What to do, what to do

Looks like Friday night (25th August) is well sewn up if live music is your desir du coeur.

The hipsters will be well sorted at Bar Bodega with the return from afar of ex-Two Lane Black Top guitarist Pip Brown and her band Teenager, which also features Oscar out of Letterbox Lambs on drums. Support is in the form of Pip's solo act Ladyhawke, as well as Charlie Ash, The Actualities and "Wellington's most awesome DJ" Sift. (more here on Scoop).

Meanwhile, over at Happy, bithday celebrations will be winding up with the biggest of the three-night party. Look out for Jeff Henderson's monstrous Deconstruction Unit, as well as the Not Quite Quiet Choir, The Pleasing Mummies, Alphabethead, and on into the night with a "wack funk party".

That'll take care of the pre-hipsters, the post-hipsters and the entirely-uninterested-in-hipsterismists; leaving pretty much sweet fuck all left to catch The Idle Suite and Starcruizer at The Adelaide. Which kinda sucks, because Starcruizer are one of the coolest and most entertaining bands around at the moment. And The Idle Suite and their twin-drummer-propelled post-rock endurances are not too shabby, either.