The Dead C are coming to town

... as noted on The Wellingtonista.

Drinking and eating and rocking and rolling

Over on the Wellingtonista, I wrote about Negroni cocktails, free gigs at the City Gallery, and Aro Community Fair.

Now. On also on this Friday night March 23th, The Stumps are playing at Happy with our friends Zombie Fuck! and Public Toilet Ltd.



There's plenty happening, yes there is...

Comets on Fire and Birchville Cat Motel

Last night, as mentioned, I went to see Comets on Fire. They ruled. They were really, really great.

Birchville Cat Motel opened, and was fantastic too. People danced, which is not normal. I mean, it's not not-normal to dance, but it is at a BCM show. Here's a bunch of pics. (Click on the images to view a much larger version which opens in another tab/window):



Also, here's a couple of shots of Comets on Fire, taken from behind the soundboard (the sound was much better there):



These are from the end, when Campbell Kneale (BCM) was jamming with them -- you can see him over on the far-left of the stage (our right).

No, you are correct -- there weren't very many people there. This surprised me a lot.

Ginga bullshit

New Zealand popular culture continues its slide into Macca & Ridgie hell...

Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma: Wed 14th March

I have joined the staff of the Wellingtonista website; fun times beckon. As I mentioned in my introduction, I'm looking forward to the challenge of making much more sense about many things much more of the time.

My first post was about the Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma gig at St. Mary of the Angels on Wednesday night, 14th March.

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the show, because I am going to see Comets on Fire the same night. To be frank, I love that all this fantastic music is coming through Wellington at the moment, but i really, really hate when shows collide like this.

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Best searches bringin' in the punters:

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skinny dipping (image search, not particularly NSFW)
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taggart theme (ol' faithful)
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NP: Soon Clyde

Thursday night: Noise/drone/rock extravaganza

Black Boned Angel::1/3 Octave Band::The Stumps::Spiers/Weeks Band

8.30 PM, Thursday 8th March, Valve bar and grill, Vivian St. Wgtn NZ...

Friday nite: Motorik ' ' dance party ' '

Party Like It's 1971 presents: Motorik
progressive German music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s... ich bin der Kapitaen und Sie sind meine Weibchen...

This event is part of the Berlin Bonanza at The Mighty Mighty in March.

Holy crap, Comets On Fire are coming to town!

Oh man, this is going to be so fckn sweet. I love this band. If you're not familir with their work, I have in the past ad with some success described them as Cream meets Fushitsusha; that seems to do the trick. Download Punk describes them as "dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of Blue Cheer, High Rise, James Williamson, and a shit-faced-drunk Brian Eno-era Roxy Music" and promises "methamphetamine and Schnapps-drenched lullabies takin' it straight into a sonic shit storm, shifting from 4/4 power-rock to imploding free-form".

From the promoter:

"" Ethan Miller and Ben Flashman formed Comets on Fire (wiki) just prior to the turn of the century in the drug-infested hippie town of Santa Cruz, California. Their original intent was to create a rock group free of commercial pretensions or genre trend; one that simply dealt in pure bombast, attack, overwhelming distortion and chaos, and yet possessing a shameless love for anthemic choruses, shattering hooks and riffs, and the smoke and magic of yesteryears' rock and roll iconoclasts. They now number five members, and live and work in San Francisco and Oakland, but have retained their original directive -- harnessing the most crucial elements of freeform classic rock, AM gold, and the never-ending, occasionally psychotropic possibilities of their combined instrumentation. ""

Support from Birchville Cat Motel.

Comets on Fire
San Francisco Bath House
Wednesday 14 March
$30 (+ booking fee) pre-sales from Real Groovy and TicketDirect

Here is the official Comets On Fire site (which unfortunately seems to be down at the moment).