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Four decades after Split Enz released their most commercially successful album True Colours, we speak to the artists chosen to give those famed tunes a new lease of life, and piece together what has kept the legendary Kiwi band an inspiration for musos of all persuasions on both sides of the Tasman. True Colours was the album that broke the shackles of progressive, left field art rock for Split Enz and hurtled them firmly into the mainstream. From the one-two punch of Shark Attack’s lunati...

The Beths, Chelsea Jade, Shihad Cover Split Enz On ‘True Colours, New Colours Collection Chris Cudby / Image: The Beths / Photo credit: Mason Fairey / Friday 12th February, 2021 9:04AM    Split Enzs canonical 1980 studio album True Colours, a bevvy of Australasian talents have recorded fresh takes on the Finn Brothers multi-platinum opus on  True Colours, New Colours. Aotearoa artists reimagining the records classic tunes include power-pop champs The Beths putting their own amp...

Music Plus Fifty years is a long time to do anything – if you want to spend that length of time on something you need to start young. Luckily, Shona Laing did. Now a new exhibition in Waihi is celebrating her 50 year career in music. Back in the early seventies New Zealanders watched television in black and white. The full switch to colour didnt come till 1975. And everyone watched the same thing. There was only one channel until 1974. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, an est...

Rotoruas Jack Grace gets call up for Howard Morrison Quartet Take Two tour 18 Jan, 2021 07:00 PM 4 minutes to read The Howard Morrison Quartet Take Two (from left) Russell Harrison, Chris Powley, Jack Grace and Howie Morrison Junior. Photo / Supplied The Howard Morrison Quartet Take Two (from left) Russell Harrison, Chris Powley, Jack Grace and Howie Morrison Junior. Photo / Supplied Rotorua Daily Post By: Kelly Makiha Doing justice to performing songs by the legendary Howard Morrison Quartet i...

“We are taking over the street and filling it with random joy,” he said. “We’ve had such excellent engagement from the local businesses that we hope it becomes an annual event.” STACY SQUIRES/STUFF/Stuff Hundreds of people packed Christchurch’s New Regent St on Saturday for to watch circus performers, opera singers, an orchestra and musicians performing songs by Split Enz to launch the Bread and Circus Backyard Buskers’ Festival. The street was perfectly positioned to host for ...

Gigs are back

JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF Circus performer Olivia Watts loves the hula hoop, and will be bringing her expertise to Christchurchs Bread & Circus – Backyard Buskers Festival this weekend. Circus stars, opera singers and a brass band will occupy New Regent St in a musical extravaganza to officially launch the Bread & Circus – Backyard Buskers Festival in Christchurch this weekend. Buskers will take to the streets on Friday morning at three sites across the city centre, while indoor shows for t...

Tim Ross partners with National Gallery of Australia to explore artistic inspiration Tim Ross’ Constant is available on the National Gallery of Australia’s website. CANBERRA .- Design enthusiast Tim Ross’ passion for art was seeded by a book gifted to his mother before he was even born – a publication which is now the inspiration behind a new podcast series on the influence of art in our lives, developed in partnership with the National Gallery of Australia. Constant is a five-part series t...

© Paul Smith—Featureflash/Shutterstock.com Born in London and raised in working-class neighborhoods by a single mother, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins showed musical talent early in life, entertaining friends and family by singing current hits and learning to play the guitar and clarinet. In her teens, emulating Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and other soul singers, she developed her vocal depth and power. She studied at a high school for the performing arts, and, soon after graduating in 2006, she ...

One-hundred-and-fifty-four people from a variety of sectors including education, sport, health, and science have been honoured. Dave Dobbyn, the hitmaker behind decades worth of classic New Zealand music, spent Tuesday night revving up the young crowd of Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne. This morning, he’s been named a knight companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The 63-year-old musician played to a packed crowd, with festival-goers lining the hills and filling the moshpit to see him per...