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Otago Daily Times
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Marlon Williams concert for Dunedin
Marlon Williams will tour next month in support of his new album Te Whare Tīwekaweka. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Much-loved New Zealand musician Marlon Williams will tour the country next month in support of his first Maori language album Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Williams will visit 11 centres around the country during his tour, with his Dunedin show at the Regent Theatre on Thursday, June 26, at 7.30pm. Supported by longtime touring band The Yarra Benders, co-producer Mark Perkins (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui), the He Waka Kōtuia singers and featuring a collaboration with Lorde, the album traverses William's familiar folk-country-bluegrass territory, pop and the rhythms of Māori music. The tour will feature Williams performing with The Yarra Benders, along with special appearances from some of the album's collaborators, and with opening act Kommi (Kāi Tahu, Te-Āti-Awa). @
NZ Herald
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Events in Waikato: NZ Highwaymen, basketball and netball part of event calendar
The Boomers will take on the Tall Blacks whilst the Opals will go up against the 2degrees Tall Ferns. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● Marlon Williams - Te Whare Tīwekaweka tour, May 16, 8pm at Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton Performing with his long-time band The Yarra Benders as well as some special appearances from some of the album's collaborators, Marlon Williams will bring Te Whare Tīwekaweka to life. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● Waipā Home & Leisure Show, May 16-18, 9.30am at Mighty River Domain, Karapiro The Waipā Home & Leisure Show is back for its second year. Discover the latest home and lifestyle trends and get expert advice from passionate local businesses and suppliers. Tickets at the door. ● Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest 2025, May 17, 10am at Hamilton Central Library, Garden Pl This year's market features 60 stallholders from all around the country. Following the market, there is the annual Zinefest after party at Mesoverse, featuring live music and the annual Best of the Fest awards. Free event. ● Honour the Crown dance performance, May 17, 7pm at Clarence St Theatre Off the back of a successful 2024 Europe Tour, The Royal Family Dance Crew are touring New Zealand. The crew previously performed at American Idol, the Grammys, and Super Bowl Halftime Shows. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● ANZ Premiership Magic vs Steel, May 19, 7.30pm at Globox Arena, Hamilton See your local netball team, Avis Magic, as they take on the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in Round 2 of the 2025 ANZ Premiership. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● NZ Highwaymen in concert, May 23, 7.30pm at Claudelands Event Centre, Hamilton The NZ Highwaymen, Brendan Dugan, Gray Bartlett, Dennis Marsh and Frankie Stevens are on the road again and coming to Hamilton. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● Super Rugby: Chiefs vs Moana Pasifika, May 24, 7.05pm at FMG Stadium Waikato The Gallagher Chiefs are ready to take on Moana Pasifika in a final regular home game of the regular season. Tickets online via ● ANZ Premiership Magic vs Tactix, May 25, 4pm at Globox Arena, Hamilton The Avis Magic take on the VIP Frames & Trusses Tactix in Round 3 of the 2025 ANZ Premiership. Tickets online via Ticketek. ● NZNBL: Tauranga Whai vs Franklin Bulls, May 29, 7pm at Globox Arena, Hamilton There are currently 11 teams vying for the top spot in the NZ National Basketball League. At the end of May, the Bulls are playing the Whai in Hamilton. Tickets online via Ticketek.
