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Orange Guy Last week saw the Vodafone New Zealand Music
Awards razzle and dazzle the musical glitterati at
Electoral Commission Auckland’s Vector Arena. The big winners of the
night were The Naked and Famous, Ladi6, Tiki Taane
and Brooke Fraser, each of which taking away the
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• Best Female Solo Artist: Ladi6
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• The Edge Best Pop Album: Brooke Fraser for Flags
Relationship status? • Best Alternative Album: The Naked and Famous for
I’m married to my job! Passive Me, Aggressive You
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Orange juice is usually my tipple of choice Liberation Of
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of youthful exuberance and democratic The Naked and Famous’ ‘Punching In A Dream’
participation. Mmmm… tasty! • Best Electronica Album: Tiki Taane for In the World
Any vices? of Light
Ad-vice? I’m big on that and you can’t shut me • Best Maori Album: Tiki Taane for In the World of Light
up when it comes to answering questions • Best Gospel / Christian Album: Parachute Band for
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First gig played? When and where?
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very first gig, which was pretty cool. • Highest Selling NZ Single: Brooke Fraser for
‘Something In The Water’
First gig in attendance? • Highest Selling NZ Album: Brooke Fraser for Flags
Well they don’t let me out much to be honest…
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artists and life coaches and you’ll get finishes up the second and final the country. Auckland’s Capitol, Brideway and
something like the newest comedy night of The Sleeping Beauty down Waiheke cinemas are all playing the selected shorts,
on the Auckland theatrical block, in Invercargill. It’s not the Disney along with Wellington’s Paramount, the Hollywood
Tartuffe. The production is playing at version, and it’s not exactly the Cinema in Christchurch and Rialto in Dunedin which
Q Theatre from Fri 04 Nov through to dark, horror-esque indie-house film all kick off this Thursday.
Sat 26 Nov. version. It’s the ballet version.

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The Checks kick off their nationwide tour as they Over 100 international and local bands, DJs and
celebrate their newest album Deadly Summer Sway. performers get together to the Circulation Festival
Wellington audiences are treated to two shows this down in Dunedin. Running for five days, the festival
Friday – first off at Zeal where the band will be playing has plenty to feast your eyeholes and earballs on with
an all ages gig before heading to Bodega to play for all art, live music, performance and more exciting junk
the grownups. that we’ll class under “miscellaneous”. Oh, mysterious.

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Another weekend, another nunloading of good The Fringe Bar hosts a night for The Longroom’s night of burlesque
quality gigs. F In Math and Alphabethead play at the love of pole. Can you spin on it? has mixed things up and moved
Golden Dawn in Auckland; HDU with guests Glass Can you swing on it? Can you hang to Friday. The likes of Miss Cherry
Vaults and Bevan Smith play at San Fran Bath House upside down with your legs crossed, Lashes, Foxie French, Trixxie Vixen,
in the capital; and down south The Bats celebrate squeezing tighter than your shoe Honey Dazzle and Miss V will be
their Free All The Monsters EP release in Dunedin. fillers have ever squeezed before? keeping your eyes fixed.

Onra Birds of Paradise Six60

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French beatmaker Onra heads to Auckland for a Dating is hard. There’s a lot of Six60 has added another gig to their
one off show at Khuja. The sound magician’s live awkwardness in unnecessary Auckland shows before heading
performance will be recorded live for Red Bull Music situations. But hey, at least you’ve got overseas. The band play Friday and
Academy Radio with a number of bombshells on the opposable thumbs. Birds don’t. This Saturday at the Powerstation – their
support bill such as Julien Dyne, Funkommunity, Side production shows how courting goes last shows before doing the regional
Steps Quintet and more. down in the ornithological world. New Years rounds.

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Saturday 12
Art in the Dark gig Berlin Burlesque
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It’s cool to have lights and a place to chill, but there’s Usually a lot of burlesque goes down in Auckland and
something missing. Like culture. Enter Art in the Dark. Wellington, so when a week of it turns up in Dunedin
The second year of the event promises a bunch of it’s a nice little treat. The Loons Circus Theatre is putting
family friendly entertainment using the landscape on Berlin Burlesque at Sammy’s, running through from
of the park. We’re rapt to see a contemporary light Wednesday through to Sunday. Sexy circus dancing on a
festival deliver across so many fronts. Saturday? There’s worse ways to roll.

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Heath Franklin’s Chopper The Big Night In

The Opera House Forsyth Barr Stadium

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Whether he’s mouthing off on 7 Days or working The Otago Daily Times is lighting up the Forsyth Barr
the right mix of abusive and cheeky, you’ll know Stadium this Saturday afternoon onwards. They’re
the ‘stache and the aviators. Famous for being calling it Coca Cola Christmas in the Park on speed,
someone else famous, Heath Franklin is bringing only without the carols. A wide array of performers
his most popular character Chopper to New from Dunedin and elsewhere are on the bill, as well
Zealand big cities and small towns, and takes the as ensemble performances and an impressively large
stage in the capital this Saturday. dance troupe.

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Auckland Retro Fair
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Alexandra Park Raceway
The fiery redhead songstress has It’s Beastwars’ last show before they
had a big 2011. She’s been on the head back to the studio. This year
road with Anna Coddington, found has been a big one for the band with 10am , $5, Door sales only
critical acclaim with The Adults plenty of awards and praise thrown
album and performances around their way, and no doubt they’ll be Retro fairs are great. It’s basically like an afternoon
the country and has been gigging going down in style at Wellington’s festival of op-shops and craftmarkets. So when
solo everywhere from the farmiest home of rock. Make sure that you get you see that there’s one going down at Auckland’s
of small towns to the skyscrapiest of your hands on some of that specially Alexandra Park Raceway with genuine retro goodies
cities. Julia Deans wraps up her mini brewed Hallertau Beastwars India from the ‘50s to ‘70s with over 30 stalls selling the
showcase of gigs down in Wellington Pale Ale before it becomes nothing likes of furniture, china, jewellery, fabric, records,
this Saturday. but a pale memory. collectables and whatnot, it’s worth checking out.

auckland art and culture Cesar Millan

Claudelands Arena
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wellington live music 1pm , $45-145, ticketek.co.nz

Oh man. Cesar Millan. That guy just walks into a room

dunedin all ages and controls the bitches. He’s the leader of the pack.
He tells the craziest dog in the world to be quiet,
christchurch film/tv and it does. He’s got a smile that warms middle-aged
divorced women’s hearts. He trained Cartman into
being a good boy. He truly is the dog whisperer.

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Australia’s favourite potty-mouth criminal parody is coming

to a town near you this November… and he’s bringing a mate.

Chopper doesn’t like journalists; we’re on his list of people who Chopper has been to the UK but Franklin tends to keep him to
can get fucked. When you’re told you’ve got interview time with him a Australia and New Zealand. “I found it was a really long way to fly to do
few things go through your head, like that he is going to eat you alive and a show for Australians,” he jokes. Franklin is looking forward to touring
then tell you to harden the fuck up. I was almost as nervous as that time New Zealand; we are a little less disruptive than our Australian cousins.
I shouted “west side” out in Whakatane. So when out-of-character Heath Occasionally, he says, there’s a guy or two who sit there and yell at the
Franklin answered the phone it was somewhat of a relief. No fucks, no stage. He’s also quite looking forward to taking some down time to see
bloodies and no shits, suspiciously polite Franklin’s grasp of the English the country – although he’s been here before, his schedule’s usually too
language was a lot more tame than his alter ego. demanding to get out and look around.
When you peel off the squiggly line tattoos and take off the handlebar This tour is Chopper’s A Hard Bastard’s Guide To Life and brings
mo, you get a rather anonymous Franklin. In Auckland for a brief stay Man Vs. Wild’s Bear Grylls to New Zealand (in alter ego form). Franklin
before doing the comedy laps in Queensland and coming back here for has brought him out to shows in Melbourne and Western Australia and
a fifteen-stop tour, the “regular dude,” Franklin told us about the man says they went real well. The tour looks anti-establishment with the
behind the crassness and how the international ambassador of hard was fucking around that has induced a “self-congratulatory, bargain-priced,
born. ”I used to do a Chopper sketch at (Macquarie) Uni and took it to a capitalist-induced anxiety wank-storm,” in its sights. It’s a 60 minute
Melbourne comedy festival,” he recalls. blow-by-blow guide on how to punch life in the guts, and it should be
Franklin says from that point, the TV executives leapt on it and gave well worth a visit to the provincial theatres for something other than the
him the opportunity needed to make the hard ass we all know. Everyone local high school’s annual interpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
has that mate that does that odd thing when they go out. “I used to be BYO moustache.
that guy running around as Chopper at parties,” he laughs. The idea
for Franklin came from watching the Eric Bana film “far too many WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER
times”. With the ‘real’ Chopper not giving too much away in reference
material, the inspiration for Franklin’s alter ego grew from a mixture of SEE HIM LIVE: CHOPPER
frustration and attention. Early on in Chopper’s ‘career’ working at The
THU 10 NOV GREAT LAKE CENTRE, TAUPO
Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Franklin found himself ignored by the backroom
SAT 12 NOV THE OPERA HOUSE, WELLINGTON
TV folk. When he pulled out Chopper to speak up they all laughed and
SUN 13 NOV TSB SHOWPLACE, NEW PLYMOUTH
applauded, and listened. “People listen to Chopper,” Franklin says. “You
get away with more than you usually would. Chopper is the best way to TUE 15 NOV CIVIC THEATRE, ROTORUA

