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The Spinoff
31-07-2025
- The Spinoff
Event noticeboard: A jug band, tiny boats and a baroness
The Spinoff's top picks of events from around the motu. Being an adult can be pretty boring and relentless. The to-do list never abates – the washing gets dirty, more dishes stack up and each week at work brings fresh new horrors. We get stuck in a holding pattern of trying to get through all this muck before rewarding ourselves with actually enjoying life. What has become increasingly apparent to me that the muck is ever-growing and untameable, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life polishing a turd. This weekend, I am boycotting chores, and will instead be trying to be happy. Elma Turner Library, 27 Halifax Street, Nelson 2pm Saturday, August 2 Free Writers speak publicly surprisingly often, and it is often surprising good, considering their chosen mode is technically silent. The Nelson Historical Society has asked the authors of a new beautiful book about one of New Zealand's important but overlooked botanical artists, Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris, to speak at the Elma Turner Library on Saturday. The book was over a decade in the making, and involved the authors Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson fossicking around historical archives to read her letters and diaries, and encounter the paintings in the flesh. For Leggott this is not so straight forward – she is blind. And so working together also included Field-Dodgson as a sort of visual audio translator. How did this process result in the shifting ground between biography and imagineered monograph that the book inhabits? Whangārei Music: Railway Pie & Emily Joy ONEONESIX, 116a Bank Street, Whangārei 7pm Friday, August 1 $20 Railway Pie is our only remaining 1960s jug band – yes, one of the instruments is a glass jug. Leigh Hear, and feel, a new and long-awaited body of work called 'The Lizard'. Tāmaki Makaurau Film: FAM: Film Festival Edition Karangahape Road, Auckland 2pm Saturday, August 2 Free K' Road will transform into a living, breathing cinema with films popping up in arcades, alleyways, shopfronts and all kinds of unexpected corners. A feature-length documentary on a retired cardiac surgeon from New Zealand leading 40 medical missions to Gaza and the West Bank to operate on children with heart disease. Hamilton Grey Street Gallery, 718 Grey Street, Hamilton East 9am – 3pm daily, until August 7 Free Peter Dornauf paints the Waikato and a series of symbolic motifs. Tauranga Timaru Theatre: Hello, Dolly! the Musical The Playhouse Drama League Inc, 198 Church St, Timaru Wednesday – Sunday evenings until August 9 $45-$55 A charming story about second chances at love. Ōtautahi Workshop: Bookmaking for Beginners Risingholme Learning, 22 Cholmondeley Ave, Christchurch 10am Saturday, August 2 $110 Learn to make lovely little books! Lyttelton Wunderbar, 14 Canterbury Street, Lyttelton 8pm Friday, August 1 $25-$30 Tāmaki Makaurau post-punks Ringlets are celebrating the release of their sophomore album 'The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)'. The Crown Hotel, 179 Rattray Street, Dunedin 8pm Friday, August 1 $10-$15 If you feel like some alt-indie-rock or alt-punk for your Friday evening. Cromwell To me it looks lovely and peaceful; the description, however, says 'as thrilling as the America's Cup.' Invercargill Exhibition: Play 4 He Waka Tuia, 2 Kelvin Street, Invercargill 10am – 5pm Monday – Friday, 11am – 2.30pm Saturday – Sunday until August 3 Free Nine vibrant and interactive zones to ignite creativity, imagination and joy in tamariki (and tamariki at heart). Escape the screens and stress of life. Arts Murihiku (Whare Taupua), 34 Forth Street, Invercargill 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Saturday until August 31 Free A powerful art exhibition showcasing creativity, strength and healing journeys.
1News
07-07-2025
- 1News
Full video: Nicola Willis makes FamilyBoost announcement
'It's good to be back!': Oasis reunion tour kicks off in Cardiff In front of an ecstatic capacity crowd, the band chose to resume live performances after 16 years with the apt Hello and its refrain of "it's good to be back".
Otago Daily Times
05-07-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Oasis reunite for nineties nostalgia trip
British rock band Oasis have reunited in Cardiff as the Gallagher brothers put more than 16 years of acrimony behind them to deliver a hit-packed set that took thousands of fans back to the optimism and swagger of the 1990s. The Manchester band defined the "Britpop" revival of guitar music, before tensions between Noel Gallagher, the band's main songwriter, and his younger brother, lead singer Liam, led to its split. The group walked onto the stage in the 74,500-capacity Principality Stadium and launched into "Hello," sounding as tight as at the height of their fame. Interaction with the audience was minimal during the two-hour performance. Interaction between the brothers was nonexistent until a very brief hug at the end. The crowd, largely comprising middle-aged fans revisiting their youth, sang along to hits including "Cigarettes & Alcohol", "Supersonic" and "Roll With It." At the end of "Live Forever," a picture of Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota, who was killed in a car accident on Thursday, was shown on the screens behind the band. Oasis ended with "Don't Look Back in Anger," "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," all pulled from their second album, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", the biggest-selling record in Britain in the 1990s. "Thank you for putting up with us over the years," Liam said. Adam Williams, 42, from Wrexham, North Wales, last saw the band in 2008. "They were probably better than they were then," he said. Oasis had announced the shows nearly a year ago, setting off a frenzy for tickets. "The thing that makes the Oasis reunion special is the thing that makes any reunion special: It has to be something that people really want and something that people thought they'd never see. And Oasis ticks both those boxes," music journalist Mark Sutherland told Reuters. Fans started to gather early outside the stadium, where official Adidas-Oasis football shirts were on sale for 85 pounds ($116). "They're more than a band, it's almost like a movement," said Matt Hobman, 48. "It's like a piece of Britishness." The Gallaghers were joined by original member Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, as well as Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Joey Waronker on stage. Many fans waited for hours in online queues to buy tickets last year, only to find prices had jumped when they eventually had a chance to get them. Britain's competition watchdog launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over the sale, including the use of "dynamic pricing" to hike the cost to fans at the last minute. "Are you having a good time?" Liam asked the crowd. "Was it worth the 40,000 pounds you paid for the ticket?" Oasis play one more show in Cardiff, before the tour moves to the Gallaghers' home city of Manchester. It continues in Britain and Ireland, followed by shows across North and South America, Asia and Australia.
