lambchopAs well as all the sport­ing cham­pi­on­ships and fest­ivals tak­ing place around Wel­ling­ton over the week­end, there was also an insane num­ber of top gigs.

Top loc­al tal­ents The Black Seeds, Pase­load, Ghost­plane were on show around town, as well as oth­er excel­lent kiwi bands Dav­id Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, and The Fan­at­ics.

On the inter­na­tion­al front we had the Viol­ent Femmes swinging into town to regale yet anoth­er year of varisty fresh­ers with their songs of love and angst, and alt-coun­try legends Lam­bchop were play­ing down at Indigo. Oh, and there was Neil Dia­mond, of course.

I did­n’t go to a single one of these gigs. But Jess from The Back­yard did – to sev­er­al of them in fact, so go and read her write up.