get an immediate reaction.” WED 16 NOV FOUNDERS THEATRE, HAMILTON

Franklin met the real Chopper about six years ago and recalls it as THU 17 NOV AURORA CENTRE, CHRISTCHUCH
being awkward. “It was pretty weird. He’s a hard guy to get along with – FRI 19 NOV SKYCITY THEATRE, AUCKLAND
I think that’s the way he likes it.” SAT 19 NOV HAWKES BAY OPERA HOUSE, HASTINGS
Having an alter ego as a full time job can get a little confusing at times. SUN 20 NOV WAR MEMORIAL THEATRE, GISBORNE
Franklin says he finds himself and others dropping the f-bomb after TUE 22 NOV NELSON SCHOOL OF MUSIC, NELSON
shows. He also said there was one time where Chopper made his way WED 23 NOV MARLBOROUGH CIVIC THEATRE, BLENHEIM
into his head. “I had this dream that I was Chopper. It was pretty weird,
THU 24 NOV THEATRE ROYAL, TIMARU
walking round as him in my own head.” Franklin also likes taking a
FRI 25 NOV REGENT THEATRE, DUNEDIN
break from Chopper and hanging and talking serious (yeah I’ve seen him
SAT 26 NOV CIVIC THEATRE, INVERCARGILL
on TV too and thought that was shocking).

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Katherine Patrick is the operations manager for Art in the Dark – a
weekend-long installation of contemporary art held in Ponsonby’s
Western Park in Auckland. Patrick told Groove Guide about how Art in the
Dark came about, and what ’s in store for the event happening this weekend.

Like most great things, Art in the Dark was born out of a drunken up positions as a Sponsorship Manager – Joy Ramirez (babe) and a PR
conversation. I met Celia Harrison, then a student of spatial design at AUT person – Ella Mizrahi (babe). We’ve got a sexy new website, a volunteer
and now Art in the Dark’s Creative Director, back in the days when I still programme and all that amazing support all over again.
thought it was OK to wear fake glasses to house parties in Grey Lynn. There are returning artists from last year as well as a few fresh faces,
Celia wanted to run an event as her final graduate project and in all my and I’m once again simultaneously in awe and a bit jealous of the creative
faux-near-sighted earnestness I nodded on, impressed as she explained minds Art in the Dark attracts. (I’m reassured by Celia that how good
her research on catalysing community through participatory event I am at filling in health and safety forms more than makes up for the
practice. (Or I was soon to understand a little better once sober; making fact I’m so bad at art I can barely make a stickperson’s gender clear.)
sure, rather than just looking on, the public can get involved and go The best thing about being part of Art in the Dark is that it is crucially
beyond spectator status.) Adjusting my pointless spectacles, I mumbled collaborative. When great minds don’t think alike but find a common
a whisky-ed rhyme involving the words ‘park’ ‘dark’ and ‘art’ (which I ground they are passionate about, very good things happen. (Still. If
probably pronounced ‘ark’ for continuity’s sake). there was a competition for filling out health and safety forms, I would
I quickly learnt that Celia is the kind of person who gets stuff done. win. Just saying.) 2011’s line-up is already looking pretty flash. Here’s
One meeting later and all the clichés of cogs and wheels in motion a cryptic taster: we’ve got giant light-boxes, sea-mapping, live video
applied. A committee was gathered: Adelle Rodda as Environmental gaming, an acoustic western, glowing knitting, smoky rainbows and
Consultant (babe), Hannah Cooke as Media Manager (babe), Xanthe zooming wings to obscurely name a few.
Harrison as Graphic Designer (babe), I became the Operations Manager I’ve realised New Zealand is a decent place to get things off the ground.
(admirer of babes) and Celia was the enormous brain behind it all as There is a unique enthusiasm here that is hard to beat. Considering that
Creative Director (and of course, babe). all we started out with were a few bits of paper, big smiles and a promise
The event took shape. We wanted it to be local and so elected Western that we could make it happen, faith in us was maintained by everyone
Park as the host space. We then set the challenge of projects that had to and we were given a real chance. Now we’re part of an event that will
be eco-friendly and be stunningly illuminated at night, wanting to attract be sticking around for a while and eventually, we hope, evolve to be
a broad spectrum of artists from different disciplines. The formula as celebrated as similar happenings worldwide. This country is full of
worked. We made our way through the successful inaugural event last creative talent that deserves to be showcased and celebrated, and Art in
October by never having time to argue, being gratuitous with high fives, the Dark really likes doing just that.
making sure there were always snacks at meetings and throwing plenty
of launch parties.
It was a success and we were exhausted. Overwhelmed by local support,
we watched thousands of people potter through Western Park. Incredible
illuminated pieces were much admired as picnics were munched on the
embankments, kids ran happily riot and residents rediscovered a space
they’d forgotten. Projects ranged from a tiny, intricate city built into the
water fountain, to a giant glowing chandelier made of recycled milk bottles
suspended between trees, to sound installations that reverberated through Written by Katherine Patrick
the park’s ideally cavernous middle.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY LIA KENT
Celia’s genius prevailed and the committee has reformed to bring Art
in the Dark back to Western Park on 11 & 12 November. We want it to be Art in the Dark
Fri 11 Nov - Sat 12 Nov Western Park, Auckland
bigger and better and so the team has expanded to include such grown-

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Director Steven Soderbergh talks about the frightening
truths that went into his latest action-thriller about a
viral outbreak, Contagion.

