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Subset BCLocal band playing “dark groove, cinematic bass”. Smash Palace, Saturday (8pm) $5. Hobnail Blue Sky Songs TourClassic celtic country folk performed live. Thursday, April 19, Dome Room, (8-10.30pm). Tickets $20 plus booking fee from...

Glittering line-up for Rhythm and Vines

Poised with notepad and sensible parka (it looked like rain) at the edge of the Rhythm and Vines moshpit two seasons ago a reporter won the approval of one festival-goer. The party person stopped in his tracks, clapped the scribe on his shoulder and...

All the elements

Reports of major flooding, weather warnings and watches — whose bright idea was it to continue with our planned trip?Mine of course, despite learning just before going, of “horrible” conditions beyond Matawai. In part it was too late to...

Life in lockdown for local artist

Nikau Gabrielle Hindin (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa) is an artist based in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay who, just as New Zealand went into isolation, learned she had received the 2020 $10,000 Dame Doreen’s Gift from the Blumhardt Foundation. Hindin, who is...

If this ain't the blues

NOT many musicians rock a guitar that is part swordfish but Gisborne Blues and Roots festival guest Grant Haua does. The body of his cigar box guitar is a cigar box but the neck is all broadbill.“It’s still a bit rough,” he says. “The sword...

A school in good heart

A career first as a science teacher then as principal of Gisborne Boys’ High School has never felt like a job for Greg Mackle because he always had a passion for it.“It just so happened that I decided early on that I really loved teaching. I...

Ka Manu a winner for Ruha

Among winners announced for this year’s National Waiata Maori Music Awards was Te Kaha-based musician Rob Ruha’s song, Ka Manu. With the combined voices of Ruha, Maisey Rika, Horomona Horo, Majic Paora, Troy Kingi, Ria Hall, Seth Haapu and Bell...

From pop up to Pantaloonery

Big, bawdy, bumbling John Falstaff is so much at the heart of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor award-winning actor Katie Boyle is surprised the play isn’t named after him. Boyle plays not only the indelicate, impecunious knight...

Best in the business

Ainslie Allen brings her album tour to Gisborne

Exporting software: Gisbornites urged to join the 'gold rush'

Tech is booming and Projectworks chief executive Matt Hayter wants more Gisbornites to join the “gold rush”. Reporter Jack Marshall spoke with Matt about how he started programming and how others can start their careers. Forget Mark Zuckerberg...

Small trees for your tiny backyard

If you’re downsizing or have a small garden, a pint-sized tree might be the answer. There are plenty of options to plant as we move into the warmer months. Small space treesTrees are a vital part of the urban landscape. They provide valuable shade...

Satisfying detour for Marvel

by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterHow fleeting world domination can be. It can disappear in a snap. It has been two years since the last Marvel film, an unfathomable chasm for an ever-churning movie machine. In between, Marvel has made its most ambitious...

How to attract fairies to your garden

A whimsical world

What’s on in Gisborne

Dome Room, tomorrow, 8pm. Tickets $20 from The Aviary or the Dome. Savvy, G'zukers Goodtime Band, Barleycorn and a cast performance of Jerusalem for a Gisborne Cancer Society fundraiser. Unity Theatre, Saturday, 4pm. Tickets $20. Message Heather...

Sit Down in Front’s Rain single reigns on charts

Jacked up on lattes and Pilates, mums and dads go nuts in the mosh pit, Year 10 student Jackson Clarke performs a mean guitar lead break from atop a dead electricity substation transformer and Sit Down in Front’s singer Cory Newman sings about how...

Brian and Dolly Mitchell retiring after 26 years

The iconic Uawa Foodmarket is under new management with Brian and Dolly Mitchell retiring after 26 years. The Tolaga Bay couple reflect on their years at the shop with Shaan Te Kani. It’s the end of one era . . . and the beginning of another. For...

Sesquicentennial celebration

A sensual, cerebral, sesquicentennial celebration — such is the billing for a variety concert springing from the combined 75th birthdays of local musicians Catherine Macdonald and Gavin Maclean this Saturday, May 28. With a mixture of fun and...

Feelers frontman fronting in Gizzy

The frontman of acclaimed New Zealand band The Feelers, James Reid, will perform in Gisborne at Smash Palace on Wednesday, November 28. As the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for The Feelers, he has established himself as one of New Zealand’s...