Poco Moto

You've got one week to get some presale tickets for this helluvan awesome gig at / Whammy Bar next Friday with and / Hopetoun Brown. I'm just going to post their awesome blurb, because it's so spot on:, but first, ticketing linkage as follows:

🔗https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/103000/Whammy-Bar-Pocket-Jazz-Festival.utr

Poco Moto sometimer Jess will greet you at the door!

Hopetoun Brown and Love Square bring special guests to Whammy for a unique night of rhythm, soul and jazz. African and Andean beats propel Love Square's sound while Hopetoun Brown bring the stomp and bass woodwind parp to a Friday night on K Road!

We're bringing all the horns! Ever the drummer has trombone. Come to think of it.... everyone's got a trombone now! There will be soulful blats, howls and parping shrieks from trumpets, every flavour of sax and a bass clarinet.

Nod to the peerless drumming of Alistair Deverick, frown-smile at the sound of Tim Stewart's honeyed tonsils, gape in wonder at the stratospheric brass from Finn Scholes before checking-in your soul at the international baggage carousel of Nick Atkinson's woodwind collection! It's finally happening for one night only! Love Square and Hopetoun Brown on the same bill ripping their hottest licks on and off, as Aldous Harding might say. Did you know she sang a few BVs on the second Hopetouns album? So did Marlon Williams! ...and that's not even the beginning of the name-dropping! This is going to be special almost-longest-night-of-the-year knees up.

It's been tough to find a date to get these talented fellows all in the same place on the same night. Tim Stewart's been playing on jets for Synthony in the Sky or killing festivals on-stage with Supergroove, Alistair Deverick and Nick Atkinson have been touring around the nations opulent theatres playing Bruce Sprinsteen hits and you'll hear Atkinson's tenor sax tone has reached a new dimension of fatness since woodsheding all the Clarence Clemons licks he could find. Finn Scholes has recorded three new Carnivorous Plant Society albums and tonight he'll be limbering up those muscular lips for his upcoming EP campaign.

On Sunday, I'll working at Bach Musica's Songs Of Destiny at Auckland Town Hall. These are beautiful concerts.🌻

It has been stated that “people should perform more Brahms”, and we answer this request with a stunning combination of choral works by Johannes Brahms.

José Aparicio, our guest conductor, is a native of Spain with an inspiring presence as a conductor and a musical style influenced by his experience in opera and orchestral ensembles across Europe and New Zealand. The beautiful Brahms repertoire in this concert will be complemented by the unique and seldom-performed Siegfried Idyll as well as the song cycle from Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo, performed by Anna Pierard.

🎫https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/songs-of-destiny

🎫 https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/songs-of-destiny

Most humbly: These are very good earplugs for people who love live music. 🎶🎵🎶 You probably don't know me in person, so you don't know what a nerd I am and how long it took to get these to be this awesome. I have seen enough gigs for 10 lifetimes, and I only wear these; I have had my own pair for 6 years this month.

They're reusable and easily washable, too.

https://pocomoto.co.nz/product/attenuators-best-value-earplugs-in-aotearoa/