Many Wel­ling­tonis­tas have already dis­covered the good­ness that is Kazu: an oas­is of dark wood, mind-bend­ing rice-based bever­ages and unmen­tion­able innards on sticks, taste­fully hid­den away from the Cour­tenay hordes. In the unlikely event that beef tongue and chick­en car­til­age aren’t enough to tempt you up the stair­case, Radio Act­ive’s The Jew­el School will be blend­ing their down­beat grooves with Kazu’s sizz­ling yakitori and intox­ic­at­ing sake. The first of the series kicks off tomor­row night (May 6th).

If The Jew­el School’s playl­ist does­n’t seem Kiwi enough for NZ Music Month, then The Trans­mis­sion at Bodega tomor­row after­noon and even­ing might be more up your alley. It’s a live record­ing for Nation­al Radio, fea­tur­ing inter­views and pan­el dis­cus­sions that will be broad­cast, web­cast, prob­ably pod­cast and maybe even surfcast. Oh, and did I men­tion the bands? Minu­it, Recloose, Ryan Preb­ble, Grayson Gilmour (of So So Mod­ern) and a sub­stan­tial sub­set of Phoenix Found­a­tion per­form­ing in vari­ous per­muta­tions (can­’t those damn Wel­ling­ton musos just choose a band and stick to it?). DJ Alpha­bet­head will cre­ate “a very spe­cial Kiwiana mash-up of records from the RNZ Vaults”, which sounds either great fun or totally scary, and will prob­ably be both.

Record­ing starts at 2pm, with bands from 4pm. There’s appar­ently no sched­ule to show when spe­cif­ic acts will per­form, which is pre­sum­ably to stop per­verts (you know who you are) just turn­ing up for Minu­it to see what Ms Carr is almost wear­ing. It also make it hard to tell wheth­er there’ll be time to make it to this and The Jew­el School for an even squish­i­er mash-up. In any case, both events are free (yes, f‑r-e‑e), so you can save your money for the Stam­ina Chick­en Combo: hearts, “soft bone”, liv­er, gib­lets and kim­chi (uggh: veget­ables!)