Shake, Rattle Roll concert is about to hit Lower alive in an afternoon full of music as the Shake, Rattle #x2018;n #x2019; roll, bodgies and widgies, teddy boys, mods and rockers ruled! DJ Phil Costello from Classic Hits will be MC, guaranteeing a fun show for the whole family. groups and female singers of the 1950 #x2019;s 60 #x2019;s.
Avidiva feature Jennifer Hamilton, Hayley Stewart and Kelly Fisher hip-gyrating best. Brian has an enormous following never stops being popular #x2013; with all ages #x201D; he says. personality, and the music is so familiar to everyone.
#x201D; Headlining Shake, Rattle Roll is the popular Wellington act Ricky Boyd and the Boomshack Band. playing to packed audiences at the at the Botanic Gardens, Street Carnival, Ricky Boyd and the Boomshack Band are Playing authentic 50s rhythm and blues, the all-star line-up has been a draw card in itself. Included Fulton, saxophonist Chris Petrie and bandleader and drummer classics from Ray Charles to Carl Perkins.
pedals, loud amps, trends and fashion but instead rely on tone, musicality and passion". As the Shake, Rattle and Roll takes shape, concert goers are encouraged to transform for grabs so wear your best fifties outfit, pack a picnic and join in the fun at Riddiford Gardens, Queens Drive, Lower Hutt between 1pm and 4pm on Sunday 11 March. If wet, National’s bold new tax policy on charities shows a National government will support private giving and is serious about backing groups doing important work in our communities, says National Party Leader John Key.
“This policy will give a big boost to the giving tradition in New Zealand. We want to encourage that culture of giving.” See.
.. - The Te Matatini Kapa Kaha Festival was held at Arena Manawatu in Palmerston North from February 22-25.
Wellington photographer Karim Sahai caught the action for Scoop. East Coast Kapa Haka group Whangara-mai-Tawhiti was named the supreme winner of the festival. See.
.. - The Crown has lodged an appeal in the High Court in the case of a Romanian family who falsely represented the health status of a child to gain entry to New Zealand, says Immigration Minister David Cunliffe.
Mr Cunliffe says the decision of the Deportation Review Tribunal to allow the Vilceanu family to stay in New Zealand raises serious immigration and legal issues. See..
. - Paul Buchanan compares the 2005 and 2006 SIS Annual Reports: The major discrepancy is in the primary threat assessment. Rather than local jihadis, the 2006 report focuses on the activities of foreign intelligence organizations operating in New Zealand.
This begs some questions. What happened to those local jihadis? See.
.. - Activists up the Huntly smoke stack and on coal conveyor Huntly, New Zealand — Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team have scaled the 150 metre high smoke stack of one of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters, the Huntly coal-fired power station, and another four are now on top of the coal conveyor leading into the station.
Update: Greenpeace reports 9 arrested - all released without charge. See..
. - New Zealand soldiers serving in Timor-Leste have been meeting with village leaders, UN police and local authorities in an effort to decrease gang violence ahead of the country’s April elections. The meetings have been held during patrols into Santa Cruz and Taibese Village in South East Dili, both flash points for gang violence over the past few years.
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- After careful deliberation, on behalf of the New Zealand Media, Lyndon Hood writes: O, let's not be beastly to Helen / She's got more than enough on her plate. / For one thing, her creation: / The sustainable nation! / At least till two thousand and eight.
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.. - Fiji's announcement that 92 soldiers from its army will be deployed to Sinai and Sudan has caused a flurry of activity at the United Nations in New York.
But where exactly does the UN stand on post-coup Fiji? Selwyn Manning reports from New York. See.
.. - Scoop's Selwyn Manning crosses live from New York to Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey where they discuss: Why the new secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, angered ambassadors from 132 developing nations.
Can his reputation be restored? - “The Good Shepherd is a fictionalized version of history which is accurate in almost every incident. But because the filmmakers are liberated from trying to be faithful to the tiny details, they’ve come a lot closer in many ways to capturing some essential truths about this extraordinary period of intelligence, counterintelligence, betrayal and espionage during the Cold War …" See.
.. Scoop's Kevin List on Radio Active delivers his weekly New Zealand news roundup.
Items discussed today include: Taito Phillip Field; Phil Goff getting a hard time at the launch of Maire Leadbeater's book: Negligent Neighbour. Scoop's Kevin List joins KiwiFM's Wammo to deliver his weekly News Roundup… Items discussed: Taito Phillip Field, Helen Clark's state of the nation speech; John Key's response; and Hon Robson Becomes Contemptuous Robson. Scoop's Selwyn Manning and KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss how the United States has intensified its military presence in the Persian Gulf amidst expectation of regional conflict with Iran.
Will the USA strike first against the Atomic Ayatollahs?
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