There have been other movies about viral outbreaks. Did you feel Can you talk about shooting the movie in terms of the balance that
that the timing was right to make a movie like Contagion? you got between the big spectacle and the most intimate moments? 
Well, I guess we’re going to see. The only thing that might I was just trying to keep it very, very simple. That meant the entire
indicate that the timing might be good was my reaction to Scott [Z. film’s shot with two lenses, basically. And when I would look at a scene, I
Burns, screenwriter] proposing this, the reaction on the part of the would try to figure out how few shots I needed, as opposed to how many.
Participant [Media] when we went then to float the idea of developing I really wanted it to be, in terms of style, one of the simplest movies that
it, and the reaction from Warner Bros. when we presented them I’ve ever made. Often that can require more than just walking in and
the script. Everyone felt there was a place for an ultra-realistic film saying, “I’m just going to cover the hell out of this and I’ll figure it out
about this subject. Nobody hesitated. It all happened very quickly, later.” My approach was, “I really want to keep this simple and want
uncharacteristically quickly, actually, considering what the business is every shot to have a purpose and want every cut to have a purpose. I
like now for adult dramas. So that made me feel like maybe we were on don’t want any waste.” If you pulled one shot out, it meant something
to something. would be diminished. So, that was really it – eye-level, no crane shots, no
throwing the camera around.
How did your involvement with this project change your
behaviour? One of the reasons that you cast Jennifer [Ehle] was because you
I don’t know that my behaviour’s changed. I’m just really aware of it had seen her work that did not make it into the movie she was in.
now. I was handed some lip balm by one of the makeup people, which Can you talk about that?
I took a Kleenex and cleaned off, but who knows if that worked. So, I’d known who Jennifer was for a long time. And this didn’t take a lot
don’t get near my mouth. Having gone through it, I’m always going to be of thought, honestly. I have a somewhat long list of people that I’ve seen
conscious of it now. It was fun during the previews to watch the lights over the course of my career that I’ve thought, “Wow, they would be great
come up and 400 people realize that they’re next to a bunch of strangers to work with.” So I’m just glad that worked out.
and that they’ve touched everything. You could tell they weren’t happy. 
Did you know she would be able to handle the technical work that
Were there any conventions of the thriller genre that you were her character does? 
consciously avoiding with this film? I knew by her saying yes that she was willing to take a run at some
Yeah, the one rule that we had was we can’t go anywhere one of our very complex language. One of the most difficult scenes in terms of the
characters hasn’t been. We can’t cut to a city or to a group of extras that language in the movie, is the explanation when she says, “Okay, look, we
we’ve never been to, that we don’t know personally. That was our rule. know what it is now. The green part is this and the red part is that.” At
And that’s a pretty significant rule to adhere to in a movie in which one point we were shooting a scene and Ian [Lipkin, a consultant on set]
you’re trying to give a sense of something that’s happening on a large said, “Well, she should say that it’s morphologically-pathoneumonic.”
scale. But we felt that all of the elements that we had issues with prior, And I said, “I can’t ask another human being to say that.” There’s just
when we see any kind of disaster film, we’re sort of centred around that no way. But I was amazed that not only could she say it, she could say
idea – that suddenly you cut to Paris, where you’ve never been, and it as though she truly understood it, which, as a writer – and I’m sure
something happens. And it’s a bunch of people that you don’t have any everybody else up here feels the same way – when you have somebody
emotional engagement with. So, we were trying to have it be epic and who can do that, it means that your script can live. 
also intimate at the same time. That was rule number one. 

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Good Luck bar
Wed 09 Thursday Best Fortune: 4pm: free
Bodega
BeastWars: 9pm: $10

Bodega Hotel Bristol Good Luck bar

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Throw it to the Fire w/ The Kokomo Good Luck Saturdays
n t l i sting
Placid Saints & Glass Eye &
Mighty Mighty
w/ HypeasGus B2B Kev
eve
Fresh: 4pm: Free
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sting
the Carnies: 8:30pm: $5
iiii Festival: 8pm: $10
n t l i
El Horno
Chris Bryant Molly Malones
Matterhorn
Funkommunity Album
eve Thanks to
In Like Flynn Release Party: 11pm: Free
Good Luck bar
Wednesday Rice & Shine Mighty Mighty
w/ Yinface & Samu: Free MIGHTY MIGHTY TURNS 5:
Fri 11 4pm: $5 or free w/ costume
Matterhorn
The Session: 10pm: Free BATS Theatre Sandwiches
What Happened to the
Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15
Meow Techno: 11pm: Free
TV PARTY #3 w/ Shock Bodega
Futuro: 8pm: Free The Checks: $25
Southern Cross Southern Cross
Arvo Show featuring Recovery Sessions w/ the
Mighty Mighty Good Luck bar
Reptet: 4pm: Free Dreamers: 3pm: Free
Azphodel: 9:30pm: Free Easy Tiger w/ Ralphhimself, Izz
The Wizz & HypeasGus: 4pm: free
The Garden Club The Library
San Fran Bath House Julia Deans: 8:30pm: $20 Sunday Live Music
The Dauntless LAST Mighty Mighty
SHOW: 9pm: Free MIGHTY MIGHTY TURNS 5:
The Lido Cafe The Lido Cafe
Darren Watson & The Real Deal The Boptet: 7pm: Free
4pm: $5 or free w/ costume
Southern Cross Blues Band: 8:30pm: Free
Kroon for your Kai ft. Sandwiches
Danny Moon: 7pm: free Broken Soul ft. Tokyo
The Opera House
The Flying Burrito
Prose: 11pm: $10
Heath Franklin’s Chopper
in A Hard Bastard’s Guide Tue 15
Brothers to Life: 7:30pm
Southern Cross BATS Theatre
Carlos Navae Sol Sessions Amalagamatez: 9:30pm: Free Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15

Sun 13 Bodega
Thu 10 Sat 12 Tuesday Night Speakeasy - Swing
Dance Evening: 7:30pm: Free
Public Bar & Eatery
Bettys function The Sunday Jazz Club Good Luck bar
BATS Theatre
house & bar Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15 Cheerful Tuesdays: Free
The Digital Sisco: 10pm: Free

Otago gig guide

Wed 09 Thu 10 The Good Oil (Dunedin)
Acoustic Fridays
Whare Flat (Dunedin)
Circulation Festival: $140 + BF
Cadrona Hotel Opium Bar (Wanaka) Whare Flat (Dunedin)
(Wanaka) ASH & THE MATADORS - AN Circulation Festival: $140 + BF
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival EVENING ECHO Album Release
Tour w/ Jo Little: 8pm: Free Sun 13
Hoyts Cinema
(Dunedin)
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
(Dunedin) Sat 12 PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
(Dunedin)
Show Me Shorts Film Festival DANCES ABOUT LOVE:
Reading Cinema Debajo (Queenstown) 7pm: $15, $10
(Queenstown) Subculture Class In Session
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival (Queenstown) Whare Flat (Dunedin)
The SubStation: 9pm: Free Forsyth Barr Circulation Festival: $140 + BF
Red Rock (Wanaka) Stadium (Dunedin)
ASH & THE MATADORS - AN The Big Night Inn
EVENING ECHO Album Release
Tour w/ Jo Little: 8pm: Free Fri 11 PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Mon 14
(Dunedin)
Rialto Cinemas Fortune Theatre
DANCES ABOUT LOVE: 9pm: $15 Whare Flat (Dunedin)
(Dunedin) (Dunedin) Circulation Festival: $140 + BF
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival Regent Theatre
Late Night Improv (Dunedin)
Subculture Subculture
RNZB Presents: The
(Queenstown)
Dread Bass Wednesdays -
(Queenstown)
Sleeping Beauty
Tue 15
DJ Downtown Brown Subculture
Ping Pong Comp: 9pm: $5
(Sunshine Sound System) (Queenstown) Whare Flat (Dunedin)
& Turbohag: 9pm: Free Angel Delites: 9pm: Free Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

