Stages

The Barrytown Hall on the South Island's West Coast has been hosting bands since the early '70s, fuelling demand from the area's alternative lifestylers. Read more Audio

Started as a live music joint with enough atmosphere to keep young people from driving to Hamilton every weekend, the Yot Club in Raglan is a popular venue where locals mix with out-of-towners… Read more Audio

Underneath St Kevin’s Arcade on Karangahape Road, red-lit, grungy and subterranean in feel, the Wine Cellar has been the venue for many musicians' first Auckland show. Read more Audio

A working sawmill up until 1994, the Leigh Sawmill Cafe is now a beautiful historic venue where top acts from NZ and abroad perform weekly. Anthonie Tonnon takes us there. Read more Audio

Anthonie Tonnon visits New Zealand's most talked about places to see music. The waiting list is almost a year long, and musicians return with legends of blissful crowds, a brewery on site and log… Read more Audio

After seven and a half years, Wellington bar Mighty Mighty is closing at the end of May 2014. Read more Audio

The Cabana in Napier hosted Th' Dudes for a four-night stand in 1979, and is one of the few venues from that era that is a live music venue today. Read more Audio

Anthonie Tonnon heads to Lyttelton and visits a venue with nine lives. It may also be the country's most visually disarming bar - The Wunderbar. Read more Audio

This Auckland venue is a rite of passage for bands and gig-goers from around the country. It's just shy of its third decade, which in music venue terms makes it an institution. Read more Audio

Port Chalmers is a beautiful, eerie port town with enough industrial noise to ease the tinnitus of the musicians who call it home. Chick's Hotel is a dark, looming building that allows bands from… Read more Audio