Wel­ling­ton music­al col­lab­or­a­tions are so hot right now, with the pulsing funked out drama of Eru Danger­spiel cram­ming more than 15 musi­cians and a damn choir onto the stage at the Town Hall last night and Rhi­an Shee­han’s out­stand­ing show at the Opera House in June it seems that being all lush and orches­tral and big is, well, big.  The spores of cer­tain Welly super-groups can be found in base­ments all over Wel­ling­ton col­lab­or­at­ing on new pro­jects, get­ting back togeth­er with each oth­er, going solo again, it is bloody hard to keep up!

Those Twin­set boys seem to be slut­ting it all over town and War­ren Max­well has man­aged not just to mix it with NZSO (as Little Bush­man) but plan a couple of shows with a reformed Trin­ity Roots and work on new mater­i­al with Strike Per­cus­sion.

Phew.

A little taster of the full length show brew­ing between War­ren and Strike will be on offer at Down­stage this Sunday as part of the Sound­stage series.  There will also be some fresh rein­ter­pret­a­tions of Strike and Little Bush­man clas­sics (this girl is look­ing for­ward to see­ing what they can do with Cor­rupt Demean­or).  Looks like there may be anoth­er guest musi­cian spot too, so once again time to have a few less $5 flat whites and book tick­ets.

What: Strike Per­cus­sion and War­ren Max­well

Where: Down­stage theatre

When: Sunday 17 Octo­ber

Cost: $35

Image by Domin­ika Ziel­in­ska from a set of live rehears­al shots.