Concerts·Music Heilung โ A cyberpunk reimagining of ancient culture November 18, 2024 Gary Steel Hardened atheist GARY STEEL attends bizarre show by German/Nordic group Heilung and has โspiritualโ experience. Read More
Concerts·Music Tubular Bells โ Played just like the record, but different August 4, 2024 Gary Steel Mike Oldfieldโs former keyboardist/orchestrator makes a work of genius come alive one more time. Reviewed by GARY STEEL. Read More
Concerts·NZ music Live Shows From Way Back โ Wellington 1983 July 31, 2024 Gary Steel Gary Steel sniffs out another mouldering review from another not-so-present era. Wellington Performers Collective Fundraiser, Rock Theatre, Friday/Saturday 27/28 May 1983 Read More
Albums·Concerts·Music·Recordings The long-delayed release of a legendary 1968 performance by Zappa/The Mothers June 23, 2024 Gary Steel Frank Zappa and his Mothers would never be hotter than they were the week in 1968 when this gig was recorded. GARY STEEL takes Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music Perfect Pitch May 30, 2024 Gary Steel Twenty-five years ago GARY STEEL met up with wayward Kiwi electronic duo Pitch Black for a nice chat. A NZ Music Month special. Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·Recordings Mike Oldfield with bells on May 20, 2024 Gary Steel Mike Oldfieldโs Tubular Bells is over 50 years old but still sounds fresh. GARY STEEL chats with the man behind the upcoming Auckland performance Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings Aldous Harding: The lost interview May 2, 2024 Gary Steel Especially for New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL disinters a 10-year-old interview with Aldous Harding conducted at the time of her debut album. Read More
Albums·Concerts·Music·Recordings Icehouse, 40 years ago April 30, 2024 Gary Steel Itโs not often you get to interview Iva Davies (Icehouse) and Jo Camilleri (Jo Jo Zep) at the same time. GARY STEEL did way Read More
Concerts·Music·NZ music Live Shows From Way Back โ The Chills March 21, 2024 Gary Steel GARY STEEL revisits his short review of a Chills gig in a pub one dark night in Wellington back in 1984. Read More
Concerts·Music·NZ music Live Shows From Long Ago โ Radioactive Band Of The Year contest 1984 March 15, 2024 Gary Steel GARY STEEL listened to the good, the bad and the ugly in an โalternativeโ battle of the bands, 1984-style. Read More
Concerts·Music·Thought Piece Graham Nash โ Just a song before he goes (to Christchurch) March 2, 2024 Gary Steel GARY STEEL joined a venue full of grey power in a two-hour journey through 60 years of music history. Read More
Albums·Concerts·Interviews·Music·Recordings Graham Nash’s 60 Years Of Songs & Stories February 15, 2024 Gary Steel GARY STEEL chats with GRAHAM NASH about his halcyon 60 years in rock and his first-ever solo dates in New Zealand. Read More
Concerts·Music Diving Off The Deep End – NZ music from 40 years ago February 12, 2024 Gary Steel Forty years ago Wellington had its second Off The Deep End festival of experimental music. GARY STEEL and a few chums wrote about it. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music Horny hip-hop September 12, 2023 Gary Steel GARY STEEL asks big band maestro Rodger Fox some questions about his album/tour collaboration with conscious hip-hopper King Kapisi. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music Dire Straits 40 years ago April 26, 2023 Gary Steel GARY STEEL interviewed two members of Dire Straits both before and after their 1983 gig in a dangerously windy Wellington. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music Pussycats in leather: Skid Row land in Auckland February 7, 2023 Gary Steel Vulgar and abusive on stage, wild metal animals Skid Row purr in the presence of tabby-tamer GARY STEEL in this 1990 interview. Read More
Concerts·Interviews·Music·NZ music·Recordings The Witchdoctor Q&A – Sandy Mill May 26, 2022 Gary Steel Sandy Mill is one of Aotearoa's finest singers. To mark a rare performance in Auckland this weekend, we ask her some leading questions. Read More
Concerts·Music·NZ music·Thought Piece Live shows from long agoโฆ The Crocodiles/The Whizz Kids May 23, 2022 Gary Steel By late 1980 The Crocodiles lineup had splintered. GARY STEEL wrote this review of their Wellington gig at shortlived venue Billy D'Club. Read More
Concerts·Music·NZ music·Thought Piece Live shows from long agoโฆ Wolfgang/Coup D’Etat May 16, 2022 Gary Steel GARY STEEL's 1980 review of a gig by the Red Mole theatre troupe splinter band that was soon to become the hitmaking Coup D'Etat. Read More
Concerts·Music·NZ music·Thought Piece Live shows from long agoโฆ Mangaweka Viaduct Blues Band/The Gen May 11, 2022 Gary Steel GARY STEEL wrote this gig up for In Touch magazine way back in May 1980. It wasn't his (or their) finest hour. Read More