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auckland gig guide

Wed 09 Racket Bar
Cian & Isaac Aesili: 6pm: Free
Florrie McGreals
Franko: 9:30pm
Sales St
Page3, Mixtape Kidz,
Dee Why: 5pm: Free
1885 Basement Rakinos GBS Bar
Creative Jazz Club: Reuben The Drop: 8pm: Free Dean Te Paa: 8:30pm smith.
Bradley: 8pm: $10 DJ John Holmes: 8pm
Rising Sun Glen Eden RSA
Kings Arms Freaky Meat ‘Delicatessen’ Eddie Manukau: 8pm Snapdragon
Bic Runga & Guests: National Tour: 8pm: $10 Friday Night
8pm: $30 w/ b Card Glen Eden RSA
Sale St Kara Gordon: 8pm Tabac
Mexican Cafe Selecta Sam, DeeWhy: 6pm: Free REKKIT presents: Pikachunes,
Live Latin & Brazilian Ink She’s So Rad, $noregazZzm &
Music: 8:30pm: Free The Britomart Greg Churchill, Angela Fisken Heavenly Creatures: 9pm: $10
Country Club & Aaron Pony Club: 11pm: $10
Ponsonby Social Club Taye Williams: 6pm: Free The Britomart
The Circling Sun Band: 10:30pm Ink & Coherent Country Club
The Deck - SKYCITY Evil 9 (UK) Timmy Latin Aotearoa: 6pm: Free
Racket Bar DJ Manual Bundy & Guitarist Schumacher, Page3, Phillipa
Benn Morrison: 6pm: Free Dixon Nacey: 6pm: Free & Soane: 10pm: $10 The Crib
The Tall Poppies: Free
Rakinos The Kings Arms Juice Bar at the
Playing Up: 9pm: Free Soloman & Special Windsor Castle The Deck - SKYCITY
Guests: 8pm: Free Rock for Starship w/ DJ Thane Kirby & Percussionist
Sale St Blam Blam Blam & special Joe Box: 8pm: Free
Jason Eli: 6:30pm: Free The Mercury Theatre guests: 7:30pm: $25
Fly My Pretties IV: 7pm: $90 + BF The Elephant Wrestler
The Britomart Khuja Lee Gray Duo: 9pm
Country Club The Neighbourhood Shadowmovement: 10pm: Free
Lokey: Free Brewbar The Mercury Theatre
DJ Isaac Aesili: 7:30pm Khuja Fly My Pretties IV: 7pm: $90 + BF
The Neighbourhood #Jusayin Presents:
Brewbar The Thirsty Dog Onra: 10pm: $20 The Supper Club
Acoustic Wednesday Thirsty Dub, Ska & Underground Stylz w/ Dubby24
w/ Eli: 7:30pm Reggae: 7pm: Free La Zeppa ft. Vitamin K: 11:45pm: Free
DJ Selecta Sam
The Thirsty Dog The Wine Cellar The Thirsty Dog
World Famous Pub Quiz Bleeding View, Nomadic Snails Leigh Sawmill Cafe The Brood & The
w/ Sandy: Free & Poor You Poor Me: 8pm: $5 Birds of Paradise: 9pm: $42.50 Monotonics: 8pm: Koha

Union Post Brew Bar Lucha Lounge Trench Bar

Acoustic Guitar: 9pm: Free Earl Grey, Kadet & Fridays at Trench Bar: Free
Thu 10 Lamplight: 8pm: $5
twentyone
Vector Arena
1885 Basement Portishead: 7pm: $100 Mexican Cafe DJ Karn Hall & DJ Sample
2Five9 Jazz Trio: 10pm: Free Salsa Party w/ DJ King Gee: 8:30pm: Free
Salsa: 11pm: Free
1885 Britomart U.F.O
Andy JV: Free Fri 11 Neighbourhood
Brew Bar
Live@UFO: 9pm: $10

CrossRoads Bar DJ Lo Key & DJ Western Park

1885 Basement Killamanraro: 5:30pm Art in the Dark 2011: 8pm: Free
Singer/Songwriter Chip Matthews & Tido: 10pm: Free
Comp: 8pm: Free
New Brew
1885 Britomart Allegro: 8:30pm
Juice Bar at the
Windsor Castle
Preferential Treatment:
Nyntee & Andy JV: 8pm: $10 Northern Steamship
Sat 12
Derty Sesh: 9pm: $10
Basalt Trading Co
Khuja DJ Normski: 8pm
Jason Smith: 9pm
Shanalog Nature EP
Release: 8pm: $10 Brew On Quay Nuffield Street
Phil Stoodley Duo: 8:30pm
Trading Co. Brewbar
Leigh Sawmill Cafe DJ Tony Tunes: 6:30pm
Birds of Paradise: 9pm: $42. Canfly Studios Ponsonby Social Club
The Canfly Sessions: 7pm: $15
New Brew BPlus & Zane Tee
Maria Flaherty Duo: 5:30pm Cassette Nine Quay St Clubrooms
MUM Club ft. Dictaphone
Northern Steamship Acoustic Sessions w/
Blues & Beach Pigs: 10pm:
Trading Co Eli Guttenbiel: 7pm
$5 / $2 w/ b-card
Soundlounge ft. Eli
Guttenbiel: 6:30pm Coherent Racket Bar
Murray Sweetpants & Sweet
Bulletproof, Teknik, Pakage
Nuffield Street Mix Kids: 6pm: Free
& Incognito: 11pm: $10
Trading Co. Brewbar Rakinos
Acoustic Thursdays w/ CrossRoads Bar KANO: 10pm: $10
Waylon: 7:30pm Habana Noches w/ Cuban
Accent: 8pm: Free
Ponsonby Social Club Rising Sun
Anthesiac, Lion eyes, Grass
Occupational Therapy ft. Bobby De Post Cannons: 8:30pm: $10
Brazuka & TDK: 7:30pm Brett Polley: 7:30pm

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1885 Basement Racket Bar Western Lights The Marina
Bobby Brazuka: 11pm: Free DJ Sam E & Jerm: 8pm: Free Kara Gordon Band: 9pm Riqi Harawera: 1pm

1885 Britomart Rakinos Western Park The Windsor Castle

We Own The Night: 10pm: $10 POWER: The Battlecry Art in the Dark 2011: 8pm: Free Starlight Sundays: 5pm: Free
After Party: 10pm: $10
Black Salt Whammy Bar
Franko & James: 8pm Rising Sun Ricky Bobby & Reality Check

Brew On Quay
Ritual 001: 10pm: $10 Split Tour: 11pm: $10 Tue 15
Jason Skelton Duo: 9:30pm Sale St Wine Cellar 1885 Basement
DeeWhy, Dean Campbell: Andy Gibson, Ashley Noel
Creative Jazz Club International:
CrossRoads Bar 7pm: Free Hinton, Brendan Turner &
Cor Fuhler: 8pm: $10
Dirty Blues: 8pm: Free Callum Gentleman: 8:30pm: $10
Salvation Kitchen CrossRoads Bar
De Post Retro Vixens 3-By Day: 1pm: Free
Garage Daze: 9pm: Free
Mark Tronson: 8:30pm

Florrie McGreals
Shadows Bar
Jackal w/ The 7th Bed
Sun 13 Empire Tavern
Chemical, Halo of Ashes Empire Million Dollar Trivia
David Shanhun: 9:30pm
& Kittyhawk: 8pm: $5 Corelli’s Cafe & Bar Show: 6:30pm: Free
Sandpaper Tango: 6pm: Free
golden dawn one2one
Presence Magazine Snapdragon CrossRoads Bar Tuesday Open Mic: 6:30pm: Free
Issue #9 Launch ft. Saturday Night: 6pm
The Hospo Sessions : 3pm: Free
Watercolours: 5pm: Free
The Britomart Ponsonby Social Club
Herald Theatre Country Club Garrisons Beats, Eats & Co: 6:30pm
Cabaret Askew: 5:30pm: $28-$30 Cian, Lewis Tennant, Public House
RIA: 2pm: Free Andrew Mockler: 1pm Racket Bar
Code 107: 6pm: Free
Khuja Goode Brothers
NICK BARRATT, MOUGUI & MAVS, The Crib David Shanhun: 4pm Rakinos
TELEPATHY COUNCIL: 8pm: $5 Split Second: 10pm: Free
Acoustic: 5:30pm: Free
La Zeppa The Deck - SKYCITY Khuja
DJ Laura Lush: 8pm DJ Jason Eli & Percussionist 1 OUT 2 VS 2 BATTLE The Britomart
John Ellis: 8pm: Free TOURNAMENT: 3pm: 10 Country Club
Neighbourhood Laura Lush: 6pm: Free
Brew Bar The Kings Arms Ponsonby Social Club
DJ Andy JV DJ Normski: 3pm Flying Nun 30th anniversary Conch Sunday Grill: 5:30pm The Kings Arms
w/ HDU & The Verlaines: Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm:
New Brew 8pm: Pre-sales $22 Rakinos Free / MAINZ: KICK OUT THE
All The Way Live: 6:30pm: Free JAMS TOUR 2011: 8pm: Free
Lee Gray Duo: 8:30pm
The Mercury Theatre
Northern Steamship Fly My Pretties IV: 7pm: $90 + BF Sale St The Windsor Castle
Taye Williams, Selecta Open Mic Night w/
Trading Co Sam: 1pm: Free Kiwi FM: 9pm: Free
DJ Jason Kyle: 8pm The Thirsty Dog
Retro Vixens III w/ The Hollow
Point View School Grinders, The Stray Hearts, Wild The Britomart
iSwap Clothing Swap: 10am Bill & The Chronic Sideburn: 9pm Country Club
Lokey, Dylan C: 2pm: Free
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Quay St Clubrooms twentyone
The Deck - SKYCITY add y tings
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Acoustic Sessions w/ DJ Sample Gee & DJ General
Lee: 9:30pm: Free DJ Nyntee & Saxophonist
Jonny Love: 7pm
Lewis McCallum: 5pm: Free
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hamilton gig guide

