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Breaking news  Midnight Youth will be performing with Young Lyre for a one-off show at Auckland’s Powerstation on Friday 28 October.  The first line-up for Homegrown has been announced for Saturday 18 February at Wellington’s waterfront.

This announcement includes some big hitters such as Shihad, The Adults, David Dallas, Concord Dawn and plenty more, but we’ll be waiting to see what underdogs will be in the second announcement next month.

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 Nelson high-school heartbreakers The Peasants took away the Smokefreerockquest title over the weekend, winning them a grant of $10,000. Keep your earballs peeled for their single which should hit radio waves in the coming months.  The AotearoHA series hits Auckland’s SKYCITY Theatre on Friday 28 October with Ben Hurley, Mo Kheir, Urzila Carson, Guy Williams and Tom Furniss performing.

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Another sideshow/sister show has been announced as part of the Rhythm “& suffix” gigs all going down later this year. Rhythm And Alps will be taking over Terrance Downs in Canterbury’s Mt Hutt with Grandmaster Flash, Flying Lotus, Six60, 1814, Homebrew, A Hori Buzz, The Eastern and roughly another 30 acts on show. The festival goes down on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 December with tickets from 1-night.

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It’s the 30th anniversary of Flying Nun this November, and the iconic label is celebrating in epic proportions.

Throughout the celebratory month a range of Nun artists will play shows in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Those on the line up include The Clean, HDU, The Bats, Ghost Club, F in Math and Alphabethead. The 30th anniversary launch parties will be held at Auckland’s Kings Arms on Friday 04 November and The Garden Club in Wellington the next day, with performances from Popstrangers, Surf Friends, T54 and more.

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30/01 Lanewayday

The Laneway Festival is officially back in action, and has found yet another new spot to call home.

The day of fun will go down on Monday 30 January next year at the new Silo Park, formerly known as the Tank Farm down on Auckland’s Waterfront. No official word yet as to who’s performing, but that will all be announced on Monday 10 October. Place your bets and start the rumours...

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Dunedin’s strictly vinyl label Monkey Killer Records are marking their third year in business by throwing a birthday bash next month. In what seems like a very grown-up and mature decision, the gig will be held in the afternoon on Sunday 16 October.

Mountaineater, Operation Rolling Thunder, Idiot Prayer, Conray and Kilmog who will all be spread over the two stages between Bennu and XII Below.

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The Tempo Dance Festival 2011 kicks off later this month. Friday 30 September sees the eighth incarnation of the celebration go down at Auckland’s new Q Theatre on Queen Street as it runs through to Saturday 08 October. 15 showcases of all things dance will be packed into the nine days of contemporary brilliance, ranging from all ages works to naughtier, nudier, burlesqueier performances.

04/11 Dub Ya

Salmonella Dub will be playing at The Hunter Lounge at Victoria University in November as they celebrate (a little late) their July double-album release Freak Control Madness – The Twenty Track Park. After about 15 years of international touring they’ve picked up a few tricks. Newtown Rocksteady Soulsystem and DJ Rudeboy will handling the support reigns for the Wellington show.

Contributors Justin Fowler, Ricardo Kerr, James A. Robins, Chris Pole, Jimmy Ness, Shaun Jones, Matt Cook, Nicole Yorston, Jon Snow, Matthew Turner, John Brinkman.

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A nifty little boutique arts festival will be going down in Auckland and it all starts on Monday at The Basement. Basementfest.2011 will include theatrical thrillers, street art, burlesque, DJs, stand-up and plenty more. Running through to Saturday 22 October, performances include Yours Truly, Haunted Love, My Mother Says I’m Talented, Tourettes and a Regrooved Block Party. Check it out online – it looks like a biggie.

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Jess Chambers will be kicking off her three-stop tour this week in celebration of her new album Desire.

Following her hugely impressive 2008 debut Jess Chambers and the Firefly Orchestra is no easy task, but she managed to come out on top playing her part in The Woolshed Sessions pretty well so expect good things. The talented songstress hits Auckland and Wellington this week.

25/11 The Jazz-Cat Experience

Acclaimed Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke will play his first ever New Zealand show at Auckland’s Powerstation later this year. Referred to as the “Father of Ethio-Jazz”, Astatke has been sampled by the likes of Kanye, Nas and Damien Marley and contributed to Jim Jarmush’s 2005 hit Broken Flowers. Australian and Ethiopian collaborators The Black Jesus Experience will be playing support for the November show.

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The Sounds Of Silver APRA decked out the Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday the September 13 to honour and celebrate New Zealand’s finest song writing talent in the annual Silver Scrolls. The always-entertaining Master of Ceremonies Oscar Kightley guided an evening that weaved in a plethora of musical interpretation.

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Each of the Silver Scrolls finalists had their work interpreted by musical peers under the guide of Musical Director for the night Don McGlashan. These included an epic heavy metal interpretation of Sounz Contemporary Music Award winner Lyell Cresswell’s ‘Concerto For Piano And Orchestra’ stylishly thrashed out by kimono wearing Richie Allan And The Heavy Metal Ninja’s.

The jovial Graham Brazier led Hello Sailor to the plinth to be inducted to the New Zealand Music Hall Of Fame.

Touching speeches about those passed and a memoir by self-confessed Hello Sailor groupie Peter Urlich made this a very special occasion. Gin Wigmore teamed up with Steve Abel And The Chrysalids to perform a strong folksy-blues rendition of ‘Blue Lady’.

The Maioha Award for contemporary Maori song writing went to Tyna Keelan for ‘Ko Koe’. Keelan was somewhat surprised and was sure to mihi his fellow finalists Ngahiwi Apanui and Tiki Taane. The delightful Sandy Mills performed his song.

Brooke Fraser took out the award most played song in New Zealand with ‘Something In The Water’.

The main event The Silver Scroll went to Dave Baxter for Avalanche City’s ‘Love Love Love’. “This is too weird,” said Baxter, not expecting to be up and giving an acceptance speech. Baxter’s song was given an a cappella fused gypsy bohemian rock treatment by Benka Bordovsky Bordello Band.

Other performers brought the stage to life included newly home Cut Off Your Hands and Homebrew Crew. John Rowles closed the night with ‘Cheryl Moana Marie’.

DIY Foundations The Audio Foundation will be holding an informal panel discussion this week. On the panel will be Richard MacFarlane and Tim Gentles from Rose Quartz, and Programme Leader of Critical Studies at Elam School of Fine Arts Jon Bywater, all of whom will be talking about “recent technological changes, and the impact that this has had on notions of DIY music culture... new interactions between DIY techniques and modes of distribution, and styles typically associated with the nonDIY overground”. The Sunday Salon goes down at the Audio Foundation HQ located at 4 Poynton Terrace in Auckland’s upper CBD/K Road just off Pitt St.

Malcontented In awesome comic book (or graphic novel if you want to be PC about it) news, a local comic artist and author has made the list. Chris Grosz’s new release Kimble Bent: Malcontent is published by Random House NZ and has made number seven on the bestsellers lists of locally published books.

The publication retells the history of Kimble Bent, a little known folkhero and American soldier during the 1860s. Grosz has previously worked as a political cartoonist and music poster designer, illustrating for Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa and plenty more reputable names.

More than anything it’s great to see NZ audiences opening their literature minds and welcoming more left-of-centre publications and realising that comics aren’t just the funnies. Mad excelsior props.

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Releases and Reissues

of Montreal will be releasing a very limited edition box set (literally in a box) containing all of the band’s 10 full-length albums.

Only 500 sets will be available for purchase through Joyful Noise Recordings.

Mike Patton won’t be hanging with Faith No More anytime soon. He’s just announced the release of his latest film score, Music from the Film and Inspired by the Book The Solitude of Prime Numbers. That is exactly as it sounds. Guess how the track listing is laid out? Prime numbers.

Jersey-ites Real Estate will be releasing their sophomore album Days through Domino. The impressive album was produced by Kevin McMahon who has previously worked with the likes of Titus Andronicus and The Walkmen. Days is slated for a mid-October release.

The newest Kate Bush album 50 Words For Snow is slated for a Monday 21 November release. The concept album (if you can call it that) only has seven tracks but a 65 minute run-time. Each song is a new track and is set against a background of falling snow. Very experimental.

