A green lion with red mane, yellow crown and ferocious yellow eyes features in roots reggae band The Rude Boyz logo. Designed by drummer Patrick LeGeyt’s lead guitarist and fine arts student son Aaron, the logo epitomises the seven to eight piece...
WHEN my good mate Richard Ludlow asked my wife Raewyn and I if we would like to consider a trip to Scandinavia to stay at his son’s house in Copenhagen and use it as a base for travel to Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the rest of Denmark, we decided...
A history of Central School is the subject of a play to be performed by the school’s 430 students next week. Called Anei Matou (This is us), the dance/drama work is divided into various periods, from the 1872 opening of the original Central School...
My dad makes the world's best cheese scones. When I was young, we'd go to church on Sunday mornings and then gather with whānau or friends to share a roast lunch. On Sunday nights, Dad always made cheese scones for dinner. Here's my twist on his...
Staying the night at a penguin colony isn’t just for scientists. On Banks Peninsula you can view penguins and seals in their natural environment and even take part in a penguin monitoring programme, writes Julie Haines
Start spreading the news . . . a cabaret-style concert called New York Nights will be presented by local singers tomorrow night. Singers range from beginners to seasoned performers who want to try out new repertoire.“It’ll be a good mix,” says...
A joyous and eclectic outburst from the Gisborne Choral Society. St Andrew’s Church, Saturday, 2pm. Koha entry. Dress up in 70s costumes, and dance the night away to the music of the 70s. Prizes for best costumes. Dome Room, Saturday, 9pm. SOLD...
It may have been fate that brought friends and musicians Toko Mantis and Aidan Walters together to join local blues rock band Lazy Fifty this year. More than a decade ago the two joined forces to play with their first band and heavy metal group...
The Planets, Lady’s Face, Big Ben, and Tiger’s Eye are the titles of some of the artworks created on Gisborne Herald lithographic plates by brothers Alex and Benjamin Shanks during lockdown. The artworks were made by inking the plates and...
Blues-based, but not limited to 12 bar blues, is how blues guitarist Richard “Big Rich” Alexander once described his acoustic-guitar-based sound.“What excites me about the blues is there’s always room for improvisation,” he told the...
The wooden O, as Shakespeare describes London's Globe Theatre in Henry V, is locked down like the rest of us — but the shows go on, online. Beginning with Hamlet, The Globe is streaming a Shakespeare play for free every fortnight. Hamlet is on now...
April 10 is the centenary of New Zealand’s first prohibition referendum. Wynsley Wrigley looks at the closely-fought campaign. Fighting for God, Empire and Country must have been thirsty work as it was WW1 veterans who turned out to be the...
To help keep the Gisborne community theatre flame alive, Evolution Theatre Company is staging a 48-Hour Virtual Play Festival. Registrations for the festival close tonight, and at 7pm, entrants will be given the theme, prop and text that they must...
Simone Anderson's philosophy on eating is that you should enjoy it, and she doesn't believe in denying yourself treats or restricting entire food groups. Her recipes are fresh and healthy, and she loves to prepare light, beautiful meals. Known as the...
SALADS All Year Round is a collection of 100 delicious, fresh, generous salads and simple recipes for dressings. All the recipes are tested in the home kitchen and are quick to make and tasty to eat. The author, Makkie Mulder who lives in Holland, is...
LEMONS can be used in myriad beauty products for their delicious scent as well as their deodorising and disinfecting properties. But did you know you can use lemons at home to prepare your own beauty products? It’s time to hit the fruit bowl and...
‘Nan’ says she likes recipes that are very basic, quick and easy . . . and that the aroma when simmering the guavas for this sauce is just divine. Ingredients2 cups guava (halved — don’t forget tosnip the bottoms off)1 cup sugar1...
Now into its fourth year, Smash Palace’s annual showcase of new music from Gisborne and the East Coast can fairly be called a tradition. ExNE (East by North East) organiser and Smash Palace owner Darryl Monteith is not one to rest on his yannis...
He spent 14 years spearheading Auckland Town Hall’s pipe organ-rebuild project and now Dr John Wells is about to fulfil his long-held dream of presenting the world’s first organ recital in a woolshed. This might come as a surprise to organ-music...
When your mother is a wardrobe seamstress and your father a stage manager for the local musical theatre company, there is little choice but to know a thing or two about theatre. But Musical Theatre Gisborne's (MTG) newest director Peter Derby is not...
Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga director for regional services, Pam Bain, speaks to Gisborne Herald reporter Sophie Rishworth about her passions
The Dunedin Sound of indie pop music, Hamish Kilgour's psych-inflected guitar-pop tunes and Emily Riordan's mix of wistfulness and boundary-pushing musical textures is making its way to the Dome. Kilgour was a founding member of The Clean who are...
Theatre is a fickle way to make a living but among those who have no choice is singer/actor Chris Green. The touring performer has returned to Gisborne for not one but three different solo productions. Two of those productions are concerts. He is...
Trevor Gedye spent a working lifetime at Gisborne’s port, starting as a clerk and rising all the way to become secretary manager of the former Gisborne Harbour Board. He shared his memories with John Jones. The future of Gisborne’s port remains...
COULD James Milne’s song title Another Century be a take on British author LP Hartley’s bon mot, “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”?Because if there is one thing Milne (better known as Lawrence Arabia) does...
Artists from Otaki to Tolaga Bay bring their work to a new exhibition showing this weekend at Mokotahi Hall. Mahia2020 is a two-day show that has been a year in the making. The organisers all have ties to Wairoa and say the show is for emerging and...
BRITISH rapper, actor and comedian Michael Dapaah, best known for portraying fictional grime MC Big Shaq, has been announced among other top acts for the Rhythm and Vines festival lineup. Grime is a music genre evolved from UK electronic music styles...
Wynsley Wrigley previews the Beyond Duty exhibition honouring 36 diplomats recognised by Israel’s Holocaust museum Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations. The official title is awarded on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to...
Ruffles, godets, bells, sequins, rhinestones, flares and frills are only a fraction of the exotica Musical Theatre Gisborne’s costume-makers have spent more than 700 hours on for the company’s upcoming extravaganza, Mamma Mia. Because the musical...
The delightful aroma of these beauties wafting out of the oven will get your taste buds firing, for sure. For a brilliant make-ahead hack, you can make these up until the rolls are formed and in their tin and then cover them and put them in the...
Gisborne Harbourmaster Peter Buell has much to celebrate this month in both work and life. He talks to The Gisborne Herald about both
Mrs Nora Walker should have been the first woman elected to a public position in Gisborne, in 1915, but the council and Mayor of the day got in her way. The honour fell instead to Mrs Agnes Scott, who became a member of the Gisborne Hospital Board...