Flying Loeb the stuff of rally legend

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On Friday, he lost his door. Yesterday, as Petter Solberg ruefully put it, Sebastien Loeb drove as if he’d lost his mind. The leader after day one of the New Zealand round of the World Rally Championship, Solberg couldn’t have said anything more meaningful at the end of Friday’s press conference. He warned that Loeb “would leave his brain in the service area and it will be a maximum attack … expect incredible times from him.” . . . → Read More: Flying Loeb the stuff of rally legend

Shear brilliance from Waikaretu wonder woman

She may be petite but Waikaretu’s Emily Welch is one tough and determined competitor. The 27-year-old beat 40 male shearers to take the senior runner-up title at the weekend’s 47th Golden Shears in Masterton, a feat never accomplished by a woman. “I went into the competition really well prepared. It was one of those competitions where everything just clicked. . . . → Read More: Shear brilliance from Waikaretu wonder woman

Concert Review – David Bowie, Wellington Feb 14 2004

On February 14th 2004 David Bowie played a concert at The Cake Tin in Wellington as part of his Reality Tour. I went. 9.00 pm, it’s starts persisting down – the storm that flooded the bottom half of the North Island had begun. There’s no big screen, but there’s a huge stage backdrop that is an enormous LCD screen and it’s awesome. It’s dark now, it’s raining, we all know the bands about to start playing and then we hear the opening notes of Rebel Rebel. . . . → Read More: Concert Review – David Bowie, Wellington Feb 14 2004

Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art

Dave Stewart’s been breaking the rules since he was a teenage punk rocker – waxing his hair bright yellow long before gel became de rigueur. You won’t find the Aucklander prancing around the stage any more with New Zealand’s first punk rock band Anti Music, but he’s still banging the keyboards. Only today, he does it from the confines of his ten by eight spare room, and the keyboards, while silent, are helping him make a noise all around the world. Stewart’s instrument of choice is the computer, four of them to be exact, and bit by byte he’s establishing himself as one of it’s leading exponents. . . . → Read More: Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art