After a three-year hiatus, Evanescence will be releasing their third album through EMI. The self-titled release follows their debut album Fallen that took away two Grammy Awards back in ’03, and the less popular sophomore effort The Open Door.

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Film news in brief Stitchkingdom.com has a load of tidbits and tidbobs about the upcoming Muppets film including character synopses and plenty of trivia to get you excited for the nostalgiagasm feature.

Did you know Miss Piggy has 12 costume changes in the film (more than any other “actor”) and that over 120 Muppets will appear in it?

A Party Down reunion could be closer than we’ve ever thought. Adam Scott (Henry) has said that the cast and crew are “like 90% there”, and that everyone from the actors and producers “all want to do it”. Hopefully it will come to fruition faster than the still unconfirmed Arrested Development movie.

Alcon, the production company that bought the rights to a Blade Runner prequel or sequel which has Ridley Scott attached to direct, is planning to reboot none other than Point Break.

Will the infamous line “I’m not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand” will make the cut?

Duncan Jones’ less impressive follow-up to his debut Moon is being turned into a television series. CBS will be developing Source Code, and word is it’s the same style of plot as the film – someone goes back in time for eight minutes to solve a mystery. If you’ve seen the flick, you’ll know that the revelation at the end of the film doesn’t seem all that plausible as structure for a television series.

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Goldie

The Harbour Union

Alice Cooper

Revolver, Queenstown

Mighty Mighty

The Trusts Stadium

Actor, artist, B-boy, producer and drum’n’bass invigorator Goldie starts his three-stop tour this week down south before moving up for a show in Wellington at Sandwiches on Thursday and finishing at Auckland’s Zen on Friday. It’s Goldielocks, baby.

The Lyttelton collective of The Eastern, Delaney Davidson, Lindon Puffin, The Unfaithful Ways, The Tiny Lies, Al Park and Runaround Sue arrive in the capital trading their tunes and times for a bit of charity to help quake victims.

The original theatre shock-rocker brings everything Coop’ to The Trusts Stadium in Henderson for this one-off Auckland show.

Celebrating his latest album Welcome 2 My Nightmare, the “Shreikquel” in Cooper’s words to the 1979 hit Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice will be supported by Head Like A Hole.

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Bitchin’ Bingo

The Devil’s Rock

The Kings Arms

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The early ‘90s hardcore punks have about 20 years of recording and touring under their studded belts and are celebrating their latest album release Scars. If you didn’t know, their vocalist is called Human Furnace. So there’s that.

That awesome game that old people play in all the movies isn’t just for old people. It’s also for hip young drapes like you! If you’re a square you can at least go along and look like you’re bitchin’.

This New Zealand-made horror flick will either be hit or miss. As in, total cult hit or just a laughable mess.

We’re all for Nazi zombies, which is why video games these days are so awesome. This film basically has exactly that, with special effects by Weta Workshop.

It’s been called “Saw with Swastikas”.

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WELLINGTON International Ukulele Orchestra

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95bFM is putting together another night for bCard holders celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, featuring Sherpa, god bows to math, $noregazZzm, Mean Girls, X-Ray Fiends and Nevernudes. If you don’t have a bCard they’ll be on sale at the door, but that didn’t work out too well for you at bStreet, did it?

Electric Wire Hustle & Little Bushman San Fran Bath House

This is quite a team-up taking the stage. Everyone’s favourite Warren-Maxell-band-of-the-moment is playing two dates this weekend in Wellington with Electric Wire Hustle after several months gigging internationally. The bands will play at San Fran Bath House this Friday and Saturday.

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Our very own Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra gives everything that a performance should – showmanship, harmonies, humour and damn good songs. The two shows in Eltham this weekend will be worth the trip if you can make it.

Rose Quartz DJs

Cut Off Your Hands

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The Rose Quartz folks know their shit.

You might hear them on bFM talking about their favourite new releases or in St Kevin’s Arcade on K Road. This Friday they’ll be at D.O.C. spinning away what they reckon is pretty good stuff. Odds are, they’ll be right.

Cut Off Your Hands take their Hollows album release tour down to Christchurch, playing at the increasingly popular Venue-Musicbar. No doubt this gig will be a big one before the band heads further down south to Sammy’s in Dunedin on Saturday.

