Mixtape: Dirty Stanky Funky Vol. 1

Dirty Stanky Funky was a party we recently threw at the excellent Golden Dawn 'Tavern Of Power' on Auckland's Ponsonby Rd recently. We gave away a bunch of mixtapes on the night, but have decided to make a link available for your streaming (dis)pleasure. Click it. But get ready to get dirty, to get stanky, and most of all, to get funky - because this is definitely NOT for the faint-hearted...

Live: NORMAN JAY MBE

I don't usually promote gigs I'm not actually playing on on this blog, but for this guy, I'll make an exception.

"The DJs' DJ", or "The People's DJ", or the founder of the Good Times Sound System at the Notting Hill Carnival, or Mr Norman Jay MBE is visiting out shores for the Friends and Whanau Festival at Silo Park this Auckland Anniversary Weekend - and I reckon you need to be there.

Click here for more info.

Disclaimer: yes, OK, I was involved in bringing Norman to NZ some years ago. My business partner and fellow Trusted Friend, Murry Sweetpants and I had the great fortune to spend some time with him, and he's a diamond geezer. Despite being a Spurs fan.

Live: SHIP SHAPE #1

Special Needs Agency presents
SHIP SHAPE
With Bevan Keys
Support from Sweetpants and Nyntee
Doors 7pm, Sat 31 Jan
The Cloud, Queens Wharf, Auckland
www.iticket.co.nz

Live: NZ Soul All Dayer Mt Maunganui 2015

Live: NZ Soul All Dayer Christmas Party

NZ SOUL ALL DAYER
C h r i s t m a s   P a r t y   2 0 1 4
From 2pm, Saturday 6 December

To celebrate Christmas the NZ Soul All Dayer extended family are getting together in an open-decks, back-to-back, all vinyl throw down, featuring:

JAY JEFFREY 
GENE RIVERS 
SCOTT TOWERS 
LO KEY 
NYNTEE 
KIRK JAMES 
JUBT 
KIRSTY HARGREAVES 
PETER MAC 
KRIS HOLMES 
DUSTIN LINDALE 
MATENE KARENA 
EXILE 
KINA CUTS 
GRANTIS 
DJ TIDO 
J.BLUEVIBE 
PETE NICE

...and more!

Free from 2pm - just $5 from 8pm
Saturday 6 December, 2014
The Golden Dawn

Check the facebook event page here for more information...

Live: Sweetpants and Nyntee

This Friday night at the Golden Dawn...
SWEETPANTS AND NYNTEE
"Playing Other People's Songs"
Check here for more details.

LIVE: NZ Soul All Dayer Spring '14

BAM!!

www.thenzsoulalldayer.blogspot.com 
www.issuu.com/nzsoulalldayer 

LIVE: Expansions | Fri 4 July

It's All Good Presents
A Night Of Wide Vibes
EXPANSIONS
With
Jay Jeffrey
Nyntee
From 8pm
Friday 4th July
GOLDEN DAWN
No Door - Bring Yr Smile

Facebook page here.

IF YOU LOVE... Real vinyl records played by and listened to with real people.
IF YOU LOVE... To hear a diverse range of soulful musical styles in one evening.
IF YOU LOVE... Your DJs to play fresh and exciting sounds, both old and new.
IF YOU LOVE... To smile and laugh with friends while you dance your ass off.

We've got you covered. So come get wide with an open mind...

LIVE: Expansions | Fri 8 Nov

It's All Good Presents
A Night Of Wide Vibes
EXPANSIONS
With
Jay Jeffrey
Bevan Keys
Nyntee
and AWDJ
From 8pm
Fri 8 Nov
GOLDEN DAWN
No Door - Bring Yr Smile

Facebook page here.

The scene is Anycity. The time is after dark. The day is the weekend, because any time after dark is, by default, the weekend. Work is over. The straight world has gone to bed, doors firmly bolted against the hustlers and the johns; the cops, the robbers and the mack daddies; the heads, the jazz cats and the beat freaks. This is the world into which we beckon you, brave listener.

Jay 'Fat Albert' Jeffrey, Bevan Keys, Richard 'AWDJ' Crafter and David 'Nyntee' Carroll delve deep to deliver the goodness. And the badness. Just the way you never knew you liked it. You'll hear tough jazz funk, syrupy sweet soul, Latin flavoured floor fillers, left-footed house, car chase music, cosmic lazer disco and plenty more besides.

This is how we get wide - with an open mind.

Playlist: Mixed Messages | Tue 15 Oct, 2013

Had a bunch of fun playing at 'Mixed Messages' alongside Nigel Love and Kirk James. It's a good set up: half hour on, hour off, with plenty good lovin' on the food and drink and warm surroundings tip down at the Britomart Country Club, even on a cold, wet Tuesday night.

Here's the order the records came out of the bag...

Lady | Money
Spanky Wilson And The Quantic Soul Orchestra | I'm Thankful
Leroy Hutson | Love The Feeling
Sweet Charles | Soul Man
Al Green | Love Ritual
Windjammer | Tossing And Turning
Loose Ends | Hangin' On A String (Contemplating)
Omar | I Love Being With You
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Stonephace | Wedgehead Gets Lucky
Cal Tjader | Soul Burst
Julian Y Su Combo | Enyere Kumbara
MopMop with Fred Wesley and Anthony Joseph | Run Around
Barkin' Soul | Punto de Partida
Rocket Juice And The Moon with Erykah Badu | Manuela
Radio City with Bajka | Everything
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Dizzy Gillespie | Alligator
IG Culture Presents Zen Badizm with Bilal | Girl U Need A Change Of Mind
The Blackbyrds | Do It, Fluid
Joy Denalane with Lupe Fiasco | Change
Kenn Starr, Asheru and Talib Kweli | If
Choklate | Waitin'
Moka Only | Lowdown Suite
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Panache | Sweet Jazz Music
Wes Coats | Land Of Music
Michael Henderson | Whip It
Kellee Patterson | Turn On The Lights
Rufus with Chaka Khan | Circles
Maxayn | Trying For Days
The Lewis Connection | Mr. G

Big thanks to the boys for the invite.
Keep Vinyl Alive!

Coming soon! NZ Soul All Dayer

NZ Soul All Dayer
New Zealand's premier soul music event
An all day celebration of soul music
2pm-2am
Sat 11 May
Golden Dawn
For more info...
Or contact: nzsoulalldayer@gmail.com

Live at Tin Soldier: All Vinyl Saturdays in November

I'm excited to be starting a mini-residency at Tin Soldier during November; with their strictly vinyl-only policy and open-minded musical appetite, Saturday nights should be a lot of fun.

The food in the restaurant is, quite frankly, amazing, and the service is spot on. They've a bunch of fancy craft beers, a flash new fitout and now, a bespoke selection of quality music from 6pm every Saturday in November. If I may say so myself.

Nice one.

Club Connoisseurs Playlist: Mon 13 Aug

Every Monday evening from 6pm some of Auckland's most keen lovers of vinyl share some of their collection for Club Connoisseurs, at Chapel Bar. This week I had the great pleasure of playing a number of tunes, alongside Messrs Murray Cammick and Jay Jeffrey. Hallowed company, indeed. My selection included these tunes...

Cal Tjader | Soul Burst
Etta James & Jimmy Smith | I Just Want To Make Love To You
D'Angelo | Spanish Joint
Rocket Juice & The Moon with Erykah Badu | Manuela
Bukky Leo & Black Egypt | Skeleton
Nancy Wilson | Sunshine
Breakout | Planet Rock (Jazz version)
The Lions with Noelle | Think (About It)
The Rebirth | Evil Vibrations
The Congoes | Fisherman
Sugar Minott | Give The People What They Want
Yesterday's New Quintet | Too High
Sinclair | Ain't No Casanova
Quincy Jones | The Dude
Cymande | It's Magic
Charles Earland | Comin' To You Live
Toshiki Kadomatsu | Step Into The Light (Onur Engin edit)
Corky McClerkin | Searchin' For The Soul