Wed 09 Cubbyhole
Muso Jam Night
The Meteor
Flagons & Foxtrots
Redoubt Bar
John McGough DJ/Trumpeter

Cubbyhole Great Lake Centre Power House Karapiro

Cubbyoke Night (Taupo) Celtic Music Session

Event Cinemas
Heath Franklin’s Chopper
in A Hard Bastard’s Guide
Fri 11
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival to Life: 7:30pm

Hoyts Cinema (Te Awa) Huntly and District

Cock & Bull
Hayden Booth: 6pm Fri 11
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival Workingmen’s Club Hamilton Sierra Cafe (Taupo)
Huntly Jam Club
Workingmen’s Club The Nulkes
Marilyn Kingi & Friends
Static
Thu 10 ‘Live @ Static’ - MAINZ Kick
monkey feather
Static
Freaky Meat ‘Delicatessen’
Out The Jams Tour: 8pm: Free
night club National Tour: 9pm:
Cambridge Municipal New Blood club night: 10pm: free Door Sales: $10
Band Rooms Waikato Museum
Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band Musical Feast
Ngaruawahia RSA
Traffic Jam

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Sat 12 Tue 15 Wed 09 Darkroom
Magic Eye

Gallagher Academy Claudelands Arena Ashburton Trust Hollywood 3 Cinemas

of Performing Arts Hayley Westenra: Event Centre Show Me Shorts Film Festival
Diwali Night: 9pm: Free 7:30pm: $59.90 - $85 A Festival of Russian Ballet

Hamilton Gardens Cock & Bull Canterbury

Drum Circle Tuesday Trivia Agricultural Park
Canterbury A&P Show
Fri 11
Mole & Chicken
Restaurant Hoyts Northland Beck Southern Alehouse
Ukulele Jammin’ w/ Pumice Wattie’s Cans Film Festival Retrosonic
Valley Whoopee Band
Hoyts Riccarton Canterbury
Orca Restaurant Wattie’s Cans Film Festival Agricultural Park
and Bar Canterbury A&P Show / Smashbox
Unknown Peace Regent Ashburton
Wattie’s Cans Film Festival Pierside Cafe And Bar
Static Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand
‘Live @ Static’ - Frankie, Nick
Raven + Ghosts of Electricity: 9pm
Thu 10 Sat 12
Sun 13 Aurora Centre
A Festival of Russian Ballet Darkroom
Ipswich
Claudelands Arena Becks Southern
Cesar Millan: $45 - $145 Alehouse Pierside Cafe And Bar
The Black velvet Band The ANZACs

Canterbury
Agricultural Park
Canterbury A&P Show / Smashbox

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Sat 03 Dec Hastings Operatic Anglican Church Sat 04 Feb San Fran Bath
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Fri 09 Dec Community Arts Cathedral, Wellington Sun 05 Feb Playhouse, Nelson
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Tue 08 Nov Redcliff Cafe
Tue 06 Dec Knox Church, Dunedin
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Sat 07 Jan Whammy Bar, Auckland
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Upper Moutere Thu 15 Dec San Fran Bath
Thu 09 Feb - Mon 13 Feb 203 Coast
Sat 18 Feb The Mud House House, Wellington
Road, RD 1, Wainuiomata
Winery & Café, Waipara Fri 16 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland
Sun 19 Feb Logan Park, Dunedin
The Checks Tue 21 Feb Olssen’s Vineyard, Cromwell
Thu 23 Feb Villa Maria Farmageddon
Fri 11 Nov Zeal, Wellington (All Ages)
Estate, Blenheim Sat 03 Dec Waipu Cove, Waipu
Fri 11 Nov Bodega, Wellington
Sat 12 Nov The Royal, Sat 25 Feb Alana Estate,
Palmerston North
Thu 17 Nov Cabana, Napier
Martinborough
Sun 26 Feb Sentry Hill
The Fetish Ball
Sat 12 Nov The Venue, Christchurch
Fri 18 Nov Butlers Reef, New Plymouth Estate, New Plymouth
Sat 19 Nov The Shed, Rotorua Fri 02 Mar Vilagrad Winery, Hamilton
Fri 25 Nov Flow Bar, Hamilton Sat 03 Mar Villa Maria Estate, Auckland Fleet Foxes (US)
Sat 26 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Fri 13 Jan The Hunter
Auckland International Thu 01 Dec PBC, Gisborne
Cold Chisel (AU) Lounge, Wellington
Sat 14 Jan Auckland Town
Tattoo Convention Fri 02 Dec Illuminati, Tauranga
Sat 03 Dec Onewhero
Fri 02 Dec TSB Arena, Wellington
Sat 03 Dec Vector Arena, Auckland
Hall, Auckland
Sat 26 Nov ASB Showgrounds, Rugby Club, Onewhero
Auckland Sat 07 Dec YOT Club, Raglan
Coromandel Gold Flip Grater
Wed 23 Nov Mighty Mighty, Wellington
Beastwars Fri 30 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel
Sat 31 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel
Fri 25 Nov The Boat House, Nelson
Sat 12 Nov Bodega, Wellington Sat 26 Nov Star Tavern, Westport
Thu 01 Dec Penguin Club, Oamaru
Beirut (US) Creedence Clearwater Fri 02 Dec Chicks Hotel, Dudedin
Sat 03 Dec Food & Wine
Sat 14 Jan San Fran Bath
House, Wellington
Revisited (US) Festival, Christchurch
Sat 28 Jan Mills Reef Winery, Tauranga Wed 07 Dec Tabac, Auckland
Mon 16 Jan Powerstation, Auckland Sun 29 Jan Mills Reef Winery, Tauranga Thu 08 Dec The YOT Club, Raglan
Mon 30 Jan Ellerslie Sat 10 Dec Sawmill Cafe, Leigh
Berlin Burlesque Racecourse, Auckland
Wed 09 Nov - Sun 13 Nov
Sammy’s, Dunedin Chopper
Wed 01 Feb Bowl of Brooklands,
New Plymouth Fly My Pretties
Fri 03 Feb Trentham Thu 10 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland
Thu 10 Nov Great Lake Centre, Taupo Fri 11 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland
Racecourse, Wellington
Beyond The Black NYE Sat 12 Nov The Opera
House, Wellington
Sun 05 Feb Queenstown Events Sat 12 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland
Sat 19 Nov St James
Sat 31 Dec Trentham Centre, Queenstown
Sun 13 Nov TSB Showplace, Theatre, Wellington
Racecourse, Upper Hutt
New Plymouth

