For those of you who haven’t experienced the ‘thrill’ of landing at or taking off from Wellington Airport when there’s a decent breeze blowing, the video below will give you an idea of what to expect. Which is terror. Warning, video has annoying, irrelevant bad electronica soundtrack – we advise speakers off for this one.
As James pointed out yesterday, there’s a lot going on in Wellington at the moment. I don’t know about any of it, because I live in Auckland. But there is one particular upcoming Wellington event that I am aware of. Tomorrow night, Friday 24 February, much-lauded Wellington-via-Palmerston-North band Cortina will perform at Indigo alongside Disasteradio, […]
The latest Mystery Bay (up to #22!) is up over at WellUrban. Kate at myegoism wants some advice on the apartments in the Wellington Working Men’s Club building on Cuba St. Good or bad? And it looks like we might be seeing a return to some local welly telly, with the successful bods behind Auckland’s […]
As both WellUrban and Oddity 59 (and now us) point out in their blogs, so much is happening in Wellington at the moment that it’s hard to keep track. What with the International Arts Festival, accompanying Fringe Festival, so called ‘fun’ runs, fairs, concerts, ocean races (come and gone) and the occasional game of footy […]
Wanda Harland alerts us to this weekend’s Petone Fair. A good excuse, as she points out, to try the new Petone Ferry (which leaves from Queens Wharf, and thus leads us nicely onto our next post…) Dave5 has photos of the Volvo Ocean Race arriving in port (where they’re to be tied up down by […]
Well, this particular Wellingtonista thought the Synth Birds of Dawn sounded great. Nic McGowan and his two fellow theremin players waved their arms about half an hours worth of other-worldy noise making early on Tuesday morning, creating sounds that at times sounded like the gibbon cries heard from the zoo in Newtown every morning, to […]
They’re putting mental patients in Whitby. Whitby? As WellUrban points out: “…do they seriously expect a depressed person to get better in Whitby? I feel like topping myself after five mintues there.” [And here’s quite a good discussion on it on NatRad from this morning.] The Volvo Ocean Race yachts should be sailing into town […]
I would have used some sort of pun based on the word ‘Hurricane’, but, well… Blues blown off park [NZ Herald] Second-half blitz blows Blues away [Dominion Post] Hurricanes storm to win over Blues [The Age] Hurricanes blow past Blues in opener [Sporting Life] Hurricanes storm home as newcomers face reality [RNZ] Gah! Anyway, the […]
As mentioned earlier in the week, the Island Bay Festival kicks into gear this weekend. Tomorrow (Sat 11 Feb) we get some of the best stuff: a Street Parade (all welcome – kids in costumes are recommended), Bands in the Park, and a new event which shapes to be a particular favourite of ours: Pimp […]
Residents of Island Bay, do not be alarmed. Those weird, spacey tones reverberating around your suburb next week will not be signalling the impending invasion of Wellington by aliens, but will be, in fact, The Synth Birds of Dawn. Local composer/producer Nic McGowan is co-ordinating a three-piece theremin ‘band’, who will be located one-a-piece on […]