RNZ News
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Director Ursula Grace Williams on the making of Marlon Williams: Nga Ao E Rua
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Grace Williams doesn't whakapapa Māori, but says her Sāmoan roots give her insight into the loss of an ancestral language - and that made her deeply invested in Marlon's journey. Photo: David St George The documentary, Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds , follows Marlon Williams (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) over four years as he reconnects with his whakapapa, embraces te reo Māori and writes and records his first full album in te reo, Te Whare Tīwekaweka . Tony Stamp speaks with Ursula Grace Williams, the director of the new feature documentary, about how it came to be, what it took to make, and what it means to her. See the trailer for the Documentary here:
RNZ News
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
NZ Live: 20 Years of NZ Live
Coming to you live from the famed Studio B in our Auckland office, we kick off our special anniversary series. To mark the occasion, we've asking listeners to get in touch telling us the one Kiwi artist they'd love to see perform live. One name appeared over and over again - Marlon Williams. Last month he released his highly anticipated Māori language album 'Te Whare Tīwekaweka'. The album was accompanied by the documentary 'Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds'. It's a pleasure to welcome Marlon and our live audience to the Auckland studio! Marlon Williams performing live in RNZ Studio B as part of a series of intimate acoustic concerts celebrating 20 yeras of RNZ's NZ Live music sessions. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
The Spinoff
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
Review: Marlon Williams finds home in Ngā Ao E Rua
Alex Casey reviews a new local music documentary four years in the making. One of the many crack-up conversations in Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds happens when the musician visits his mum in Lake Kaniere. They are heading out on a walk in the infamous wild West Coast weather, and Williams has forgotten his raincoat. 'Hopeless,' his mum jibes from the driver's seat. 'You haven't got enough clothes on, no wonder you always get sick.' Williams stays silent. 'So,' Mum moves on. 'When are you going to Haast to record your waiata album?' It's a moment that symbolises so much of what the documentary is about – the reality of someone holding many different identities at once, including being both a petulant teenager getting growled by his mum and an award-winning, globe-trotting musician on the cusp of making his first album entirely in te reo Māori. 'Different parts of me, I guess,' Williams reflects when visiting his marae in Tōrere, soon adding 'uncle' to that growing list of roles. The first feature length documentary by director Ursula Grace Williams (STILL HERE, Zealandia), Ngā Ao E Rua follows Marlon Williams (no relation) around the country and the world for a whopping four-year journey. It's not only the origin story of his new album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, but a deeply personal story of reconnection with whakapapa and language. 'It's a sensitive project but I'm being open about it and the mistakes I'm making,' he says. You might expect a portrait of a solo musician undertaking the biggest challenge of his life to plumb the dead serious depths of a tortured lone genius, but both the documentary and its subject seem totally disinterested in any kind of moody myth-making. Instead, Williams appears deeply normal – playing board games and basketball with his buddies, yakking about his gastrointestinal issues and psoriasis, and struggling for an exceptionally long time to use a corkscrew. We do get hazy sequences of touring and the toll it takes, but the film is largely rooted on home soil. Given the director's award-winning back catalogue exploring the complexity and beauty of life in regional Aotearoa, it's no surprise that every location is shot more beautifully than the last. The aquamarine water of Ōhinehou shimmers against the looming jagged hills, the lush forests around the West Coast heave with mist, and the camera basically smirks whenever it cuts from the blue open skies of Aotearoa to the stinky smog of London or LA. The film is especially moving when it travels up north with Williams and his dad to Tōrere, where little cousins run around at sunset, the whānau stack wood and watch fireworks, and he performs 'Aua Atu Rā' on the marae ātea. Williams talks frankly throughout about his own shifting relationship with te reo Māori, and the responsibility he feels to these future generations. Collaborator Kommi Tamati-Elliffe explains that pressure plainly after one writing session: 'these waiata, these songs, will be passed on forever.' Those waiata are weaved through the documentary with ease, wrapping the viewer up in the same beautiful cosy blanket that we're seeing crafted in front of our eyes. There is a brief sequence that lets a necessary chill in, when Kommi talks about teaching against a backdrop of controversy, and how 'being Māori means to be culturally taxed.' Media clips from Don Brash and co highlight this ongoing opposition. 'You cannot go to a playcentre in the country now without learning te reo, even without a brown face for miles,' spits Brash. 'For me, it is not of value.' It is a shocking and ugly sentiment that rips through the gentle vibe of the movie like a Gaudi toenail (if you know, you know). But it also serves as a crucial reminder of the wider political context in which this casually revolutionary creative project is taking place. Don't be fooled by the light touch of the filmmaker, or Williams goofing around with a punching bag: this is a brave, essential and joyous film that couldn't have arrived at a better time. Much more than another music documentary, it feels like quietly witnessing a piece of history.
