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 […]