Posts Tagged ‘new zealand’
As part of Blog4NZ week, I’m talking about my home country and how awesome it is, and trying to encourage all you metalheads to take your next vacation over here. Yesterday, I wrote about Metal things to do in Auckland, our biggest city. Today, I’m writing about a few of the things that make our [...]
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A team of NZ travel bloggers, wanting to help Christchurch and the rest of NZ recover from the earthquake, have declared March 21-23 Blog4NZ – where bloggers post 72 hours of articles on traveling in New Zealand. “It’s going to take a lot of love and a lot of cash to rebuild the city,” the [...]
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Today in “here’s what’s happening in MY country”, a massive earthquake shook Christchurch. Thank you to the couple of people who emailed me, but this is NOT close to Auckland, where I live. On Sept 4 last year, Christchurch was hit by a major earthquake, with over 700 aftershocks following, including some quite severe ones [...]
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CDH and I spent a typically rainy NZ summer’s weekend hanging out in Taupo – the giant crater lake in the centre of the north island, for those of you not in NZ – at the 10th Annual Taupo Joust. This is NZ’s biggest medieval festival, where jousters come from all over the world to [...]
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Everyone in the antipodes is going mental over the amount of insanely good music coming our way. Aus is getting Soundwave festival, with Iron Maiden, Saxon and Slayer, and We’re getting the Big Day Out with Rammstein, Deftones and Grinderman (yuss!) and No Sleep Til Auckland, with Megadeth, GWAR, NOFX and 3 Inches of Blood. [...]
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Steff Metal Reviews: Overkill – The Electric Age
Linking Horn: Links of the Irish
Steff Metal at First Thursdays
Review: Clinging to the Trees Of A Forest Fire – Visceral
Review: Spiral – The Traveller
