Music to brew your beer to

Wel­ling­ton on a Plate is well known for its exquis­ite din­ing, incred­ible bur­gers and inter­est­ing events and this year San Fran are put­ting on a fant­ast­ic series. Music2Brew2 brings togeth­er three Wel­ling­ton brew­er­ies who have been brew­ing under the influ­ence. Inspired by three Wel­ling­ton bands Pan­head, Gar­age Pro­ject and Tuatara have all brewed a beer that […]

The Phoenix Foundation – Mountain

The new Phoenix Found­a­tion track ‘Moun­tain’ (first single off their forth­com­ing album ‘Give up your Dreams’) and accom­pa­ny­ing video are very good. Enjoy. And head over to their web­site to get your hands on some of the fant­ast­ic look­ing lim­ited edi­tion cop­ies (12″ vinyl!) of the new album.

Review: the beautiful ones

Hana (Awhi­mai Fraser) was sent away from the club in dis­grace by own­er Mr Sir (Tanemahuta Gray). She prom­ises boy­friend, Ihia (Manuel Solomon), that she will return on a par­tic­u­lar night if he dances from dawn to dusk. But she is frightened by his fath­er Sir Sir, (Nath­an Gray) and unsure as to how she […]

New Zealand Fringe Festival

The New Zea­l­and Fringe Fest­ival is com­ing at you with their 25th year of excit­ing, fright­en­ing, amaz­ing, and puzz­ling works. As well as loc­al artists there are 39 out-of-town acts bring­ing their stuff to Wel­ling­ton. Prices are mostly under the $25 mark but the smart choice is to buy an Addict card. It’s only $15 […]

The Phoenix Foundation: Bob Lennon John Dylan

The new Phoenix Found­a­tion video is very good. That is all. (From the Tom’s Lunch EP, which you can listen to and buy over at band­camp).

Can it really be the end?

Well the Castle that Cares is on its last week and boy is there a line-up cel­eb­rat­ing the high­lights and the high-nights of the good ship Mighty Mighty. We’ve Wel­ling­ton­isata Awar­ded prizes there, we’re broken up, pashed up, made up, spewed up, chat­ted up, felt up and partied hard with the best of them. And […]

New Zealand Festival

The New Zea­l­and Fest­iv­al starts with this free event tonight in Civic Square. I’ve heard there will be more dan­cing than sit­ting so wear your dan­cing shoes. Also open­ing tonight – the Doc­tor Who Sym­phon­ic Spec­tac­u­lar, Deca Dance, Needles & Opi­um, and Our Broken Voice, plus the visu­al art exhib­i­tions. See you there!

Live Leader Board

      Here at the Wel­ling­tonista we’re firm faves of Richard Ain­dow – former edit­or of Fish Head magazine, and Quiz Mas­ter of Wed­nes­day nights at Mighty Mighty – so we were pleas­antly sur­prised to catch him out­side the Rogue & Vag­a­bond last night with a group of lycra-clad lit-up young ladies in incan­des­cent cos­tumes. […]

Craig Terris – The Hills of Song

Craig Ter­ris’s new music video (dir­ec­ted by Sean Dek­kers) for the second single off his Bleat your Heart Out album is a wee gem. Enjoy…

Drumming up support

In Wel­ling­ton, which con­tin­ues to be the cul­tur­al cap­it­al, no mat­ter what Auck­land might try to pre­tend, there are prob­ably a lot of con­ver­sa­tions to be had about Boos­ted, which was set up by the Arts Found­a­tion as a rewards-free Pledgeme, or anoth­er tax-deduct­­able Givealittle, except that they take a cut. Nat Tork­ing­ton’s thoughts might […]