Author: Chrisana

Orientation 2010

Hey guys.

Below is the line up of Ori­ent­a­tion events this year, with thanks to The Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity of Wel­ling­ton Stu­dents Asso­ci­ation and the VBC88.3FM. Not just for stu­dents, tick­ets are also avail­able to the gen­er­al pub­lic. (For full dis­clos­ure: I had a hand in this years line up. I hope you like it!)

VUWSA 2010 ORIENTATION LINE UP

STEVE WRIGLEY, BEN HURLEY AND JAMIE BOWEN
Uni­on Hall
Tues­day March 2
Stu­dents $10/ Pub­lic $15 + book­ing fee
6PM

THE CHILLS
With sup­port from SECRET KNIVES and JOE BLOSSOM
Stu­dents $20 Pub­lic $30 + book­ing fee
Tues­day March 2
San Fran­cisco Bath House
8pm
*Tick­ets for this show also avail­able at undertheradar.co.nz

Anthony McCall Draw­ing with Light
Late night at the gal­lery w/ KazaamBLAM!!
Adam Art Gal­lery
Wed­nes­day 3 March
FREE ENTRY
OPEN UNTIL 9PM

HAWNAY TROOF
With sup­port from SETS and 47 DIAMANTES
Wed­nes­day March 3 2010
Mighty Mighty
Stu­dents $10/ Pub­lic $15 + book­ing fee
9PM
*Tick­ets for this show also avail­able at undertheradar.co.nz

THE GREAT DEBATE
Thursday MARCH 4
UNION HALL
$5 DEBATING SOCIETY $10 STUDENTS + book­ing fee
6PM

ALL AGES SHOW with STREET CHANT + NEVERNUDES
Fri­day March 5 2010
THE MOUNT STREET BAR – CAMPUS
FREE ENTRY
5:30PM

Ouch My Face & East Brunswick All Girls Choir

Hello! No time no blog. Hope you all had a good break. Just a quick note for those of us who are not attend­ing Cam­pus A Low Hum – there are a hand­ful of great side shows hap­pen­ing but these two Mel­bourne bands are definately my pick of the bunch after catch­ing them at Camp last year. Both are doing shows all over the coun­try, and a few all ages shows as well.

East Brun­swick All Girls Choir (Mel­bourne)

Wed 27th Jan, Dux De Lux, Christ­ch­urch
Fri 29th Jan, Wun­der Bar, Littleton
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Duned­in w/ Ouch My Face
Wed 3rd Feb, Mighty Mighty, Wel­ling­ton w/ Bat­rider
Fri 5th Feb, St Barn­a­bas Scout Hall, Auck­land, w/ Bat­rider, Ouch My Face and Nevernudes(ALL AGES)

Ouch My Face (Mel­bourne)

Thur 21st Jan, Mighty Mighty, Wel­ling­ton w/ Thought Creature
Thur 28th Jan, Good­bye Blue Monday, Christ­ch­urch w/ Nev­er­nudes and more
Fri 29th Jan, Franz Tor­mers Art Space, Christ­ch­urch w/ Nev­er­nudes and The Body Lyre (ALL AGES)
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Duned­in w/ East Brun­swick All Girls Choir and Nev­er­nudes
Thur 4th Feb, Whammy Bar, Auck­land w/ DHD­F­D’s and more Fri 5th Feb, St Barn­abys Scout Hall, Auck­land w/ Bat­rider, East Brun­swick All Girls Choir and Nev­er­nudes – ALL AGES
Sat 6th Feb, Happy, Wel­ling­ton

Kaldenbach:Exhibition

Just a quick note about an exhib­i­tion tonight (Tues­day Decem­ber 8th). Colin Kalden­bach – gig poster design­er extraordin­aire – exhib­its the best of his work from 2009 at SFBH, with a live set from Wel­ling­ton’s Kit­tentank.

Show­cas­ing posters fea­tur­ing bands such as Flip­per, Sons of Midas, Gay­wyre, The Pos­tures, The Ver­laines, Kit­tentank, New Tele­path­ics, New­town Street Justice and more . Prints, framed work and can­vas are avail­able for pur­chase. It’s free and there will be happy hour pri­cing all night. It kicks off at 6pm.

So if there’s a gig poster that has taken your fancy this year, you can either pick up a cheap good qual­ity print or go the whole hog and get a framed piece. There is some ori­gin­al one off work for sale as well. The exhib­i­tion will run for two days only, so get in there! You can view some of the posters avail­able here

Crocodiles

The dark side of the Cali­for­nia sun is about to shine on us as San Diego duo Cro­codiles begin a series of shows in NZ this week– kick­ing off at SFBH this Wed­nes­day Decem­ber 2nd with sup­port from Wel­ling­ton swamp-disco legends Thought Creature.

For the unini­ti­ated, Cro­codiles songs began sling­ing across the Inter­webs after No Age named the band’s song “Neon Jesus” as one of their Top Ten shred­ders of 2008. Unpromp­ted, the for­ward-think­ing Fader Blog pos­ted two more stun­ner tracks, ’I Wanna Kill’ and ’Sum­mer of Hate’. The influ­en­tial Ste­reogum named them “Band to Watch” and described them as “The Vel­vet Under­ground swinging Jesus and Mary Chain.”

Cro­codiles’ homet­own San Diego is a sleepy mil­it­ary town, stuck between Tijuana and the bright lights of Los Angeles, but it isn’t Surf City, USA. Hells Angels, jocks, drug cas­u­al­ties, and the med­ic­ated rich pop­u­late the beaches, and while war­planes rumble in and out of the nav­al base. The kids here are bored. Charles Row­ell and Brandon Welchez played in vari­ous bands (includ­ing The Plot to Blow Up The Eif­fel Tower who played some mem­or­able shows here in 2005) before the duo struck out on their own as Cro­codiles. They quickly self-released a 7″ single and used it as an excuse to escape their tarpit homet­own. Cro­codiles album ’Sum­mer of Hate’ is born of the ali­en­a­tion and frus­tra­tion fuel­ling their ini­tial pair­ing.

Pre­s­ales for this show are a ridonku­lous $23 for an inter­na­tion­al act, avail­able from our friends at Good as Gold, Real Groovy and undertheradar.co.nz. But act now and you shall receive a double pass for the even more ridonku­lous price of free!

Kia Ora

Hello dear read­ers of the Wel­ling­tonista!  This is just a quick note to say hello to you all, as I have recently been envel­oped into the fold (?) and will now be inform­ing you all of upcom­ing events I think are worth your time via this here blog.

A little about me – I work for The San Fran­cisco Bath House, and also pro­mote oth­er shows across this fair city (i.e. at oth­er bars). Usu­ally I have a good deal of insider info regard­ing tick­et sales, sup­port bands, rumors of upcom­ing acts and gos­sip in the form of unusu­al rider requests and stor­ies of bad beha­viour and debauch­ery that inev­it­ably go down when people + music + liquor come togeth­er. All to share with you!

There are a couple of gigs need­ing spe­cial men­tion com­ing up, but I will post on those sep­ar­ately soon…

Nice to ‘meet’ you all, and thanks to the Wel­ling­tonista team for the warm wel­come.