Articles tagged with "Year in Review"
What happened in 2023? A belated retrospective
18/03/2024
At the end of 2023 I was feeling pensive and had some spare time thanks to the union movements of the 1900s, so I wrote a bunch of notes for an article summarizing the year. Things like which gigs were especially memorable, venues we'd lost, etc. Then I just didn't write it. But now I'm like actually it's kind of interesting to think back on the year. So... More
2020 was a year
19/12/2020
Did that just happen? It felt like one minute we were expulsing bodily fluids all over each other with wanton abandon, and the next we were avoiding the chip aisle until it was clear enough to maintain two metres of social distance. Yes, as you've probably read a thousand times, 2020 was a strange year, and music was not exempt from the strangeness. As viewed in purely financial... More
2019 was a year
31/12/2019
Here we stand, tentatively poised on the cusp of the roaring 20s, the perilous 10s behind us. If this year could be summed up in a single word it would be “change”. First, in May, was the news that New Zealand’s longest running artist run space None Gallery had been sold to a property developer who, as is typical for their ilk, had no interest in supporting the... More
