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: