There’s a lot on in the cul­tur­al cap­i­tal tonight but my com­plete­ly biased pick for the evening’s enter­tain­ment has to be Loudon Wain­wright III at the SFBH.

Sup­port­ed and accom­pa­nied by one of his daugh­ters, Lucy Wain­wright Roche (half sis­ter to the more famous Rufus and Martha), Wain­wright is bring­ing his singer-song­writer folk-rockin’ gui­tar to our shores on the back of last year’s album Strange Weirdos: music from and inspired by the film Knocked Up. Yep, not only did Loudon III sup­ply the music for the movie’s cre­ator, Judd Apa­tow (who made Freaks and Geeks, so he must be cool), but he also act­ed in the movie — play­ing a gyne­col­o­gist.

Wain­wright’s most famous for songs like ‘Dead Skunk’(1972) but along­side his musi­cal career his act­ing has been tick­ing along for some time; the two strands suc­cess­ful­ly mar­ry­ing when LWIII played singing sur­geon Capt. Spauld­ing in M*A*S*H.

Intrigued? I am. And in the inter­ests of full dis­clo­sure: my band, the Wrong­do­ings, will open for Loudon tonight, on the eve of our Auck­land debut at Ladyfest ’08.

Doors open at 9, tick­ets avail­able from Tick­etek, Real Groovy or on the door at San Fran­cis­co Bath­house.

CUNNING LINGUISTS: if you can tell me what it’s called when you add a “III” to your name I’ll be dead impressed either at your lin­guis­tic knowl­edge or your mad google skil­lz — the clos­est I could get to it is that it’s some form of pronom­i­nal suf­fix. And it’s dri­ving me crazy.