Past Shows 2011

Fiona Pears - Music With Passion 19 February, @ 7.30pm Doors Open: One hour prior Show Starts: 7.30pm Interval: 20 minutes Approx Finish Time: 10.00pm

Violinist and Composer Fiona Pears, together with an incredible ten-piece ensemble, will perform for one night only on the 19th February 2011.

Fiona and her group, plus special guests, will perform music ranging from hot, sizzling Gypsy favourites, beautiful soulful classical and jazz ballads right through to Fiona's latest passionate compositions.

Fiona has been performing internationally over the last seven years. Some of her most exciting memories are performing at the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in Soho, London and performing her own compositions with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Fiona has released two DVDs and four CDs to date. She is about to start recording her fifth studio album due for release at the start of 2011.

See more at Fiona's website

Lisa Williams – Voices From Beyond 16 February, @ 7.00pm Show Starts 7pm Finishes 9pm

Ever wonder what happens when you die? Do you yearn to hear from someone who recently passed?

Join TV’s top medium and clairvoyant Lisa Williams as she describes the transition into the spirit world. Lisa returns to New Zealand after a sold out national tour in 2009.

Sharing her gift of communication with spirits from the ‘Other Side’, Lisa will reveal her knowledge about the ways we connect with and understand the messages our loved ones are trying to convey to us.

Like her current show on Vibe Channel, she will demonstrate her astonishing mediumship abilities by performing live readings with members of the audience.

Presented by: Adrian Bohm, Mills Entertainment

Dame Kiri in Concert 12 February, @ 7.30pm Doors open 7pm There is a lockout on this event Interval (20minutes) Finish 10.30pm

One of the world’s most beloved opera singers, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa graces the Isaac Theatre Royal stage on the 12th February in a special one night only performance.

Famous for her vocal beauty combined with natural serenity, legendary soprano Dame Kiri has performed with some of the most renowned orchestral ensembles to sold out arenas the world over during her glittering international career.

In this special concert, Dame Kiri is joined by two very talented young singers and accompanied by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Brian Castles-Onion. The programme for this unique Christchurch performance includes operatic and classical favourites together with a number of the arias made famous by Dame Kiri herself.

Dame Kiri in Concert - presented by Southern Opera, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation and proudly supported by Deutsche Bank.

Dame Kiri in Concert is an event not to be missed.

Lloyd Cole Small Ensemble 4 February, @ 8.30pm Show Starts: 8.30pm

Lloyd Cole and band to play five NZ shows in February

Christmas comes early for Lloyd Cole fans with news that he is bringing his band to New Zealand for the first time.

UK legend Lloyd Cole brings his playing partners Matt Cullen and Mark Schwaber to New Zealand for five concerts in early February.

The Lloyd Cole Small Ensemble head to New Zealand after a string of critically heralded shows this year around Europe.

Cole and band will play two enticing sets for fans, with songs stretching back to early Lloyd Cole and the Commotions albums like Rattlesnakes and Easy Pieces, right through to this year’s acclaimed release, Broken Record. Songs like Lost Weekend, Perfect Skin, Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken, Jennifer She Said, and Like Lovers Do have helped Lloyd Cole gain five Top 20 UK albums, and a place in the hearts of fans wordwide.

Pre-sale tickets are on sale now for 'My Ticketek' members. General public sales begin Monday December 20th.

Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet Tour 7 January, @ 7.30pm Show Starts: 7.30pm Approx Finish Time: 12.00pm

Presented by: Bench Music, Juice TV. RDU and the Groove Guide

PUBLIC ENEMY TO INVADE NEW ZEALAND WITH FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET TOUR

With support from Scalper and Ghost

Public Enemy are coming to New Zealand in January to perform their semina l“Fear of the Black Planet” album on its 20th anniversary.

Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, DJ Lord, the S1W1s and a SUPER NASTY FUNK BAND will play the entire album and Public Enemy classics at two exclusive shows.

Public Enemy will clearly demonstrate on multiple levels exactly why they are the most important group in the history of hip hop.

Exploding out of Long Island, New York in the early 1980s, their firebrand lyrical assault, the Bomb Squad’s innovative production techniques, and their unmistakeable live performances give them a formidable reputation. They terrify the establishment, and have continued to blaze a trail over a twenty year period up until the present day.

Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Public Enemy 44th on its list of "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and today they are more autonomous and as determined as ever, with no signs of slowing down.

Few hip-hop albums had the impact of Public Enemy’s 1990 Top 10 smash “Fear of a Black Planet.” It struck a chord with black and white alike, city dwellers and suburbanites, while spawning No. 1 singles that illustrated the yin and yang of the group . Flavor Flav’s humour  and Chuck D’s rabble-rousing political consciousness is all done in the best tradition of black funk music.

Public Enemy will deliver more than hype and perform two limited capacity shows in New Zealand.

See more at Public Enemy's website