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.