
Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Fraser stretches out on ambitious third outing.
Put on trial and found wanting.
She belies the conceit that readers only want primary characters who are likeable.
Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Ocker owls go beak to beak