So here’s our man again…
So here’s our man again. This time I have a bit more information. His name is India Bharti (sounds suspiciously like Doderiol Fharti to me), and he is, without doubt the very best Bhartiphone player I have ever heard! No kidding. Of course, he is also the only Bhartiphone player I have ever heard, but […]
Busking 2006
I guess it’s the Fringe, or the Festival itself that brings these guys here, but this particular busker is well worth a look at. Today he was in Manner’s Mall. I could hear him a block or so away & the sound he was producing made me wonder if one of the theremins was in […]
Wellington Airport highlights package
For those of you who haven’t experienced the ‘thrill’ of landing at or taking off from Wellington Airport when there’s a decent breeze blowing, the video below will give you an idea of what to expect. Which is terror. Warning, video has annoying, irrelevant bad electronica soundtrack – we advise speakers off for this one.
lunchtime confrontation
We will admit it was the mention of a freely downloadable podcast commentary in this week’s Listener that drew us in. Some of us Wellingtonistas are more geeky than others. But given what seems to be the theme of the City Gallery‘s latest exhibition, Australian artist Patricia Piccanini‘s In Another Life (19 February to 11 […]
World, meet Cortina
As James pointed out yesterday, there’s a lot going on in Wellington at the moment. I don’t know about any of it, because I live in Auckland. But there is one particular upcoming Wellington event that I am aware of. Tomorrow night, Friday 24 February, much-lauded Wellington-via-Palmerston-North band Cortina will perform at Indigo alongside Disasteradio, […]
Links for Thursday, 23 February 2006
The latest Mystery Bay (up to #22!) is up over at WellUrban. Kate at myegoism wants some advice on the apartments in the Wellington Working Men’s Club building on Cuba St. Good or bad? And it looks like we might be seeing a return to some local welly telly, with the successful bods behind Auckland’s […]
Links for Wednesday, 22 February 2006
As both WellUrban and Oddity 59 (and now us) point out in their blogs, so much is happening in Wellington at the moment that it’s hard to keep track. What with the International Arts Festival, accompanying Fringe Festival, so called ‘fun‘ runs, fairs, concerts, ocean races (come and gone) and the occasional game of footy […]
Links for Thursday, 16 February 2006
Wanda Harland alerts us to this weekend’s Petone Fair. A good excuse, as she points out, to try the new Petone Ferry (which leaves from Queens Wharf, and thus leads us nicely onto our next post…) Dave5 has photos of the Volvo Ocean Race arriving in port (where they’re to be tied up down by […]
Synth Birds of Dawn: take two
Well, this particular Wellingtonista thought the Synth Birds of Dawn sounded great. Nic McGowan and his two fellow theremin players waved their arms about half an hours worth of other-worldy noise making early on Tuesday morning, creating sounds that at times sounded like the gibbon cries heard from the zoo in Newtown every morning, to […]
Links for Tuesday, 14 February 2005
They’re putting mental patients in Whitby. Whitby? As WellUrban points out: “…do they seriously expect a depressed person to get better in Whitby? I feel like topping myself after five mintues there.” [And here’s quite a good discussion on it on NatRad from this morning.] The Volvo Ocean Race yachts should be sailing into town […]