Many Welling­ton­istas have already dis­cov­ered the good­ness that is Kazu: an oasis of dark wood, mind-bend­ing rice-based bev­er­ages and unmen­tion­able innards on sticks, taste­ful­ly hid­den away from the Courte­nay hordes. In the unlike­ly event that beef tongue and chick­en car­ti­lage aren’t enough to tempt you up the stair­case, Radio Active’s The Jew­el School will be blend­ing their down­beat grooves with Kazu’s siz­zling yak­i­tori and intox­i­cat­ing sake. The first of the series kicks off tomor­row night (May 6th).

If The Jew­el School’s playlist does­n’t seem Kiwi enough for NZ Music Month, then The Trans­mis­sion at Bode­ga tomor­row after­noon and evening might be more up your alley. It’s a live record­ing for Nation­al Radio, fea­tur­ing inter­views and pan­el dis­cus­sions that will be broad­cast, web­cast, prob­a­bly pod­cast and maybe even sur­f­cast. Oh, and did I men­tion the bands? Minu­it, Recloose, Ryan Preb­ble, Grayson Gilmour (of So So Mod­ern) and a sub­stan­tial sub­set of Phoenix Foun­da­tion per­form­ing in var­i­ous per­mu­ta­tions (can’t those damn Welling­ton musos just choose a band and stick to it?). DJ Alpha­bet­head will cre­ate “a very spe­cial Kiwiana mash-up of records from the RNZ Vaults”, which sounds either great fun or total­ly scary, and will prob­a­bly be both.

Record­ing starts at 2pm, with bands from 4pm. There’s appar­ent­ly no sched­ule to show when spe­cif­ic acts will per­form, which is pre­sum­ably to stop per­verts (you know who you are) just turn­ing up for Minu­it to see what Ms Carr is almost wear­ing. It also make it hard to tell whether there’ll be time to make it to this and The Jew­el School for an even squishi­er mash-up. In any case, both events are free (yes, f‑r-e‑e), so you can save your mon­ey for the Sta­mi­na Chick­en Com­bo: hearts, “soft bone”, liv­er, giblets and kim­chi (uggh: veg­eta­bles!)