The Weekend Sun
Friday 2 October 2015
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A Brilleaux way to celebrate a new album It’s all good news this week – the most exclusive little party in Tauranga is coming up and we have free tickets to give away!
demolished to make way for a roundabout in the not too distant future. The less optimistic remember such exercises where a much-loved (and ideal) building is replaced with some soulless Actually, all the tickets are free. But they’re rarer multi-purpose edifice designed by committee to than those little dentures they make for hens after suit everyone but missing everything that made it their teeth fall out and we’ve got two of them. important to the community in the first place. Best of all, as far as I’m concerned, is that we’re once But I digress... again celebrating the launch of a local Most of the concerts at the CD, this time Brilleaux’s Te Puna Hall are organised by ‘Pictures Of The Queen’, the indomitable Rosie Holmes, already released overseas who came to Tauranga a few during their UK tour earlier years back after doing a similar this year, now finally getting thing in Thames, putting an outing here. on shows for touring bands, I’ve got a copy in my hot usually leaning towards that little hands and will review Americana axis of country, it next week. Right now let blues and folk. It works well. me tell you about the launch. Tickets aren’t expensive, It’s on Sunday, October there are usually enough ober 9. ct O g in ay pl il 18 at The Matua (in, duh, Hobna people for the band in question to do okay, Matua). 2pm. Numbers are overheads are low, and everyone gets to hear some great incredibly limited. The band will play an acoustic set, music in an intimate informal setting. the album will be launched for assembled friends and This month (Friday, October 9 to be precise) Rosie’s a who’s who of the town’s musicians. There will be free got Hobnail coming from Wellington. They’ve been refreshments, and it’ll be a blast! kicking around for a while. The band started as a pure Frontman Graham Clark says “We’ve put on so many Celtic outfit, Hobnail Boots, in the mid-1990s during shows in town and asked people to shell out money to the boom of Irish pubs which overtook the country see us so we wanted to give something back, to put on and saw Irish music briefly become the party flavour a day where we could repay people for supporting us.” du jour. With that in mind tickets are available to fans from Led by Robb Joass, who has come to town previously brilleaux@xtra.co.nz. Just email and ask. They’re free, as part of the Too Many Chiefs band, which also but with only a few dozen, if that, it’s going to be a included Hot Club Sandwich’s Andrew London and rush. Get in now. Or, of course, enter our competition. Kiwi legend Wayne Mason, the band lost the ‘Boots’ In the meantime, next weekend there’s another along the way and has morphed into a more original concert at the Te Puna Memorial Hall. I must say, I’m outfit, still dependent on the fiddle but musically a big fan of these regular country bashes. Something broader. They now have a couple of decades on the about having a show in a rural hall such as this feels clock and half a dozen albums under their belts. Hear like part of that long Kiwi tradition of fabled Saturday more at www.hobnail.co.nz night dances stretching back 50 years and more. It’s a 7.30pm start with doors open at 6.45pm. $20 It’s a busy little hall, used not only for these on the door or get a ticket in advance from Rosie at shows but by community groups, and a lot of folk 5526291 or redruth@vodafone.co.nz are counting on a proper replacement when it is watusi@thesun.co.nz
Managing our surprises and expectations The weather has been slowly getting better and the RWC has had a couple of huge surprises already. Japan and Wales are making their rugby voices heard – well done to them – and Kiwis are waiting with high expectations for our team to do us proud. The words ‘surprises and expectations’ have a lot to with the hospitality industry as well. As Kiwis we expect great service, either in actual service or through purchasing food or beverages, and we’re also surprised that many times we don’t receive it. One reason I see is that the hospitality profession is not taken seriously by the majority of staff and customers. Have
you complimented your wait-staff member, the bartender or even the barista who makes your coffee for providing good service? Make the effort to let the manager or owner know that you’ve had good service and that the staff member is a credit to the business – even to the hospitality industry. Or the other end: Give a constructive comment to improve or correct your service provider to help them improve, so next time it’ll be memorable for the right reasons. Again, let the manager or owner have specific constructive comments to improve the business’s service to the customer. We’re here to look after you as a customer, so you’ll have a positive hospitality experience and that in turn will help improve the perception of our industry, to both staff and customers, as a true worthwhile profession.
The Weekend Sun has $50 voucher to use at Phoenix to give away to one lucky reader who can tell us, which two rugby teams made their voices heard so-far in the RWC? Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competitions section. Entries must be received before Wednesday, October 7.
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The Weekend Sun has a double pass to the Brilleaux launch party to give away to one lucky reader who can tell us, what is their new album title? Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competitions section. Entries must be received before Wednesday, October 7.
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