The Welling­ton­ista and Pub­lic Address, in asso­ci­a­tion with Free­view and Ponoko proud­ly present

THERE IS NO DEPRESSION IN WELLINGTON

It’s a quiz show! It’s awards for the best bits of our fair city! It’s BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Mighty Mighty, Thurs­day 6 Decem­ber. Doors open at 6pm. $15 and dona­tion to Down­town Com­mu­ni­ty Min­istry encour­aged.

First up the clever peo­ple of Pub­lic Address Radio and the Down Low Con­cept will bring you It Does­n’t Give My Oppo­nents Much Time Either, a quiz show in which var­i­ous celebri­ty con­tes­tants par­ty like Mul­doon is still Prime Min­is­ter and Rus­sell Brown asks the tricky retro ques­tions.

Then, for the sec­ond year in the row, the Welling­ton­ista will tell you who you’ve vot­ed for as the best of Welling­ton. Vot­ing is open at The Welling­ton­ista until Decem­ber 4. What’s the best drink in town, who’s the hottest hos­pi­tal­i­ty work­er who’ll serve you that drink, and where will you eat away the hang­over the next morn­ing? Who will win the sexyass tro­phies Dan Emery designed and Ponoko made?

You decide, and when you cast your vote and attend the awards, you’ll go into the draw to win some choice prizes from Wan­da Har­land, Super Very and more. In exchange, the Welling­ton­ista hope that you will make a dona­tion to the Down­town Com­mu­ni­ty Mis­sion, for the fol­low­ing rea­sons:

  • We love this city, right? And so there­fore, it is impor­tant that we actu­al­ly do good things for it, as well as talk­ing about it all the time.
  • We eat and drink to excess, and it’s awe­some that we cel­e­brate that, but it might be nice if we think about the peo­ple who have dif­fi­cul­ty eat­ing, or who have prob­lems with drink­ing.
  • Blan­ket Man was vot­ed Welling­ton­ian of the year last year at the Welling­ton­ista Awards. How about we give some atten­tion to the not-so-vis­i­ble home­less peo­ple?

But the good times don’t stop there, because we also hap­pen to have lined up one of the great­est New Zealand bands of all time to bring their spe­cial kind of mag­ic to the event. Don’t fight it, Mar­sha, because it’s big­ger than the both of us. That’s right — we’re pants-wet­ting­ly excit­ed to announce that Blam Blam Blam will be play­ing after the awards.

And if all that gets to be a bit too much for you, your atten­dance gives you the chance to win one of two Free­view decoders (with satel­lite install if required , so in the future you’ll be able to just stay at home with crys­tal-clear tele­vi­sion recep­tion. Hur­ray!

To make sure you can join us, please make sure that you email the.wellingtonista@gmail.com before the event with your name, and also get there before 7.30pm, oth­er­wise we can’t guar­an­tee you’ll fit! Reser­va­tions are now closed, so if you got on the list (if you emailed before today, you are), you need to be there by 7pm to ensure you make it in. And if you’re not on the list, it’s first-in-first-served from 7pm onwards. But we would tru­ly tru­ly love to see you there, so even if you don’t book, or you have to get there lat­er, come along.

And if you real­ly can’t join us, don’t go all emo: the par­ty will be record­ed for a spe­cial end-of-year edi­tion of Pub­lic Address Radio, which will air on Radio Live.

Thanks to our won­der­ful spon­sors: