We’ve writ­ten about UP’s Blog­gers Pre­dict event before, but this time, I’m one of the peo­ple doing the pre­dict­ing on Jan­u­ary 28 from 5.30pm to 8pm. I’m sup­posed to be mak­ing pre­dic­tions in the fol­low­ing areas:  

• Gad­gets & Games
• The Inter­net, Web 3.0…
• Busi­ness & Tech­nol­o­gy
• Wellington/NZ/the Uni­verse (open slather)

I’m allowed (and encour­aged) to solic­it sug­ges­tions, so have at it in the com­ments and I’d encour­age you to focus on Welling­ton-ish sug­ges­tions in par­tic­u­lar, since I’m rep­re­sent­ing the Welling­ton­ista, after all. Oh, and make sure you reg­is­ter to come along to the event, there’s FREE BOOZE and food, and you’ll be done by 8 so you can go along to any oth­er events that might be hap­pen­ing that night after­wards. 

The Uni­con XV has been in town since the 28th of Decem­ber, with one wheel­ers dec­o­rat­ing the water­front and what feels like the whole damn inner-city, sav­ing us from that ghost town feel over the hol­i­day peri­od.  The Welling­ton flickr pool and the papers have been packed with pho­tos of the action.  There is some­thing pret­ty pho­to­genic about the sheer range of uni­cy­cle enthu­si­asts of all nation­al­i­ties that have decend­ed on our fair (but windy) city.

Today is your last chance to check out the action, the Best Trick Con­test will be held out­side Mac’s Brew­ery Bar at 2.00pm weath­er per­mit­ting.  

See you down there.  

Syd­ney Fes­ti­val : Kora @ Becks Bar, Hyde Park Bar­racks Muse­um — 19th Jan­u­ary, 2008 (Pho­to © 2008, Joel Court­ney)

Bloody hell this is going to be intense!  One show only this Fri­day.

Last time I saw Kora play I was in field at Par­i­ha­ka and the earth moved, in fact the earth pos­si­bly got packed down too hard to grow grass for awhile, due to hun­dreds of peo­ple jump­ing and writhing in uni­son.  Way to freak the sheep man.

More after the jump.

Remem­ber this guy and all of those drums? (Inci­den­tal­ly, all of those drums will be turn­ing Kora up loud this Fri­day). 

Or per­haps you remem­ber him as that crazy, sexy, cool guy play­ing veg­eta­bles at Fringe last year (win­ner Best Music and Best Solo Show at 2009 Fringe Fes­ti­val).

Adam Page is back at Down­stage this Sun­day along with three more sax­o­phon­ists, as the Adalaide Sax Pack, fea­tur­ing some silky vocals from Welly’s Lisa Tom­lins (Shapeshifter, Fat Fred­dy’s Drop, Rhom­bus, Trin­i­ty­Roots).

Billed as:

4 world class Sax­o­phon­ists, 1 HUGE quar­tet sound, stacks of the cheesi­est music you know you love but choose to hate.

This girl is look­ing look­ing for­ward to the cheezy ’80s cov­ers and being a vocal mem­ber of the rau­cous fun-time crowd.

Come along, it isn’t that expen­sive and will be down­right fes­tive (in a good way).

Details and a taster after the jump.

 So recent­ly we asked you where you would drink Mon­tana’s new-label Sav Blanc, and you told us. The randomizer.org threw the num­bers 2 and 8 at us, so con­grat­u­la­tions to Cat and Mar­shall. If you could please send an email to johubris at gmail with your address, I’ll get your wine out to you. Cheers!

Peo­ple say, some­times with even a hint of con­cern in their voic­es, that we at the Welling­ton­ista are over­ly con­cerned with drink­ing.

And it’s true. We are very con­cerned. In fact we’re writ­ing now to warn you about an upcom­ing event that may well involve some drink­ing. What’s worse, it’s the the sort of thing attend­ed by the Boys Your Moth­er Warned You About and the Girls Your Father Snuck Looks At When He Thought Your Moth­er Would­n’t See.

Not that we want you to wear your­selves out before the T4WAs on Thurs­day, but we thought it would be only fair to tell you that Enjoy Gallery is hav­ing a cut-price art bash in time for Christ­mas. 

One hun­dred and twen­ty five dol­lars or less for a nice piece of what you fan­cy at the annu­al Enjoy gallery art sale, fol­lowed by the “unof­fi­cial Welling­ton X‑mas ART BASH”: X‑mas par­ty at Watusi.

What: Enjoy gallery’s annu­al art sale Buy Enjoy (details of artists on the face­book invite)
When: Tues­day 15 Decem­ber from 6.00pm
Where:  Enjoy Gallery on Cuba (map) and after par­ty at Watusi (map)