This new­bie mem­ber of the Wel­ling­tonista was beaten to punch when it came to report­ing on the glad-wrap­ping record attempt at the Mighty Mighty. How­ever I thought I would add my two cents worth about the night and the over­all friend­li­ness of the Mighty Mighty for the female solo trav­el­er.

First off, why was I head­ing into the night to be mum­mi­fied in the first place? Well some­times you have the kind of week where you wish that someone would render you mostly immob­ile by glad-wrap­ping your arms to the side of your body. While this does present tech­nic­al dif­fi­culties when it comes to drink­ing beer, it does keep your hands off the key­board for awhile! The exper­i­ence reminded me some­what of Tokyo morn­ing rush hour trains, the term “sushi zume” packed like sushi seemed pretty apt as the final cir­cu­lar wrap was made around 41(?) people. The chances of being groped were about the same (you might be sur­prised how cre­at­ive some people can be even with their hands firmly wrapped to them­selves) but there were few­er suits and more hip­pies and smiles on this love train. Oh and free jager­meister.

This little piece of mid-week absurdity was bought to us in asso­ci­ation with the spec­tac­u­lar Welly-based arts magazine White Fungus who, as it hap­pens, pub­lished a great art­icle about Rua Ken­ana just before all this shizzy kicked off in the Urew­er­as. How pres­ci­ent indeed, you should check it out. While this event is now over and and all you can do is look long­ingly at the pho­tos of this plastic love in, there will be a fol­low up event. Appar­ently, after­wards the cling film is being melted into a statue of Roy Orbison to com­mem­or­ate the event. Some­thing to look for­ward to. Any the how, I do rate the Mighty Mighty as an insti­tu­tion. You can get Sassy Red on tap, the music is con­sist­ently good, and it is nice and dark with lots of apple green and vel­vety red. As a new­comer to Wel­ling­ton I espe­cially like it. Reas­on being that even if I have lost who I came with (or am the last woman stand­ing) the good people of Wel­ling­ton can be relied upon to extend the hand of friend­ship. So far all that has been neces­sary is a bag of lol­lies and a cam­era. May I recom­mend some spots? Firstly, if you are not a smoker maybe you should start. The out­door smoking area at Mighty Mighty is unof­fi­cially the friend­li­est place in Wel­ling­ton. I per­son­ally met the most out­stand­ing man in Wel­ling­ton there. I can vouch for it.

Secondly if you are not a woman, bum­mer for you because Mighty Mighty has the friend­li­est, least bitchy toi­let ever. Even all the graf­fiti is loved up. Pos­sibly some of the women of Wel­ling­ton are too unguarded in the bath­rooms because some of them allowed me to take their por­traits in the bath­room, in the early hours.…(if this is you and in the cold light of day do not remem­ber agree­ing to let me put this on the net, con­tact me and I will take it down quick smart like).