Wellington music and gig guide - The Kitchen Sink

WANDA JACKSON June 21, SFBH

ridiculoid — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:16:10 +0000

Thu 13 May

ridiculoid — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:37:56 +0000

Wanda Jackson at SFBH June 21

Daaamn loving Strange Life Records at the moment

THE BEATNUTS June 17, SFBH

ridiculoid — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:39:08 +0000

BANG BANG ECHE June 4, Mighty

ridiculoid — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:16:19 +0000

Tue 11 May

ridiculoid — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:04:26 +0000

Ratatat bird and green screen – guess it encourages communityvideopost-productionethoslet’sallgetalongwhy
can’twealljustlearntogetalong?

Mighty June 4: Bang Bang Eche, Bandicoot, Crackhouse 5 and Mammal Airlines

New video for Urbantramper’s Ode to the Public Servant

History yo! NZ Film Archive is screening Catching the Beat, “a compilation of short films, music videos and early sound recordings” of music made in NZ between 1930 – 2002, Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May

Sun 9 May

ridiculoid — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:28:39 +0000

Goodbye Galesburg fundraiser starts at 3pm today feat. Thought Creature, Signer, Seth Frightening and others, just $10! THANK YOU JIM AND GORDON

Gordon Campbell on how the NZ government will kill the NZ music scene for internationals

@opdiner ‘When punk rockers Suburban Reptiles insulted patrons at the Awapuni hotel, they didn’t bank on Manawatu muscle.’ more

Fri 7 May

ridiculoid — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:31:23 +0000

Golden Axe are releasing their new album on ‘Compact Disc’, June 19 at Mighty Mighty! Support from 47 Diamantes and Leno Lovecraft

GOLDEN AXE June 19, Mighty Mighty

ridiculoid — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:29:41 +0000

GOLDEN AXE are releasing their balls out new album on the now defunct COMPACT DISC format. Cassette tapes will also be on offer.

Be one of the lucky few to snap up this lil slice of history. Once they sell out – that’s it folks!

To help grease the way, they’ve enlisted the services of Wellington’s finest..

LENO LOVECRAFT and 47 DIAMANTES and GOLDEN AXE and GUEST DJs

COLLAPSING CITIES May 20, SFBH

ridiculoid — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:04:29 +0000

A Week Of Choice

choicechoices — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:32:41 +0000

Eeek it’s been a bit too long since the last post. Sorry about that lovely readers – real life has conspired against me. But boy, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks!

First up, congratulations must be put out to all the entrants of the Wellington 48 Hour Film Competition. Last night was the finals (a killer sell-out show at Embassy) and the winner’s were all excellent. First place went to Dog Productions with their gorgeous film, Balls and Chain. It made everyone let up a collective ‘awwwww’ and is now on it’s way to the Grand Finals. Great script writing from Simon Smith and team. Second place went to The Mammal Group for The Wake Up. The Wake Up was definitely a crowd pleased, opening with a So So Modern track and closing with an epic song by someone I don’t know – but I’m hoping someone can enlighten me. It doesn’t hurt matters that the film was made, acted in, produced etc by some of the most beautiful people in Wellington. Seriously, if I hadn’t seen them accept awards (granted, from the back of the theatre), I wouldn’t think they existed. Third place to the Timelanders which was a fun movie that reminded me of Hot Roda little bit. Good times all round.

Anyway, on with things that YOU can go to this week.

It is of course Comedy Fest season. I know tickets aren’t always cheap BUT you can get 2-4-1 deals at their booth most days. Which means a $25.00 show is actually only $12.50 if you split it with someone you like. One tip: comedy as a first date is rife with problems. Comedians have a way of zeroing in on new ‘couples’ and as one person found out this week, sometimes the lady doesn’t like being picked on in front of the San Fran crowd. Doh. Top picks: El Jaguar’s Variety Show, TJ McDonald, and Josie Long. And The Comediettes.

AND it’s NZ Music Month. You know the drill, go see stuff.

Ok, so life should be a bit back to normal so you can expect to see something every week from now on. If YOU have suggestions on things you’d like to see, email us or comment and we’ll go check it out.

Have a choice week people!