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Saturday 24 Smokefree Pacifica Beats

Death By Cheerleader

Telstra Clear Pacific Manukau

BATS Theatre

It’s the final night of the original performance of Death By Cheerleader, a mix of rugby, fandom, secrecy and all round cheertastic goodness. And we’re all familiar with cheerleaders bringing it on, right? They put the lewd in deluded. And the ass in massive. And the itch in bitch. And the whore in horrifying.

The national finals for the Smokefree Pacifica Beats competition are going down this weekend in Manukau. Walking away victorious will be one of six high school bands: The Tropics from Christchurch’s Aranui High School; Auckland’s Servn8 from One Tree Hill College; Rubberband from Manurewa High School, also from Auckland; Ahomairangi from Taipa Area School, Te Wehi from TKKM o Nga Mokopuna in Wellington and Levin’s eXidus from Waiopehu College. These are the finalists out of nearly 600 bands in the competition, and the winning group will walk away with a $10,000 grant from NZ on Air to record a song and video for release.

Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret The Basement

All things vaudeville come together for this big night at The Basement. The Big Timers is put together

by Lilly Loca’s Vaudeville Cabaret, and will include everything that you love about early 20th century partyin’ and hootenannyin’. It’s like it’s Prohibition and you’re at a big jazz/swing club with words like voluptuous, burlesque, firecracker and Bugsy.

My,Oh.

Mel Parsons & The Rhythm Kings

Glue Gallery

Mt Olympus Ski Hutt, Hororata

We got this from the My, Oh. promoters: “HELLO. Come and have a big homo/esque party with us. We are releasing an album for you.” It said more about payment options of which there are several, but more than anything the pleasant greeting was very nice. The Fuck Chairs and Waots play support. You should go.

Mel Parsons is celebrating the release of her new album Red Grey Blue with a 20-stop tour around the country. This week sees the singer/songwriter’s first show as part of the Real NZ show at Mt Olympus ski field in Canterbury, joined by backing band The Rhythm Kings.

Sunday 25 Kraftbomb Craft Market

Jess Chambers

Grey Lynn Community Centre

San Fran Bath House

Kraftbomb is back, as per every last Sunday of the month. One of the snazziest little craft gems around in Auckland, it’s a great way to impress anyone you want to impress by looking like you’re cultured. Plus they have loads of seriously cool stuff. The kids will love it, and so will you.

Jess Chambers would have to have one of the best voices we’ve heard on a Kiwi lass in recent years.

Whether she’s singing her own beautiful, haunting ballads, romancing us with her adorable love songs or stringing us along with The Woolshed Sessions, the songstress is one of the best around. Don’t miss her.

Six60 & 1814

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The Bigtop, New Plymouth

The final night of The Bigtop celebrations goes down this weekend with six60 and 1814 on show. So far the temporary New Plymouth venue has seen an array of performances, and it will all wind up this Sunday.

Head along to see what the last night of this joint-bar venture has to offer.

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JURASSIC EGO After three critically-acclaimed albums, British band Kasabian are back to unleash the colossal Velociraptor! on the world, and they have no doubt it could be one of the best albums of the last decade...

It can be really difficult for bands sometimes, all that posturing and proclaiming your own infinite awesomeness from the rooftops at every turn, and sure, you may lose integrity the more you do it – a bizarre form of boys crying wolf – but it’s imperative that you have the musical capability to back it up.

And boy do Kasabian have some tunes.

Formed back at the turn of the millennium, Kasabian were the sort of lad-band everyone was looking for in the vacuum left by the post-Oasis boom of the mid-‘90s, forcibly wrenching the swaggering and cockswinging torch from the hands of the Brothers Gallagher and waving it enthusiastically from the hilltop that the New Musical Express created for them after the success of their self-titled debut. The mechanical mastery of ‘Processed Beats’ and mega-hit ‘Clubfoot’ eventually led to the nigh-on concept album Empire and its own posse of chart successes, increasing the size of a few already-inflated egos. Between guitarist and lead songwriter Serge Pizzorno and typical Midlands lad Tom Meighan, the pair managed to insult almost every young up-and-coming gun, asserting that they were the Second Coming (“dance music was on its arse before we came along”), all the while letting praise and adoration rain down upon them, not least of all from Brother Noel himself.

