January 2024
Paul Mclaney
PAUL MCLANEY You’d be hard pressed to find a musician with a more diverse recorded output. In a career spanning over 20 years, Paul McLaney has released a remarkable body of work under various guises; the acoustic finger-style guitar and lush string arrangements of his solo work ‘EDIN’ ‘Diamond Side’; the ambient and experimental electronica of The Impending Adorations; prog-rock homage (Immram); the piano excursions of ‘The Old Traditions’ with Raashi Malik (“a highlight”); the Te Reo song settings of…
Find out more »Just Janie
Folk singer-songwriter Just Janie is coming to Ōtautahi/ Christchurch to perform her single release show 'Love Letter to Myself' at Space Academy! Come along for a night of dreamy music and musings. Drawing inspiration from the folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies, Janie’s music can be described as captivating and tender. Her lyrics offer an intimately raw window into her experiences of love and loss and what it means to write and perform her music. Her first…
Find out more »Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo NZ Tour
Strange News Touring and Meow are pleased to announce a nationwide tour showcasing the exceptional duets of Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo. The tour will see them begin in the brooding harbour of Lyttleton, before travelling up to the capital city’s finest venue, enjoying a Small Hall Session in a mystery location in the Hawkes Bay, and hitting a cabaret bar tucked away in Whitianga before completing the adventure in Auckland. When Mexican singer and filmmaker Amanda Acevedo and founding…
Find out more »February 2024
Monotones
Come see us play at the Darkroom on February the 1st with local legends Marsha and new comers Palo Alto
Find out more »Party Of Special Things To Do
Party of special things features Guylaine Cosseron, an animalistic singer exploring a 'total voice' where all components of vocal sound are part of musical expression, and Diemo Schwarz who is based in Paris and an active contributor both to improvised music practice using computers, and to emergent research on concatenative synthesis, a technique where tiny particles of sound are re-assembled algorithmically into new sonic realities. Their duo folds exploratory voice and fragmented electro-acoustics in strange communions. Performance featuring: Guylaine Cosseron…
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