This Week’s NZ Music Month Highlights

This Week’s NZ Music Month Highlights

This coming Thursday is the LAST day of NZ Music Month! It really has been a busy ol’ month.

Check out the Pacific Music Awards this Thursday at TelstraClear Pacific, Manukau City. It is an excellent chance to celebrate all that is great about the Pacific music this country is producing, and the show boasts live performances from artists such as Chong-Nee, Pacific Expressions, Annie Puletiuatoa, Ridlah, The Sitivis and PNC. The event is all ages and open to the public, so kids can pop along for a bit of red carpet action and to rub shoulders with some of New Zealand’s hottest Pacific talent!

Also on Thursday, Liam Finn returns to NZ to perform a solo set at the Kings Arms, Auckland highlighting his brand new material. There will be support by the Whipping Cats and you can check out the first taste of Finn’s upcoming album via his first single ‘Second Chance’.

AND! Paul McLaney, Age Pryor and Tim Guy pop up to Whangarei for a gig at The Butter Factory on Thursday night. It will be a great gig and a home coming gig for Paul who is originally from up there and his Mum even works at Whangarei Intermediate School!

Check out the Singer Songwriters Night in New Plymouth tomorrow night. It is an intimate candle lit night of live music featuring the best singer songwriters of the region. Doors at 7.30pm, Basement Bar.

On Wednesday, George FM holds the last show by Phil and Joe, with the Hallelujah Aotearoa Party at The Living Room, Ponsonby Road. From 6pm Phil and Joe do their show live, there's a special Bacardi cocktail, and Dick Johnson will be performing live with vocalist Boh Runga. Free to the public, or tune in on your way home. Once the show finishes DJs continue at The Living Room into the night.

Also on Wednesday Amanda O'Connor will be playing songs from her debut solo album Walk On at Manhattan Lounge, Oriental Parade, Wellington. The music video of the track Walk On has also be featuring throughout May on Wellington's Triangle Television.

This weekend the Smokefreerockquest event gets tougher with the East Coast heats at the Gisborne War Memorial Hall on Thursday, 4pm, (tickets $5 at the door), and the Waikato finals on Friday June 1 at Founders Theatre, ($20 at the door or from Ticket Direct). This year’s entries in the nationwide school bands event are at a record 650 and by October we’ll know who’ll be heading to the recording studio as the 2007 Smokefreerockquest national winner.

And heading across the ditch, the Brisbane based ‘NZ Music’ radio show is interviewing the Greenmatics who will also programme the show! Plus they are auctioning off a huge NZMM Pack with NZMM posters, badges and bags with CDs from Reb Fountain, Charlie Ash and Batrider and the Greenmatics. It also contains Badges from Minuit and Temper Tiger and a tee-shirt from Batrider and a couple of CDs and posters from Christchurch based Coral.

Check out the great discussions that have been happening through NZ Music Month on Radio NZ National that you can now listen to at your leisure! With topics such as Major Labels, The Indies, and Taking It Overseas they are well worth a listen. Simply pop along to www.radionz.co.nz to listen.

Check out www.nzmusicmonth.co.nz for a complete list of gigs.

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