Waddell beat his arch rival Drysdale by three lengths in the single sculls race at the national championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday and is a red hot favourite to beat his rival in this weeks best-of-three Olympics race-off.
But last night Rowing NZ high performance manager Andrew Matheson threw a lifeline to three-time world champ Drysdale [...]
Your say: The Chemical Brothers live
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The Chemical BrothersWhere: Vector Arena, AucklandWhen: Thursday, February 28
Unless youre at an I.T. convention, two guys standing behindlaptops repeatedlyclicking mouse buttons and twiddling knobsshould not be this entertaining.
Sure, theres noarrogant axeman or a posturing lead singer, but [...]
Not only have they never played together, only one has any real inkling of how the project is likely to unfold. They have just five days to rehearse before the shows world premiere at the tiny North Island west coast surf settlement of Raglan, population 3500, next Saturday. Forty-eight hours later, Green Fire Islands will [...]
James Blunt’s concert at a sold-out Riviera Theatre on Friday might be the most thoroughly documented local event of 2008. Every time the lanky Brit walked near the lip of the stage, dozens of cameras were thrust into the air, fans snapping pictures as voraciously as paparazzi stalking Brad Pitt.So it was somewhat ironic when [...]
James Blunt’s concert at a sold-out Riviera Theatre on Friday might be the most thoroughly documented local event of 2008. Every time the lanky Brit walked near the lip of the stage, dozens of cameras were thrust into the air, fans snapping pictures. .So it was ironic when Blunt, whose 2004 debut “Back to Bedlam” [...]
Talking bout hey, now (hey, now), Iko Iko onday (oooh), Jock-a-mo-fee-no-a-na-nay, Jock-a-mo-fee-na-nay.
… the kind of songs that no one can remember the names of, but everyone knows the words to.
The singers are mostly middle-aged. They sit in a semicircle playing what look like toy guitars. Most of the tiny instruments are polished wood, but one [...]
SEOUL, South Korea - The oldest U.S. orchestra is using the power of music to pierce North Korea’s isolation, playing a historic concert in the communist nation as the two countries struggle to resolve a protracted standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.The New York Philharmonic will be the most prominent American cultural group to travel [...]
Backpackers plucked from a yacht which ran aground on the north Queensland coast have been offered free food, accommodation and trips after accusing the yacht operator of abandoning them.
Thirty-two frightened tourists and five crew from the yacht Romance were rescued by helicopter after the vessel ran aground on rocks on Hook Island in the Whitsundays [...]
Ifyou think getting up early is hard when youre a kid, try being an adult. Today is my first day of primary school in 15 years, and with no Mum in my flat to nag me from my bed, Ive overslept.
The nagging isnt completely missing, mind you: my flatmate asks if Im seriously wearing that [...]
Robert Doisneau’s iconic image of a couple stealing a kiss on a
Paris street immortalised the romantic reputation of France’s
capital, but a new British survey today revealed it as the bust-up
city of the world.
Over a third of Britons - 34 per cent - picked Paris as the city
most likely to cause them to argue on a [...]
