Here is Aussie band Mess Esque, captured live last night in Auckland.
Come and get some of this in Featherston tonight when they play at Common Ground.
Only a handful of tickets remain.
Email: [email protected] to get yours. 😁
MESS ESQUE Live in Featherston
Aussie indie darlings MESS ESQUE are performing in Featherston next Thursday 7th March.
Featuring Mick Turner! Founder of The Dirty Three, and collaborator with such artists as Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bill Callahan, Nick Cave, and many others.
Mess Esque features Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann. The duo released their second album - simply titled Mess Esque on Milk! records (and Drag City in the US). Things quickly moved along with an Australian, American and European tour. Their debut album landed in Jeff Tweedy’s Top Ten of 2021 and led to a coveted invitation to Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts where they also played in Will Oldham’s band. Tours with Kurt Vile and Big Thief followed.
Through a patient balance of improvisations and a focused pursuit of something that wasn’t fully there at the start, Mess Esque willed themselves and their world into verdant, lustrous being.
For their first time in Aotearoa, Mess Esque are going to recreate these special songs with Keeley Young (Claude) on bass/vocals and Greg Cairns (The Verlaines) on drums. The results will no doubt be as captivating & mesmeric as they appear on the records.
Seating for this show is strictly limited, get in quick to reserve your spot. Bookings are essential.
Thursday 7th March
Doors 7pm. Show 7:30pm
Tickets $30.00
For booking information please email us at: [email protected]
Our next concert at Common Ground is a doozy! (Sound On)
Featuring three projects all the way from Australia, specifically coming over the hill to Featherston for an evening of quirky and cool electronica.
GREAT STATUE
MARCUS WHALE
FALSE COLOURS
Great Statue performing their "weirdo butch pop swag", Marcus Whale and his "experimental cowboy pop opera", and False Colours with their "croony synthy new wave".
Monday 26th February
Doors 7pm, first performance at 7:30pm
Tickets $30.00
For booking information please email us at: [email protected]
* LIVE MUSIC COMES TO COMMON GROUND *
Give someone the gift of live musical performance, with a ticket/s to this show. 🤩
SAM BAMBERY brings his alt-rock stylings to Common Ground on Saturday 13th January.
Sam Bambery is an Ōtautahi/Christchurch based songwriter and artist, exploring his love of semi-psychedelia and sonic texture through a twisted folk-rock lens. Leaning heavily into alt-country collage.
Seating for this show is strictly limited, get in quick to reserve your spot.
Tickets $30.00 pre-sale
For payment information please email us at: [email protected]
> Action Painting #3
> By Rosalie Jurczenko
> Created today within ten minutes and only ten minutes
> Improvised guitar score by Zac Winterwood
> At Common Ground
Rosalie Jurczenko Artist Holly Winterwood
"The Time That Was"
Featuring Timothy Blackman and Mali Mali.
Here is an extended look at some of the moments from our concert on Sunday 24th September 2023.
Thanks so much to Ben for driving all of the way down all from Tāmaki-makau-rau - Auckland to join us, and to Tim for coming up from Te Whanganui-a-Tara - Wellington, and giving us such an engaging afternoon of song craft.
Timothy Blackman Mali Mali Home Alone Music
"The Time that Was"
Featuring Calla.
Here is an extended look at some of the moments from our concert on Saturday 16th September 2023.
Thanks so much to Calla for joining us all the way from Ōtepoti Dunedin, and creating such a dramatic vibe while the wind carried on outside.
And an important thank you to the people of Featherston and the Wairarapa for coming out.
"The Time That Was"
Featuring Winterwood, and Lane.
Here is an extended look at some of the moments from our concert on Saturday 26th August 2023.
Thanks so much to Winterwood, and Lane for creating such a warm and embracing environment on a cold winter's night.
And an important thank you to the people of Featherston and the Wairarapa for coming out.
HZ Winterwood Holly Winterwood
This Sunday 24th September come and check out the music of Timothy Blackman when he performs in support of Mali Mali.
TIMOTHY BLACKMAN is a singer from Wellington, New Zealand. Classically trained in violin from the age of five, in his formative years Blackman revolted against convention, turning to the inchoate angst of grunge music. Tired of thrashing chords and depleting his lungs, Tim changed direction, beginning to mould solitary pensive songs on an old four-track borrowed from a friend. The lo-fi bedroom recordings weave together enigmatic and opaque lyrics and skeletal guitar picking. Permeated by themes of loss and displacement, the public and the private.
Sunday 24th September
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Tickets $30
Spaces limited.
To book, phone/text: 027 952 8336 or email: [email protected]
CALLA performs in Featherston this Saturday night!
Bringing her unique blend of operatic voice, violin, keys, and electronics all the way from Dunedin to Common Ground. We’re pumped, and you should be too! 😁
Calla’s music is a listening experience designed to stir the depths of our primal and vulnerable inner worlds. Expect elements of operatic vocals, heavy bass, and hommages to the worlds of folk, pop, and cinema epics.
Saturday 16th September
7:00pm
Tickets $30
Spaces limited.
To book, phone/text: 027 952 8336 or email: [email protected]
WE ARE OPEN
Treaures of art await you...
Come on down and see us on this glorious day. 🥳
Open til 3pm
Departing Reflecting
* Glimpses *
Hayley Smith and Rhian Smith
🎶 Al Fraser and Ariana Tikao
The Deep Listen approaches...
We three are so excited to share this experience with you.
But in the meantime, here is a cool sneak peek from Erika Grant into her amazing collection of gongs she will be playing with us this Sunday.
There is still time to book in. Don't miss this unique experience featuring Erika's gong playing, combined with our singing bowls, vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bells, drones, and nature sounds.
We're looking forward to seeing you,
Holly, Zac, and Erika
"The Time that Was"
Featuring 1/3 Octave Band, and The Troubled Times.
Here is an extended look at some of the moments from our concert on Saturday 15th June 2023.
Thanks so much to Bill Wood, Antony Milton, Dave Edwards, David Heath for creating such a special night with their respective musics.
And an important thank you to the people of Featherston and the Wairarapa for coming out.
People power is what drives this. Keep on showing up. We have lots more in the works for you! 🙏
(Sound On)
< > Departing Reflecting
< > Opens Tomorrow. Matariki. 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Friday 14 July: 5.30-7.30pm
Saturday 15 July: 10am-3pm
Sunday 16 July: 10am-3pm
Friday 21 July: 5.30-7.30pm
Saturday 22 July: 10am-3pm
Sunday 23 July: 10am-12pm
Common Ground
50c Fitzherbert St. Featherston
Sound On (and preferably loud!)
Greetings,
We are super excited to announce the next concert coming up in our gallery space.
This double bill features some of the most respected artists in the country's underground music world. Don't miss this rare occasion where they come together under our gallery roof.
* 1/3 OCTAVE BAND * & * THE TROUBLED TIMES *
"1/3 Octave Band" is a long running experimental ambient sound project, creating a distinct flavour of string driven shiver floating in a lake of orchestral sheen. Rhythm-less, with melodies forming inside themselves, like the surge and pulse of a wave. Hyper-kinetic drones fashioned from the slow moving gracefulness of supersonic spacejunk.
The mysterious trio, "The Troubled Times", play a loud and noisy nocturnal romp through the hills and onto the gravel back roads of one of Aotearoa's least visited regions. Like a psychedelic pub jam band gone BRILLIANTLY 'wrong'. Woozy blues paeans slip sideways into feedback freakouts, and heavy Hawkwind-like stomps, attempt to transition into songs, by The Fall.
Saturday 15th July
7:00pm
Tickets $30
Spaces limited.
To book, phone/text: 027 952 8336 or email: [email protected]
COMMON GROUND
50c Fitzherbert St, Featherston
RECORDS RECORDS RECORDS
Our new record shop (within the gallery) is now open!
We have just received this release from the Oro Records label.
Here is a brief look at 'Bird Like Men' by Tararua. Available in a gorgeous book and CD edition containing lyrics and visual art.
Sound On to listen.
Open
Fri: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sat/Sun: 10am - 3pm
RECORDS RECORDS RECORDS
Our new record shop (within the gallery) is now open!
We have just received a wee shipment of titles from Rattle Records, the amazing long running NZ record label who push the outer reaches of the music world.
Here is a brief look at 'Panthalassa' by Al Fraser, Sam Leamy, Neil Johnstone.
CD is presented in a beautiful in-house-designed hardcover 'Rattle-Pack'.
Sound On to listen.
Open
Fri: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sat/Sun: 10am - 3pm
RECORDS RECORDS RECORDS
Our new record shop (within the gallery) is now open!
We have just received a wee shipment of titles from Rattle Records, the amazing long running NZ record label who push the outer reaches of the music world.
Here is a brief look at 'Nau Mai E Kā Hua' by Al Fraser and Ariana Tikao.
CD is presented in a beautiful in-house-designed hardcover 'Rattle-Pack'.
Sound On to listen.
Open
Fri: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sat/Sun: 10am - 3pm
"The Time that Was"
Featuring The Melancholy Babes.
Here is an extended look at some of the moments from our concert on Friday 16th June 2023.
Thanks so much to Jeff Henderson, Tom Callwood, and Anthony Donaldson for filling the gallery with their amazing improvisational music.
And an important thank you to the people of Featherston for coming out.
Keep on coming out. We have lots more in the works for you!
