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For the last few weeks there’s been an air of rockin’ excite­ment passing around Cap­it­al City… and lots of flights being booked down here from that place up north that houses the Auck­land­ista. Remin­is­cing on social net­work­ing sites has reached a fren­zied peak and the rumours have been proved true – the Has­sel­hoff Exper­i­ment are reform­ing for a once-only show this week­end in Wel­ling­ton.
More after the jump.…

The ‘Hoff star­ted out in Wel­ling­ton in the ’90s, moved to Auck­land, played on the back of a flat­bed truck as it drove through Orewa, put out 3 records (1 on front­man Andrew Tolley’s label Kato, the oth­er 2 on our beloved Fly­ing Nun), made some killer videos with the Back of the Y boys and gen­er­ally just ruled all over all the oth­er noisy rock that came out of the grunge dec­ade. After going their sep­ar­ate ways the two­some con­tin­ued to make music else­where – most not­ably drum­mer Brendan Mor­an in Knife Fight (Wgtn) and gui­tar slinger Tolley in the Bloody Souls (AK), but a spe­cial birth­day request has seen them get togeth­er for the first time in years (maybe even a dec­ade?) to play this Sat­urday at the Adelaide on Adelaide Rd.
Joined by anoth­er band that has­n’t played in a while – the cave­man-cloaked Voo­doo Sav­age and His Sav­ages – and Auck­landers Golden Axe, the Has­sel­hoff Exper­i­ment will be show­ing their chops in front of an excit­able crowd – this from the Face­book events page pretty much sums it up:

“YAY!!! We gonna party like it’s 1999!!! Except I’ve giv­en up drugs, I now don’t drink as much, I get pain­ful twinges in my back when I per­form simple dance moves and I’ll prob­ably have to get up early the next day to per­form par­ent­al duties. But apart from that – we gonna party like it’s 1999!!! F*CK YAY THE HOFF!!!”

If you saw them in the ‘olden days’ it’s a chance to revis­it your youth (with earplugs), and if you missed out then do your­self a favour and see what all the fuss is about. It’s going to rule.
To get you in the mood you can watch the 2 vids made for them by the Back of the Y team (who, incid­ent­ally, have a new series start­ing on C4 next week – or the week after, the C4 web­site isn’t very help­ful) on the Amp­li­fi­er web­site here
See you there!