The band, completed by drummer Ian Matthews and bassist Chris Edwards, seem to fulfil their own prophecies though, packing out stadiums, releasing chart-topping records and bragging their way

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through the music press without so much as a shrug – Pizzorno even writing the score to 2010 gangster-flick London Boulevard during his months off. Apparently taking anything and everything in their very lofty stride is a key ingredient to making the Kasabian machine tick over.

You can always tell when a band like this will release their next record due to the increasing torrent of self-reverential quotes that spill forth, and this time is no different with Pizzorno matter-of-factly stating: “The aim was to make a modern classic, one that people can take to their hearts and sing along to. It’s been fifteen or sixteen years since the last truly classic album, but I think we’ve done it.”

He’s talking about Velociraptor!, their upcoming fourth record which follows the psychedelic majesty of West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum that spawned some of their biggest hits to date. Judging by leading single ‘Switchblade Smiles’ – a stab of murderous and haunting electronica that is equal parts gothic dirge and sneaky pop hit – they’re back to the thunderous roots for which they first gained notoriety.

It seems impossible for a band such as Kasabian to achieve anything more than they already have – ludicrous claims aside.

But if an asteroid wiped out all of the dinosaurs in one foul swoop, then it will take something equally as impressive to knock this band from the top of the food chain.

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VELOCIRAPTOR! Best of TRACK BY TRACK – Written by Serge Pizzorno DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN “It’s the sort of song which will sound great crunching out of the radio.

The lyrics were inspired by hip-hop MCs like Doom and Gift Of Gab. I love that whole, ‘this is us, and if you don’t like it, fuck off’ attitude.

‘Days’ is us stating our case. There’s a line in it which goes “Call me a cliché/How right you are”. I might be a rock’n’roll cliché but I take pride in it.”

LA FEE VERTE “It’s a psychedelic tune about those moments when you look around and think the dream is over, and the only thing left to do is pull out the absinthe and head for oblivion. The whole X Factor celebrity culture thing. Dogs in handbags. There are lyrical references to a few people in there - Noel Fielding for one.”

VELOCIRAPTOR! “It’s the natural end to the first half of the album. A great place to flip the record over. It’s an adrenaline surge, meant to represent this frightening force bearing down on you, whatever that may be. That feeling of being chased.”

ACID TURKISH BATH (SHELTER FROM THE STORM) “There’s a Native Indian call at the start. It’s got that immigrant song feel to it. We were after that huge John Bonham drum sound to go with it.

It’s massive, it stomps on everything else. We wanted to get that crunch you hear on old Turkish psychedelic records, really full on and in your face.”

MAN OF SIMPLE PLEASURES “This is a really simple song, just guitar, bass and drums. It’s traditional and perfect in a weird way. There’s a bit of a bluesy, country feel to it.

If you know the band or hang around with us it will make sense. Come round mine for a smash up you’ll get some Roy Orbison, you know what I mean?”

SWITCHBLADE SMILES “This is full-tilt Kasabian. The title was inspired by this interview with Morgan Freeman where he described someone as having a switchblade smile. I knew exactly what he meant. He was talking about one of those people who seem pretty friendly but you know underneath they’re a right evil fucker. This song captures that feeling of edginess. You don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

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I DUB THEE SIR BULLETPROOF As far as reputations go this guy is a legend. Delivering funkalicious tunes for over a decade, he stands a king amongst dubstep.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER The latest addition to Jay Bulletproof’s respected dubstep portfolio comes under the banner Dub Me Crazy. He says that it’s a natural followon from his last album, using the same idea of keeping it “local”. As this was written, title track ‘Dub Me Crazy’ featuring Jessie G had already registered over 50,000 YouTube hits. There is an undeniable anticipation for this album, a year in the making.

Bulletproof likes to think of his work as a marriage of genres. The collaboration and remixes on this album feature an impressive list of New Zealand music cohorts; the already mentioned Jessie G features regularly, and her talent joins an artist list that reads more like an honours plaque. Familiar floor-fillers Computers Want Me Dead, Kidz In Space, current dubstep scene explorers Crushington and the beautiful voices of Hollie Smith and Anika Moa all feature. Bulletproof thinks that it’s amazing to work with such variety: “It’s awesome to be able to work with such a close knit community.”

When asked what influences his styling, he admits that he tries not to listen to other peoples work. “I don’t want to be like anyone else,” he muses. That’s probably the secret to his decade-tested success. Reflecting on his own work, Bulletproof acknowledges that it comes down to the music. His insider advice for new dubstep blood is “don’t rely on noises”; a golden tid-bit that he practices himself. Concentrating on the funk and groove has helped him create an album that snubs the current ambivalent relationship of dubstep and relentless chainsaw styles.

Bulletproof has created the perfect onslaught of bass that would satisfy all true dubstep fans.

Bulletproof is a DJ first and foremost. “It’s all I’ve ever done,” he says.

“I’m happiest live.” Why? “The feeling of everyone raving off to my music,” he comments, is what he gets off on.

There is a busy calendar ahead for Bulletproof, so groupies – get your diaries out. He plans to kick off touring Dub Me Crazy at a show in Tauranga on September 16, but a more extensive Australian and New Zealand touring schedule for September and October is due out soon. He’s also already booked in to set the pace at Homegrown, BW Campgrounds, and Northern Lights. A good enough excuse to cancel Christmas and spend the pingers on a roady or three if there ever was one.

The release of Dub Me Crazy is a bit of a treasure trail; it’s set to be released in three different forms. The 16-track standard version will be available pretty much everywhere, and an iLP version will be exclusively available at JB HiFi, which will include the standard 16 tracks plus a further nine to keep the bass hunger at bay. A 24-track version will also be made available on iTunes.

Clean yourself up, it’s time to rave.

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Tonga VS Japan

Australia VS USA

Northlands Events Centre, Whangarei: kick off at 7:30pm

Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington: kick off at 8:30pm

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Peggy Gordon’s Tonga VS Japan

England VS Romania / New Zealand VS France live / The Feelers & Shotgun Alley

Australia VS USA / Covers Night

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South Africa VS Namibia North Harbour Stadium, Auckland: kick off at 8:00pm

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South Africa VS Tonga

NATION’S CLUBROOMS

Peggy Gordon’s Australia VS USA

Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth: kick off at 7:30pm

Sun 25

The Crib

Fiji VS Samoa

NATION’S CLUBROOMS

Wales VS Namibia Wales VS Namibia

Peggy Gordon’s

Ireland VS Russia

Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua: kick off at 6:00pm

Argentina VS Scotland

England VS Romania

Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington: kick off at 8:30pm

Otago Stadium, Dunedin: kick off at 6:00pm

New Zealand VS France Eden Park, Auckland: kick off at 8:30pm

The Crib

Fiji VS Samoa / Ireland VS Russia / Argentina VS Scotland

NATION’S CLUBROOMS

The Crib

South Africa VS Tonga

England VS Romania / New Zealand VS France / Covers Night

Peggy Gordon’s

NATION’S CLUBROOMS

South Africa VS Tonga

Wales VS Namibia

Eden Park, Auckland: kick off at 3:30pm

Sat 24 Thu 22

Mon 26

Peggy Gordon’s

England VS Romania / New Zealand VS France live / Black Salt

Fiji VS Samoa / Ireland VS Russia / Argentina VS Scotland

Peggy Gordon’s

Fiji VS Samoa / Ireland VS Russia / Argentina VS Scotland

Wales VS Namibia

Tue 27 Canada VS Japan McLean Park, Napier: kick off at 5:00pm

Italy VS USA

Trafalgar Park, Nelson: kick off at 7:30pm

The Crib

Canada VS Japan / Italy VS USA

NATION’S CLUBROOMS

Canada VS Japan / Italy VS USA

Peggy Gordon’s

Canada VS Japan / Italy VS USA

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auckland gig guide Wed 21 1885 Basement

Creative Jazz Club: Phil Broadhurst CD Launch: 8pm: $10

Be Club

Fresh Blood #7: 10pm: Free

Mexican Cafe

Live Latin & Brazilian Music: 8:30pm: Free

Music Theatre, School of Music

Staff & Guests: Gao Ping (University of Canterbury): 7:30pm: $30

Ponsonby Social Club Tyra Hammond & The Circling Sun Band: 9:30pm: Free

Racket Bar

T-Rice: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

Playing Up: 9pm

Sale St

Jason Eli: 7:30pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club Junior: 9pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Ringworm (US) w/ Guests The Burial & Oilbarrons: 8pm: $20

