We like to play games

You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you some­where, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then […]

Webstock directions: rock out, tweet up

We’re not going to both­er telling you about Web­stock because a) you should already know all about it and b) there was only one tick­et left as of this morn­ing (although there are still tick­ets to the ONYAs avail­able, so get on that. Instead, we’re going to tell you about two related events that we […]

TAWA5 Best Late Night Experience

Things get a little dif­fer­ent in town once the sun goes down. For many, includ­ing us, this is the best time of day. What do we do in the dark­ness? Well that would be telling, but these are the places you’ll find us.

All about this year’s The Annual Wellingtonista Awards

Hello, my love­lies! For the fifth year in a row, it’s time for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (#TAWA5). This post is your guide to everything TAWA-related. Time to get your vote on since VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

Jewels of Whitireia

On Thursday night the Annu­al 2010 Whitireia Stu­dent Con­tem­por­ary Jew­ellery Auc­tion will be held at Mighty Mighty with Nation­al Radio presenter Kim Hill con­trolling the ham­mer as auc­tion­eer. Donated con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery is being sent from all over New Zea­l­and for the event includ­ing pieces from con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery prac­ti­tion­ers Peter Deck­ers, Mat­thew McIntyre Wilson and Owen […]

Mighty Mighty jobs for you bar tending types PLUS this weeks gigs

This via the Mighty Mighty Face­book group

Heya Kid­dos!

Mighty Mighty is look­ing for part time glassies and bar­tenders, gotta cut the gravy. Con­tact us at mightymighty@xtra.co.nz or drop into the bar.

Also while I am at it 😀 Come pop in for some super times @ The Mighty 😀

A Word From El Capi­tain Richo and The Mighty Morph­in Power Rangers!

They also give us the low down for the week ahead – read on …

Maximum Joy Number Two

Disk-jock­eys Long­boss and Name return to Mighty Mighty for anoth­er night of dizzy disco heat this Fri­day with MAXIMUM JOY #2.

MAXIMUM JOY!! is night to cel­eb­rate left­field disco, Balear­ic soft rock, post­punk and elec­tro­funk: music to boost your mind, ass and soul to cos­mic new heights.

Through the year, Name and Long­boss toil tire­lessly to source the hot­test, most bent-up byproducts of the disco era and today. Using extra sens­ory intel­li­gence, they bring MAXIMUM JOY!! to Wel­ling­ton.

MAXIMUM JOY NUMBER TWO: Fri­day 2 Novem­ber at Mighty Mighty, 9pm till late. Dress to impress, not sup­press…

Swiss on Wry – Saturday at Mighty Mighty

As the new­est mem­ber of the glit­ter­ati set col­lo­qui­ally known as Los Wel­ling­tonis­tas, I would like to draw read­ers’ col­lect­ive atten­tions to one of this week­end’s music­al high­lights:
Lone­some Cow­boy Wan­der­er Delaney Dav­id­son, formerly of Switzer­land (via Christ­ch­urch), returns to New Zea­l­and to share his prim­it­ive rock ‘n roll folk with Wel­ling­ton.
This Sat­urday night the Mighty Mighty hosts Delaney, his lap­steel, and his friends the Wrong­do­ings of Wel­ling­ton County, and Wair­ar­apa Wolf­man Boss Christ.
Delaney was the NZ mem­ber of Pan-European cab­aret nois­enik folk­sters the Dead Broth­ers, once described as “more or less what’s left of a sym­phony orches­tra after their car crashed”. The Wrong­do­ings are a twis­ted coun­try four­some; and Boss Christ is a spec­tac­u­lar half-man, half-wolf, all-blues, prim­it­ive dynamo.
Sat­urday 26th Octo­ber, 9pm at the Mighty Mighty
$10 entry

See you there!

Mighty Good Times

This new­bie mem­ber of the Wel­ling­tonista was beaten to punch when it came to report­ing on the glad-wrap­ping record attempt at the Mighty Mighty. How­ever I thought I would add my two cents worth about the night and the over­all friend­li­ness of the Mighty Mighty for the female solo trav­el­er.

 First off, why was I head­ing into the night to be mum­mi­fied in the first place? Well some­times you have the kind of week where you wish that someone would render you mostly immob­ile by glad-wrap­ping your arms to the side of your body. While this does present tech­nic­al dif­fi­culties when it comes to drink­ing beer, it does keep your hands off the key­board for awhile! The exper­i­ence reminded me some­what of Tokyo morn­ing rush hour trains, the term “sushi zume” packed like sushi seemed pretty apt as the final cir­cu­lar wrap was made around 41(?) people. The chances of being groped were about the same (you might be sur­prised how cre­at­ive some people can be even with their hands firmly wrapped to them­selves) but there were few­er suits and more hip­pies and smiles on this love train. Oh and free jager­meister.

A Mighty Mighty Mighty Weekend

Not only is The Mighty Mighty one of our favour­ite bars, what with its endear­ingly gauché fit out and enter­tain­ingly gauché barstaff and wot-not, but this week­end they host two very excit­ing (and very dif­fer­ent!) gigs.

Mëstar are tour­ing their recent album Shut The Squiz­wot Factor­ies Down and on Fri­day night (the 20th) they play at Mighty Mighty with Hot Swiss Mis­tress:

(Sorry for the stink photo of the gig poster but it was the best I could do with my phone-cam­era on the way to work this morn­ing.)

And then, on Sat­urday night (the 21st), at the start­ing time of 9pm is the avant-punk the­at­rics of Mr. Sterile Assembly, with Xenu and Thee Stra­pons: