Image via: Heavy Metal Ninjas & Mr Leon Taylor By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor The interstellar dudes of Heavy Metal Ninjas are set to head off to Germany very shortly to play the Euroblast Festival on October 2nd – 4th; but not before they plan to melt the faces of the gathered devoted at a very […]
Achtung OTK Fans! Worldwide Wednesday: Germany
Achtung! We’re off to Germany for Worldwide Wednesday at One Take Kate today; in honour of Heavy Metal Ninjas and their imminent performance at the Euroblast Festival next month! This stunner is Neuschwanstein Castle; created in the 19th century, just outside of Cologne and is thought to be the inspiration for THE Disney castle of […]
Bonjour OTK fans – Worldwide Wednesday: Paris
Image by Serge Ramelli http://bit.ly/1AwGpqK Bonjour OTK Fans! It’s Worldwide Wednesday…and we’re traveling to Paris! This selection has been inspired by recent cinema release ‘Lucy‘; where Scarlett Johansson races through the streets and past the landmarks of ‘gay paree’ in a battle against time. Also, this particular image looks to be the same bridge and […]
RIP Joan Rivers June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014.
Image Via R.I.P. Joan Rivers June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014. Flashback Friday is going out to Joan Rivers and her appearance with Miss Piggy on The Muppets film The Muppets Take Manhattan, from back in my day. The Muppets delivered all the stars back in the 70s & 80s and was my introduction […]
Travelling in Style…On-Tour Fashion with Ladi6
She’s is a Mother, a Tui & Taite Music Prize award winner and one of Aotearoa’s most beloved Hip Hop-inistas; Ladi6 took a moment out to have a chat with me about her on-tour fashion & beauty go-to items, her lust list of tour destinations she would love to visit, as well as giving […]
NBA All Star Weekend New Orleans 2014 – State Farm All Star Saturday Night!
After a completely stunning opener last night at the Compass BBVA Rising Stars Challenge match up; where TEAM HILL (142) took it out over TEAM WEBBER (136) in a clinic of fundamental skills and ultimately a game where viewers such as myself were left wondering if this really WAS a team predominantly of rookies and […]
NBA All Star Weekend New Orleans 2014 – Compass BBVA Rising Stars Challenge
I’m a big time NBA Basketball fan and I’m pleased to bringing my first NBA flavoured OTK post to you! I’ve been living in a Basketball wasteland after having to cut my ESPN connection to save some coin; and I’m yet to hook onto a NBA League Pass connection, which would allow me to see […]
Antipodean Beauties – Nerdy
Here’s my first attempt delving into the world of beauty blogging! As always though, this is going to have that unique OTK view on things and will appeal to the spirits out there, who just like to do things a little differently, even if it means people may think them…a little strange. Google Antipodean Beauties […]
Dave Bautista (GOTG Vol. 2’s Drax the Destroyer) Interview from July 2009
Feature image via Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki WWE Superstar Batista – interviewed in person (yip, I met Dave in the very muscly flesh) at The Sebel in Auckland, March 2009; and as published in Groove Guide magazine, July 2009. Written under my maiden name. Sidenote: it’s cool to see how far the quality of my […]
Introduction to One Take Kate
By Kate “One Take Kate” Taylor. OTK: Kate Taylor and the main man, Dre Taylor…he’s not into Paparazzi in this shot. I’m Kate Taylor and this is One Take Kate. Or as it will come to roll off the keyboard over time as, OTK. One Take Kate, reviewing and editorialising life as it happens. I love […]