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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