It’s celeb city up in our latest August issue of Cityscape magazine. Inside you’ll find interviews with UK comedy royalty and living legend Bill Bailey ahead of his Earl of Whimsy tour in Christchurch this September, and best-selling US author A.J. Finn (who’s literary debut The Woman in the Window sparked a buyer frenzy). We pick his brains and find out how he came up with his pseudonym and why Amy Adams was his first and only choice to take on the lead role in the upcoming movie adaptation. Finn is coming to town as part of the epic WORD Christchurch Festival where we suss the mammoth event that crams 150 literary icons (think Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame, slam poetry and radical self-love icon Sonya Renee Taylor, poetic genius Hollie McNish, take-no-Kindle-prisoner Shaun Bythell plus a ton more) into 100 events over 5 glorious days and nights of literary enlightenment. We also catch up with legends on the Kiwi music scene; Julia Deans, who’s bringing her We Light Fire album tour to the city, and The Phoenix Foundation’s frontman and Hunt for the Wilderpeople soundtrack creator Lukasz Buda about the band’s 20th birthday celebratory tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra which is taking over the Isaac Theatre Royal this month. We also catch up with NZ art master Dick Frizzell whose larger than life exhibition Something to Behold! is set to open at The Central Art Gallery. Elsewhere, we give you the scoop on the New Zealand International Film Festival, meet the funky and colourful personality behind swanky hair salon True Grit: Jacqui Victor, sit down with the dynamic duo and Fascial Stretch Therapists extraordinaires behind Restore Prehabilitation & Recovery, Barry Adams and Liv Bates, whip up tasty Buddha Bowls with Untouched World Kitchen’s Mark McCracken and dine out (and indulge in breakfast cocktails) in serious style at café hotspot Miro. Oh, and there’s also our signature round up of the best-of-the-best in gigs, events, films and music. Enjoy!
August & Everything After
