Well blow me down, the VBC is turn­ing two! Bra­vo! 

Not entire­ly sure how they’ve pulled it off but the radio sta­tion con­tin­ues to go from strength to strength (best lis­tened to stream­ing at www.vbc.org.nz  And they’re throw­ing a whop­per par­ty to coin­cide with VUW Ori­en­ta­tion 2009. 

See you at the Front Room TONIGHT (at 5 Hania St off Kent Tce) for the Dead C, So So Mod­ern, Rory Storm & The Invaders

All for a mere $15. Tick­ets on the door. 

CONGRATULATIONS guys! 

TVNZ has com­mis­sioned Wayne Youle to orches­trate an art work for an upcom­ing episode of New Art­land (host­ed by Chris Knox). Wayne’s idea for the work fol­lows on from his recent focus on New Zealand iden­ti­ty and the con­cept of turan­gawae­wae, which while specif­i­cal­ly relat­ed to Maori is a uni­ver­sal idea. We all as New Zealan­ders have a place or places that we link to phys­i­cal­ly and spir­i­tu­al­ly.

more after the jump…

The New­town Fes­ti­val is hap­pen­ing again, and you can find out more about it on their offi­cial web­site.. I am per­son­al­ly most look­ing for­ward the New­town Fes­ti­val Street Fair on March 8 — just a warn­ing — it’ll shut down most roads in the area. I remem­ber last year I’d had a pret­ty hor­ri­ble expe­ri­ence hav­ing to be in the Viaduct in Auck­land, and then I flew home hun­gover, lay on my bed, and could hear my band — the Phoenix Foun­da­tion play­ing just down the road in my sub­urb. <3

Some of us Welling­ton­istas make no bones about that fact that we suf­fer from a vari­ety of men­tal ill­ness­es, which is why we’re always pleased to sup­port peo­ple who are work­ing to sup­port the Men­tal Health Foun­da­tion of New Zealand. So we were real­ly encour­aged when we heard from Pete Bar­ton:

I am cur­rent­ly run­ning  a com­mu­ni­ty project to raise aware­ness of depres­sion and men­tal ill­ness in New Zealand and I would like to pro­mote a char­i­ty movie night on Tues­day 10th March.

Lars and the Real Girl will be screened at the Para­mount Cin­e­ma, Court­ney Place at 6.00 pm. I have some great spot and raf­fle prizes to give away includ­ing a $600 inter­is­lander fer­ry vouch­er.

Tick­et price is $20.00 which enters tick­et hold­ers into spot prize draw to win an inter­is­lander vouch­er. There are a num­ber of oth­er great prizes to be won from Bun­nings, Shoe Clin­ic Welling­ton, Bike Barn Welling­ton, Read­ing Cin­e­mas, Ben Lind Mas­sage Ther­a­py and Karori Sanc­tu­ary.

Pro­ceeds from the evening will go direct­ly to the Men­tal Health Foun­da­tion of New Zealand.

You may have seen the cov­er of March issue of Metro mag­a­zine. Madeleine Sami, hang­ing off the Sky Tow­er, look­ing all glam while hold­ing a minia­ture Peter Jackson/King Kong. “Auck­land rules OK! How Welling­ton’s los­ing the cul­tur­al wars” the head­line reck­ons. 

The Petone Fies­ta has gone from strength to strength, and this year looks like it will be a bit of a stun­ner.

The action kicks off at 6pm, 7th March, with the The Welling­ton Inter­na­tion­al Ukulele Orches­tra.

The Wool­shed Ses­sions also play, and if you fan­cy some­thing a bit loud­er to wag­gle your dags the Welling­ton Batu­ca­da will be out in force.

Check the full line up here.

Man, we haven’t had any Flight of the Con­chords for aaaages.

So, here ya go…

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