After having woken up The Verlaines from an almost decade-long hiatus two years ago, Graeme Downes is busy putting albums out. The songwriter talks to JULE SCHERER of NZPA about the role of artists in society and the challenges of middle age.

Singer-guitarist David Kilgour of influential rock group The Clean and New Zealand's best-loved poet Sam Hunt perform together at a very different LATE at the Museum.