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.