Archive for July, 2009

Ardijah Live at the Republic Bar, Manukau City.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

ARDIJAH jammed’ the ‘PolyFonk’ at the Republic bar on the 14Th August in Manukau City…….Well that gig went off. It didn’t take long to be ’sold-out’ so we played to a full house. The start of the night came to a halt after the ‘Manukau Fire Dept’ arrived and tried to evacuate the venue. Apparently the smoke [...]

Billy Ocean – Rotorua 20th June 2009

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The Band Ardijah had the privilege of opening up for Billy Ocean in Rotorua Aotearoa back in June 2009. Billy got to  hear the Ardijah soundcheck and was quite impressed. (That’s how we scored the photo) It was an awesome night of music. Ardijah played with the acoustic set-up and got the people up dancing from [...]

Paddling Vaka (canoes) in beautiful Tahiti.

Monday, July 6th, 2009

We’ve been flat out again but this time, on the beach in Tahiti. Betty-Anne is full on into ‘oe vaka’ (waka ama, va’a, Vaka etc) and we spent a week in Tahiti hooking up with our Maohi (Maori) whanau visiting and paddling. It’s their winter there now which is close to our Aotearoa summer. Man [...]