“The Legends” Gray Bartlett with Jodi Vaughan and Brendan Dugan, together with Eddie Low, were together again at the Turner Centre in Keri Keri New Zealand on November 4th 2017. This sensational group have played to more than 500,000 people in New Zealand over something like twelve years.
Tommy Emmanuel, what a treat: This astounding acoustic guitar legend returned to New Zealand for four concerts during September 2017. How privileged I was to attend all four concerts, not only to take some extraordinary photos and video but to also spend some valuable time to get to know and understand what makes this man […]
Auckland Jazz and Blues club excelled themselves on Tuesday June 13th 2017. Their venue at the RSA in Pt Chevalier Auckland hosted a true New Zealand Icon Midge Marsden and his blues band. Unfortunately I had never seen Midge live on stage in the early days and last night realized just what I had missed […]
Singer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer. Here is a brief article written by Glyn Tucker, a great friend and enthusiastic music lover and entertainer. I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist, and by the mid seventies had quit playing gigs and started a professional recording studio in Auckland. It became well-known over the next 21 years as Mandrill Recording Studios….During […]
One thing about concert photography that is vital is NO FLASH. This presents some interesting challenges to budding concert photographers and when I started I had no idea. My interest started in the days of film and all I could do was buy a high speed film as I knew the powers to be would […]
I have had the opportunity of taking some photos of my good friend Larry Killip. Larry is a fantastic musician, a song writer, guitarist, singer and in addition a recording engineer (and by the way a terrific photographer himself).. I will talk more about Larry later on but how I got to know him was […]
THAT SOUND There has already been heaps written and published about Hank Marvin. Based in Perth Western Australia for the last thirty odd years and a lifetime of smash hits we just thought our readers may be interested in some of the great articles published about Hank. The following snippet can wet your appetite for […]
The forthcoming Radio Hauraki Reunion December 2016 is the 50th Reunion of Radio Hauraki in New Zealand. I was lucky to be a small part of this amazing history in 1966. Four young New Zealanders, the eldest only 27 years old at the time took on the New Zealand Government and established a Pirate Radio […]
Nelson was the city to host the two day Snapfest event on Friday 16th September 2016. The attraction for me was the Australian band “Mental as Anything” featuring Martin Cilia whom I have been following some time. Martin is a well established guitarist who is known for his ability throughout the world.
A small review on Leo Sayer and Lulu, by Glyn Tucker On a miserable wet Sunday night in Auckland, on 26th June, 2016 at Civic Theatre in Auckland, I went along to see a couple of singers from a bygone era perform a clutch of old songs for a mostly middle-aged audience. One of the […]
