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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!