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 tours & events

Upcoming tours & events

Flying Nun 30th Jordie Lane (AU) Sun 27 Nov Cook Saddle
Cafe, Fox Glacier Raggamuffin 2012
Anniverary Tue 29 Nov The Wine Cellar, Auckland
Wed 30 Nov Biddy Mulligans, Hamilton
Tue 29 Nov Blue Ice Cafe, Franz Josef
Wed 30 Nov Chicks hotel, Dunedin
Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International
Stadium, Rotorua
Fri 11 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland
Thu 01 Dec Happy, Wellington Thu 01 Dec The Penguin Club, Oamaru
Fri 11 Nov Urban Factory, Dunedin
Fri 02 Dec Fairfield House, Nelson
Fri 11 Nov San Fran Bath
House, Wellington
Sat 03 Dec Le Café, Picton
Fri 02 Dec The Brewery, Christchurch
Rhythm & Alps
Sun 04 Dec Nor’Wester Café, Amberley Wed 28 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt
Sat 12 Nov Mighty Mighty, Wellington
Sat 12 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland
Tue 06 Dec The Church Café, Dunedin Madeleine Peyroux (US) Thu 29 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt
Wed 07 Dec Arthur St Café, Timaru Tue 06 Mar Town Hall, Auckland
Sat 12 Nov Dux Live, Christchurch
Wed 16 Nov San Fran Bath
Thu 08 Dec The Brewery, Christchurch
Rhythm & Vines 2011-2012
House, Wellington
Fri 09 Dec St Peter’s Hall, Paekakariki
Sat 10 Dec Eggsentric Café, Whitianga Mangawhai NYE Party Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec
Waiohika Estate, Gisborne
Thu 17 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 31 Dec Mangawhai
Sun 11 Dec Tabac, Auckland
Fri 18 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch Tavern, Mangawhai
Fri 18 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin
Julia Deans Rippon Festival
Fri 18 Nov San Fran Bath
House, Wellington Sat 12 Nov The Garden The Moody Blues (UK) Sat 04 Feb Rippon Vineyard,
Lake Wanaka
Sat 19 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Club, Wellington Sat 26 Nov Michael Fowler
Sat 19 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch Centre, Wellington
Sat 19 Nov San Fran Bath
House, Wellington Kaikoura Roots Festival
Sun 27 Nov The Civic Theatre, Auckland
Roger Waters: The Wall
Sat 19 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin Sat 14 Jan Old Beach Road, Kaikoura
Sun 15 Jan Old Beach Road, Kaikoura More FM Summer (US)
Wed 23 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin Sat 18 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland
Thu 24 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Vineyard Tour Mon 20 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland
Fri 25 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland
Fri 25 Nov San Fran Bath
Kate Bush Saved My Life Fri 03 Feb Sileni Estates, Hawkes Bay
Sat 04 Feb Brooklands
Wed 22 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland
Thu 23 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland
Wed 16 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland
House, Wellington Lawn, New Plymouth
Wed 16 Nov The Third and
Fri 25 Nov Dux Live, Christchurch
Sat 26 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch
Social, Auckland
Sat 19 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland
Sun 05 Feb Daisy Bank
Farm, Martinborough Roky Erickson (US)
Mon 06 Feb Claudelands Wed 07 Mar Powerstation, Auckland

Foo Fighters (US) w/ Kurt Vile (US)

Green, Hamilton
Wed 08 Feb Trafalgar Park, Nelson
Tenacious D (US) Thu 01 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland Thu 09 Feb Peregrine
Winery, Queenstown
Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland
Fri 10 Feb Pegasus Town, Christchurch
La De Da Festival Sat 11 Feb Turanga Creek, Auckland
Freaky Meat Fri 30 Dec Dry River Road,
Martinborough
Thu 10 Nov Rising Sun, Auckland
Thu 17 Nov The Pig and Whistle Sat 31 Dec Dry River Road, Mulatu Astatke (ET)
Historic Pub, Rotorua Martinborough Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland
Fri 18 Nov Perrett’s Corner
Cafe and Bar, Wellington
Ladi6 Nick Raven
Sat 19 Nov Baby G’s, Nelson
Sat 19 Nov Interislander Mon 26 Dec The Station Village
Complex, Lower Hutt
Fri 11 Nov UFO, Auckland
Sat 12 Nov Static, Hamilton
Roots Festival
Ferry, Wellington Sat 03 Dec Town Hall, Auckland
Wed 28 Dec Butlers Reef, Mangawhai Tue 15 Nov Crossroads Bar, Auckland
Wed 23 Nov Playhouse Cafe, Mapua Sat 19 Nov One2one
Mon 02 Jan Waihi Beach Hotel, Waihi
Thu 24 Nov The Roots
Bar, Takaka, Nelson Tue 03 Jan Brewers Field, Cafe, Auckland Roxette (SE)
Mt Maunganui Tue 22 Nov Crossroads Bar, Auckland Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland
Fri 25 Nov Le Cafe, Picton Fri 25 Nov Mangawhai
Sat 26 Nov Interislander Ferry, Picton
Laneway Festival 2012 Tavern, Mangawhai
Fri 09 Dec The Pit, Wellington Ryan Adams (US)
The Gaslamp Killer (US) Mon 30 Jan Silo Park, Auckland Tue 06 Mar Regent Theatre, Dunedin
Thu 08 Mar Civic Theatre, Auckland
Fri 18 Nov Be Club, Auckland
Sat 19 Nov Sandwiches, Wellington Lamb Of God (US) Northern Lights Festival
Wed 07 Mar Studio, Auckland
Fri 30 Dec - Mon 2 Jan
Pakiri Beach, Pakiri Selective Sounds
GROOVEMAN SPOT Tue 27 Dec TBC, Mangawhai
Fri 02 Dec Bacco Room, Auckland NZ Stonerfest Shapeshifter
Sat 03 Dec Whammy Bar &
Guitar Wolf (JP) Wine Cellar, Auckland
Sat 10 Dec The Venue, Christchurch
Thu 29 Dec Ascension
Vineyard, Matakana
Mon 12 Dec Dux De Lux, Christchurch Mon 02 Jan Riwaka Hotel, Motueka
Tue 13 Dec TBA, Dunedin Fri 06 Jan Brewers Field, Tauranga
Wed 14 Dec Bodega, Wellington
Thu 15 Dec Static, Hamilton
Pajama Club Sat 07 Jan Waihi Beach
Sat 03 Dec San Fran Bath Hotel, Coromandel
Fri 16 Dec Cassette Nine, Auckland House, Wellington

Hall & Oates (US)

Sun 04 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland
The Sisters Of Mercy (UK)
Wed 22 Feb Powerstation, Auckland
Sat 28 Jan Church Road Winery, Napier
Sun 29 Jan Villa Maria Estate, Auckland
Lisa Crawley Phoenix Foundation
Thu 17 Nov Montecristo Sat 03 Dec Wine & Food
Room, Auckland Festival, Christchurch
Hollie Smith Thu 24 Nov San Fran Bath
House, Wellington
Thu 17 Nov Sale St, Auckland
Fri 18 Nov Bodega, Wellington Fri 25 Nov Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Pink Floyd Double
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Tue 22 Nov Stardome Observatory
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Incubus (US) Bridge
Sat 19 Nov Leigh Sawmill, Leigh

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Tue 31 Jan Vector Arena, Auckland
Wed 01 Feb TSB Bank
Wed 23 Nov The Yot Club Portishead (UK)
Raglan, Raglan Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland
Arena, Wellington
Thu 24 Nov Cabana Bar, Napier
Fri 25 Nov Happy, Wellington
Sat 26 Nov Star Tavern, Westport

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 tours & events

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Six60 Stink Fest 13 Fri 02 Dec Bodega, Wellington
Sun 04 Dec Rangiora Town Vortex Tribe (US)
Fri 11 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Thu 15 Dec The Darkroom, Hall, Christchurch Mon 21 Nov Bruce Mason
Sat 12 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Christchurch Centre, Auckland
Mon 26 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Fri 16 Dec The Darkroom, Christchurch
Mangawhai Tavern Sat 17 Dec Dux Live, Christchurch Tuborg Summer Sunday Fri 25 Nov Opera House, Wellington
Sat 26 Nov Theatre Royal,
Tue 27 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music New Plymouth
Waihi Beach Hotel
Wed 28 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Stomping Nick & His Mountain, Matakana Sun 27 Nov Opera House, Hastings
Mon 28 Nov Baycourt, Tauranga
Coroglen Tavern
Mon 02 Jan Opononi Hotel, Opononi
Blues Grenade Tue 28 Nov Clarence St, Hamilton
Thu 01 Dec Interislander Ferry, Picton
Wed 04 Jan Brewers Field,
Mt Maunganui
Fri 02 Dec Meow, Wellington
Sat 03 Dec Space Monster, Wanganui
Wake Less
Thu 05 Jan Outdoor Fri 11 Nov - Sat 19 Nov BATS
Sun 04 Dec Evil Genius, Wellington
Marquee, Butlers Reef Theatre, Wellington
Fri 09 Dec Wine Cellar, Auckland
Fri 06 Jan Station Village Sun 11 Dec Interislander
Complex, Lower Hutt
Sat 07 Jan Outdoor Marquee,
Ferry, Wellington WOMAD
Fri 16 Mar - Sun 18 Mar TSB Bowl
Riwaka Tavern
Sun Araw (US) of Brooklands, New Plymouth
Fri 03 Feb Mighty Mighty, Wellington
Sat 04 Feb Whammy Bar, Auckland

