Island Bay Festival 2012

The 28th annu­al Island Bay Fes­ti­val kicks off tomor­row (Sat 11 Feb), with a heap of events and activ­i­ties planned for the com­ing week. All the favourite events are back: Bless­ing of the Boats, the parade down the Parade, Bands in the Park (fea­tur­ing Fam­i­ly Cac­tus, Ryan Preb­ble, Joe Blos­som, and New­town Sound and MC Israel […]

Island Bay Festival

As men­tioned ear­li­er in the week, the Island Bay Fes­ti­val kicks into gear this week­end. Tomor­row (Sat 11 Feb) we get some of the best stuff: a Street Parade (all wel­come — kids in cos­tumes are rec­om­mend­ed), Bands in the Park, and a new event which shapes to be a par­tic­u­lar favourite of ours: Pimp […]

Synth Birds of Dawn

Res­i­dents of Island Bay, do not be alarmed. Those weird, spacey tones rever­ber­at­ing around your sub­urb next week will not be sig­nalling the impend­ing inva­sion of Welling­ton by aliens, but will be, in fact, The Synth Birds of Dawn. Local composer/producer Nic McGowan is co-ordi­­nat­ing a three-piece theremin ‘band’, who will be locat­ed one-a-piece on […]