Live: Music Sounds Better With You

Coming Up This Saturday Night from 7pm
MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU
With DJs
(7-9) SWEETPANTS
(9-12) CUFFY
(12-3) NYNTEE
Free Entry | Drinks Specials | Delicious Food
Saturday 28 July
LONGROOM
www.longroom.co.nz

Live: TNC

THE NARK COLLECTIVE
Wednesday 11 July, from 10pm

With Mikey Havoc, Nyntee, Rich Carey, Flex, Queen St Hooligans, Daniel Farley, The Lost Boys, Mad World & Adventure Time

1885 Britomart
Free Entry

Live: Saturdays at Longroom

Just a reminder, folks ;)

BEVAN KEYS and NYNTEE

Soulful Funky House Music and More
Saturday nights from 7pm (or, just after the rugby, this weekend...)

LONGROOM 
www.longroom.co.nz 

Live: Taking It Back

Longroom presents
TAKING IT BACK
With Your Hosts and DJs
SAM HILL and NYNTEE
A Brand New Weekly Night Of All Good Music, All Night Long
THURSDAYS from 7pm
LONGROOM
www.longroom.co.nz

Live Review: Mayer Hawthorne at Powerstation Thu 23 Feb

MAYER HAWTHORNE 
The Powerstation, Auckland
Thu 23 Feb 2012

"This is a show, not a concert! I want to get that straight right now!" Mayer Hawthorne says after he and his band The County have torn through a white-hot version of Maybe So, Maybe No. As far as statements of intent go, his opening words are nothing but honest. From the moment Hawthorne came bounding on-stage he was the consummate frontman, always addressing the crowd with grace and good humour - even free-pouring Hennessey into the front row's upheld beer glasses at one point - while he led his impressive four-piece band through a set peppered with covers ranging from Snoop Dogg to The Doobie Brothers. The County were genuine showmen too, from the bass-player with his LMFAO-styled haircut and leopard-skin towel to the seriously bad-ass drummer, whose vibrant playing gave the songs a driving, exciting backbone. Most of the time that is, as there was an awkward ten-minute stretch of over-egged blue-eyed soul where even he couldn't stop them sounding more like The Eagles than Steely Dan. However, the audience didn't seem to care, lapping up everything Hawthorne laid down, including an inspired take on Snoop's Gangsta Luv and an underwhelming limp through Waajeed's Dilla tribute Jeedo Suave. There's a reason we were prepared to humour him the odd stumble though, and it's important I labour this: Hawthorne and his band had already won us over. He had us eating out of the palm of his hand thanks to storming renditions of Just Ain't Gonna Work Out, Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin', The Ills, The Walk and Long Time, with songs blending into one another, synchronised dance steps from the band and plenty of crowd interaction. That was one of the great surprises of the evening: how many folks knew the words, singing along to almost everything, including I Wish It Would Rain, the b-side of that famous heart-shaped debut single. The other great surprise was the quality of Hawthorne's singing voice. He cops a lot of flak over this, with negative comparisons to his old label-mate Aloe Blacc and question marks over his credibility even singing soul music. Let's set the record straight, shall we? Mayer Hawthorne can sing. He can really sing. He hit all the high notes and seemed to genuinely engage with each and every song. He also engaged with a huge number of punters, if the deliriously ass-shaking crowd on the night - and facebook comments ('I Heart Mayer', 'Swoooon!', etc) the morning after - are anything to go by. Hawthorne claims to make "soul music for hip hop heads", and that's important: this wasn't a soul revue, or a retro-styled throwback concert. This was simple, uncomplicated fun, and we could all do with more of that.

Review originally appeared in Volume magazine

Live: Music Sounds Better With You

Longroom and Peroni present
MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU
A new night of gorgeous grooves, with DJs
Bevan Keys, Jason Eli, Nyntee and Sweetpants
From 7pm til 3am + Free Entry + Drinks Specials All Night
LONGROOM
114 Ponsonby Rd

Live: Bang

Northern Steamship presents
bang.
A new night of Indie Disco, Post Punk, Electronic Boogie and more!
With DJs  
Nyntee, Safari Boy and Flex
Free Entry + from 9pm + Sat 25 Feb
NORTHERN STEAMSHIP
Britomart, Auckland City
Northern Steamship