Taylor Swift (US) tUnE-yArDs (US)

Fri 16 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland
Thu 12 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland
Sat 17 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland
Sun 18 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland
TV Colours (AU)
Thee Oh Sees (US) Wed 16 Nov Third and
Social, Auckland
Fri 27 Jan Whammy Bar, Auckland
Fri 18 Nov Tabac, Auckland
Sat 28 Jan Mighty Mighty, Wellington
Sun 29 Jan ARC Theatre, Wanganui
Unknown Mortal
Tim Finn Orchestra
Wed 30 Nov Mercury
Splore 2012 Theatre, Auckland
Fri 16 Dec San Fran Bath
House, Wellington
Fri 17 Feb - Sun 19 Feb Tapapakanga Thu 01 Dec Clarence St Sat 17 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland
Regional Park, Auckland Theatre, Hamilton
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 GAMING
Headphoning It In

The official Playstation 3 7.1 is that they run off a USB stick as
wireless headphones make opposed to Bluetooth audio. Yes,
all the difference when you’re Bluetooth audio sounds like a
gaming with your games, robot from the future according
watching your fancy Blu-Rays to a 1950s movie mixed with the
or ignoring your annoying live- annoyance of a dial-up modem,
in on-and-off girlfriend. A good so the loss of a USB port in order
sound is equal to good graphics, to use these is probably better
and Sony has picked up on that. than that pain in the arse sound.
This device is everything you The microphone works well
want in gaming headphones. enough, buta needless problem
You hear sound better and is the volume control tucked all
clearer, meaning that you pick the way behind your ear.
up on more. If you’re playing All in all these are a solid pair
a shoot-em-up, you can hear of next-gen surround sound
enemy footsteps and snipe that headphones that deliver exactly
Nazi-zombie dead. what you want out of a third gen
Obviously you’re going to console audio system. Bummer
want wireless, because cords is they’re only available in the
are for the ‘90s and freshly born US at the moment, but if you
babies. The biggest letdown can’t wait then check out your
with these headphones however importer of choice.

Temple Run
Smartphone Game Review

You’d think that with any new up to make him jump and down
smartphone game, the one to make him slide. He dodges
thing the producers are aiming obstacles and collects coins. The
for would be to be the next more coins collected, the more
Angry Birds. It’s bonuses/speedups
a phenomenon you can get along
that no other the way. If you don’t
smartphone game quite make a jump
has truly come or accidentally side
close to – next swipe a wall, then
on the list would the monsters will
have to be Doodle get you. Because
Jump, perhaps there are monsters
followed by Robot chasing you.
Unicorn Attack. It’s a very
What some familiar game
gaming studios in one way – it’s
do is let out a free basically that scene
version of their from Indiana Jones.
game. Not a lite or You know the one.
practice version, The one where
but more of a beta version. he’s running. If your old Sega
Enter the time I found my new Megsystem II had an Indiana
favourite smartphone game, Jones game it would be this.
Temple Run. Have a search on the app
Like the other runaway hit store for Temple Run, and
games, the addictiveness lies decide for yourself if this could
in the simplicity. Our little hero be one of the next big ones to
runs forward, and you swipe left close in on the ever-popular © 2011 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision, Call Of Duty and Modern Warfare are registered trademarks of Activision
or right to make him turn, swipe Angry Birds. Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
 Shit worth listening to

album reviews
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here and A Foot In The Door
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a Platinum Card, the five-disc all-singing, 1812 overture; you need the whole package
all-dancing Immersion CD/DVD box sets with to truly get it. But if you’re one of the three
more paraphernalia than you can shake an people in the universe who haven’t heard
inflatable pig at. Floyd, then this is the best starter. A Foot
First off the block was Dark Side of the in the Door is a fair career retrospective
Moon. And now, just in time for Christmas is for one of rock’s most innovative and
Wish You Were Here, their second head-on progressive outfits. That said, the selection
meld of Hypnosis’ incredible concept art predictably downplays the psychedelic
with Waters/Mason/Gilmours’ expeditionary days in favour of these best moments
compositions. Worth the trek on the from Dark Side, Wish and The Wall. There
Exploration CD is Stephane Grappelli’s violin are obvious omissions: ‘Arnold Layne’
solo on ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’, a and ‘Careful with that Axe Eugene’ to
No doubt they were the most influential honey-sweet alternative to Gilmour’s leads. boot. But time constraints and a need to
band after the Stones and The Beatles. Plus there’s Water’s live-wire paranoia and stay in the middle of the road probably
But for years, CD retailers were starved of a haunting bass on ‘Raving And Drooling’ played a role here. Longtime collaborator
their back catalogue and it was difficult to and a slightly funky version of ‘You’ve Got Storm Thorgerson adds his new, kind of
find anything that wasn’t a concert, box To Be Crazy’. Still, the entirely pedestrian live groovy cover, although in these days of
set or compilation. version of “Have a Cigar’ seems like a little Photoshop, his approach does seems a
Finally, under the ‘Why Pink Floyd?’ too much fluff in the pillow, and, to quote, little less dazzling. Naturally, the sound on
banner, EMI has stepped up with like “riding the gravy train”. all these recordings surpasses anything
their own concept albums: A digitally Ever since A Collection of Great Dance possible at Abbey Road or elsewhere.
remastered release of all originals as Songs, I’ve thought that creating a ‘best WRITTEN BY TIM GRUAR
Discovery albums, a two CD Experience of’ compilation of Pink Floyd was a bad
Available on Discover, Experience, Immersion formats
concept, including recording from the idea. Taking songs out of both context and
1974 Wembley dates, and for those with concept is like removing the cannon from the

The Unfaithful Ways Puscifer Tom Waits

Free Rein Conditions Of My Parole Bad As Me

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On the rear cover of Free Rein is an image of While ever-popular Tool tour the world Tom Waits is a well-respected but crusty
a quake-damaged building on Tuam Street in selling out arenas, singer Maynard James oddball, but to many he is practically
Christchurch. But rather than electioneering, Keenan has a more subversive musical invisible.
or forcing an idea upon us, the thoughts it outlet up his sleeve: Puscifer. Conditions In 2011, 38 years into his career as both a
provokes are strangely reverential. Of My Parole is the second album under this musician and actor, he has released Bad As
And so it is with the way this Garden pseudonym and it is miles beyond their jokey Me, his 17th album. What you find inside is
City-bred four-piece approach their craft but cool debut. wonky, gutbucket blues frequently howled at
and their heroes – a brand of country It is a masterful mix of electronic top volume. ‘Chicago’ shuffles and jives like
music that rests within themes and soundscapes, multilayered vocals and vintage r’n’b caked in grime.
general construction rather than sticking synthesizers, with some tongue in cheek The fevered ramblings of ‘Hell Broke
to uncompromising principles and the rockers on the side. ‘Toma’ bristles with Luce’ terrify as Waits rails against horrors
expectation that surrounds artists of the bad mojo while the fantastic title track of combat.
same ilk. revels in its tale of law breakers who can’t But it’s not all hellfire and carnival tricks.
Lead songwriter Marlon Williams often catch a break. Songs like ‘Horizons’, ‘The The slower, sweeter songs work their way
evokes his hero, Mr Van Zandt, though at Weaver’ and the gorgeous ‘Green Valley’ under your skin and into your heart. ‘New
times he’s left crooning like Charlie Fink are powerful emotive songs that reveal the Years Eve’ is a whiskey-breathed lament and
used to. It’s no criticism, though, as his heart of a true artist beating under Keenan’s ‘Talking At The Same Time’ plays a surf guitar
talent for spinning words together over famously rocky exterior. waltz over a sandpaper falsetto.
meat’n’potatoes-style instrumentation With every release Puscifer evolves and Tom Waits is a larger than life character
is incredibly entrancing, verses spilling strengthens its status as a fully formed who is part pied piper and part devil’s
graciously over into heady choruses. There’s musical ensemble rather than just some advocate. His albums are brimming with
nothing too fancy here, just simple and side project. brilliant, demented imagery and we would
blindingly effective chord changes and the This is the soundtrack to the world’s not have it any other way.
occasional vocal harmony. But my oh my, strangest nightclub and you’re invited. WRITTEN BY RICARDO KERR
how genius it is. WRITTEN BY RICARDO KERR
WRITTEN BY JAMES A. ROBINS

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on screen
Drive
FILM
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created a modern masterpiece of delivering scorching supporting

stylistic austerity and unfettered performances. Only Carey
cool. Mulligan (An Education) as the
A neon and synth-laden ‘80s love interest, seems a little bit
fever dream, Drive manages to out of place.
hold back where similar films A firecracker up the backside
go over the top. The opening of the bloated modern action
car chase is excruciatingly slow, movie, Drive shows just how
About half-way through Drive, as he is essentially describing creating a sustained air of uneasy emotive and poetic the genre
Bernie Rose, the mid-level the movie he is in. tension that finds release in brief can be.
LA mobster character played On paper, Drive sounds flashes of extreme violence. WRITTEN BY DOMINIC CORRY, Flicks.co.nz
by Albert Brooks, is talking pretty generic and at one point Gosling commands the screen
about his past as a producer was destined to be a stock- with the effortless cool of
of action movies in the ‘80s. standard action movie with Newman or McQueen – he has
“Some people described them Hugh Jackman in the lead role. very few lines, but his actions Further info
directed by
as…‘European’…” he says. Both Thankfully, Ryan Gosling and speak volumes. Refn infuses NICOLAS WINDING REFN
times I’ve seen Drive, this line crazy Danish director Nicolas even the most minor characters Starring
elicited a mild murmur of Winding Refn (Bronson, Valhalla with complex identities, with RYAN GOSLING, CAREY MULLIGAN AND
BRYAN CRANSTON
recognition from the audience, Rising) came on board and Brooks and Ron Pearlman both

Further info Further info

directed by directed by
JOHN MADDEN LONE SCHERFIG
Starring Starring
HELEN MIRREN, SAM WORTHINGTON ANNE HATHAWAY, JIM STURGESS AND
AND TOM WILKINSON PATRICIA CLARKSON

The Debt One Day

film film
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With the deaths this year of Bin colleague (Tom Wilkinson) are It should have been a match chemistry between the leads,
Laden and Gaddafi, The Debt’s intercut with the mission itself. made in heaven. Teaming up and the story’s brief running
examination of how a narrative With this star power it comes the stars of two of the more time and episodic nature
forms around the murky truths as a surprise that The Debt’s avant-garde and risqué romantic doesn’t help that. Sturgess can’t
of assassination and espionage strongest moments stem from movies for the past few years transcend the fact that Dexter
is timely. When that narrative scenes with younger versions – Love and Other Drugs and is basically an upper-class prat,
is part of the developmental of these characters; Jessica Across the Universe – with while Hathaway just struggles
process of a nation, as the Chastain (Tree Of Life) proving a Danish director who had with the accent and a terribly
Mossad’s plan to hunt down a compelling screen presence already made an acclaimed, underwritten character.
Nazi war criminals was for Israel, and our own Martin Csokas a period-set literary adaptation. Scherfig tries to
it can take on a life of its own, magnificent creep. Unfortunately the end result enliven proceedings with
whether true or not. But for all this acting power is a half-baked, virtually clever Teachers-esque titles
Set in both the 1960s and on display,The Debt comes off humourless, pseudo-romantic and a soundtrack that includes
1990s, the film tells the story as less than the sum of its parts. muddle that doesn’t do the everyone from Tracy Chapman
of an Israeli operation to bring Perhaps that’s because the film much-loved book justice. to Tears for Fears and Del Amitri
a war criminal to justice and is so performance-focused that A cross between When Harry to Fat Boy Slim, but you can’t
the effect liberties with the the broader ramifications of Met Sally (can they ever really help feeling this dreary tale
truth threaten to have 30 years its characters’ actions aren’t just be friends?) and 500 Days of could have done with a bit
later. Helen Mirren’s character immediately obvious, but it Summer (a distillation of a of fancy editing or narrative
has managed to live with this doesn’t manage to sustain the relationship’s falls and rises), reconstruction.
until pushed to confront it and sort of tension nor provide a One Day lacks the former’s wit WRITTEN BY JAMES CROOT, Flicks.co.nz
her subsequent investigations satisfactory resolution. and the latter’s invention. Part of
and arguments with a former WRITTEN BY STEVE NEWALL, Flicks.co.nz the problem is that there’s little

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 Shit Worth reading

On Paper
The Boys
Comic Review

If there’s one massive release murderers and rapists. They

happening this month in the are corrupted by their status
comics world, it’s the ninth as celebrities, and end up
release of Garth Ennis’ runaway compromising the safety of
hit, The Boys. the world they carelessly
A lot of comic readers don’t take advantage of and end up
like reading mainstream books endangering.
– the likes of The Avengers, When it comes to creating
X-Men, Justice League, etc. These badass characters, Garth has
people are more into their indie to be one of the best in the
publications, whether you’re business. The multi-layered
looking at the festival-like storytelling is as thought out
cultures and themes that come and as serial as one of the
out of Fantagraphics Books or writer’s previous (and most
creator-owned series. The Boys popular) series, Preacher.
can appeal to these people in Everything is foreshadowed
more ways than one. so meticulously that it truly
Garth has a vocal disdain for becomes a struggle to put the
superheroes. The Boys is his book down.
love note (or more of a Dear This month the ninth trade
John) to the superhero comics paperback will hit comic stands.
universe. Set in a world where A whopping twelve issues will
superheroes exist as marketing be combined into this collection,
dreams as well as personified and by now there have to be
government defence contracts, answers set up to the multitude
Garth looks at what that kind of questions readers have been
of power can do to the ego of asking for over a year. In an
any given person who considers interview last year, Garth said
them self to be invincible. that The Boys would “out-
Enter a covert CIA-squad Preacher Preacher”, and that the
informally known as The Boys series would wind up around
to monitor that superhero issue 70. That point is getting
community. The group that closer, and it’s been a hell of a
keeps tabs on superheroes and ride so far.
keep them in line. If a “hero” is If you want a good metaphor
acting out, then The Boys take for the elite’s psyche, read
them down, and take them this comic. If you don’t like
down hard. superheroes, read this comic.
The storyline can be filthy. If you want to get into comics,
Consider the likes of a Bret read this comic. Unless the
Easton Ellis book, where idea of blood, violence, sex and
those with money and power egomania disturbs you, there is
eventually search for anything no good reason for not reading
sadistic and abnormal to still this comic.
feel some kind of excitement Written by Summer Thernomme
out of life. These “superheroes”
rely on their image in front
of the public, but behind the
scenes they are sexual deviants,
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Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

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Machine
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Zowie 2. Anonymous
3. Cigarettes
BEACH PIGS 3. Black Sheep
Gin Wigmore 3. In Time
4. 3rd Eye
BADD ENERGY 4. A Long Time 4. The Debt
Mayer Hawthorne
5. Intro (ft. Zola Jesus)
M83 5. Blink and You’ll Miss a 5. The Inbetweeners
Revolution
6. Buddy Cut Copy 6. I Don’t Know How She Does It
EVIL TWINS
6. The Origins of Slaves
7. Ffunny Ffriends (The Naked Cairo Knife Fight 7. The Thing
and Famous Remix)
UNKNOWN MORTAL 7. Sweet Dreams 8. One Day
ORCHESTRA The Grates
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TEETH White Lies
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MMDELAI Foster the People
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Double Nickels on the Dime. 1. Not Many
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The Hives Kurt Vile
4. Wooden Shjips Dysplasia
A deformation of the 6. O.G. 6. Blood On The Deck
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arms folded. 7. Orange Crush Sun Araw
REM
8. Paddling Ghost
5. Rubella Fitzgerald 8. Yellow
Redenning of the skin and Dan Deacon
Coldplay (sounds
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by trying to sing a three to it in the dark) Dum Dum Girls
octave range.
9. Tick-it to Ride 10. Invader Ace
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