The Kingslander Salsa Night: 7pm: Free

Sale St

Selecta Sam & Dee Why: 7pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Lewis Tennant: 9pm: Free

The Kings Arms

The New Telepathics w/ F in Math & Nameless Sons + Guests: 8pm

The Wine Cellar Jess Chambers ‘Desire’ Concert: 8pm: $20

The Britomart Country Club Manuel Bundy & Nyntee: 5pm: Free

The Kings Arms

95bFM Presents Where Are You Sleeping Tonight - A Nirvana Tribute Show: 7pm: bCard Entry

1885 Basement

Jazz In The Basement w/ Roger Manins & friends + MayaVanya: 8pm: Free

1885 Britomart

Jennifer Zea & MayaVanya: 8pm: Free

1885 Britomart

Highlife Deluxe: 10pm: $10

The Audio Foundation Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing Tangiwai Release: 6:30pm: Koha

Punch The Clock: Benn Morrison & Andy JV: 10pm: $10

Be Club

Be Club

CASSETTE

Be Free Fridays: 10pm: Free

Florries McGreals David Shanhun: 9:30pm

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

Fantine The ‘Eleven’ Tour: 8pm

tings

Sat 24 1885 Basement

Fri 23

lis event

Be Saturdays: 10pm: $5

Sun 25 Goode Brothers Chloe Duo: 4pm

Kenneth Myers Centre Emerging Artists: Jason Bae - Carnaval: 5pm: $15

Ponsonby Social Club Conch Sunday Grill: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

ALL THE WAY LIVE

Sick Disco meets Space Disco: The Return of the 90’s Jam w/ guests P-Money, Bevan Keys & Ben King + Dick Johnson: 10pm: $10

Sale St

De Post

Southern Fried Sunday w/ The Grifters & special guests: 5pm: $10

Florries McGreals

Mitch French: 7:30pm

Shae: 2pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Salsa Party w/ DJ King Salsa: 11pm: Free

New Brew

The Kingslander The Silhouettes: 10pm: Free

Music Theatre, School of Music

Ponsonby Social Club

Mon 26

Mexican Cafe

Lee Gray: 10:30pm De Ja Vu: 8:30pm

Lunchtime Concert: Guitar & voice students: 1pm: Free

ABs vs France then Sandy Bay Social Club: 6pm: Free

1885 Basement

New Brew

Racket Bar

From Scratch: 8pm: Free

The Cover Up: 8:30pm

Page 3 & Jerm: 8pm: Free

1885 Britomart

Racket Bar

Rakinos

Blakout w/ Adam B & Sarge: 9:30pm: Free

Tido & Killamanraro: 6pm: Free

JAPONICA: 10pm: $10

Tue 27

Rakinos

Sale St

Empire Tavern

Be Club

Grant Marshall: 7pm: Free

Be Thursdays: 10pm: Free

HIGHSTREET BOOGALOO ft. DJ CXL: 9pm: $5

Empire Million Dollar Trivia Show: 6pm: Free

Cassette Nine

Rising Sun

The Britomart Country Club

Florries McGreals

The Kings Arms

Racket Bar

Page3, Mixed Tape Kidz, Dee Why: 5pm: Free

The Kingslander

Rakinos

shooters saloon

The Lucha Lounge

Thu 22

Cassette Allstars ft. Aza Pony, Dirty Uncool & guests: 10pm: Free

Ink & Coherent

SHAKE YOUR WEIGHT ft.

WeightShakerz: 10pm: Free

New Brew

Franko: 5:30pm

Ponsonby Social Club Occupational Therapy: Free

Racket Bar

Conch w/ Cian & Murray Cammick: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

PLATFORM BIZZ: 9pm

DUBJB Music Presents: THE ROOTS FESTIVAL WARMUP SERIES: 9pm: $10

Sale St

CURVY BBW PARTY: 8:30pm: $20

Stampede Bar & Grill

BACK TO SCHOOL ft. DJ SIRVERE & TANIA M: 10pm: $15

Takutai Square Mika’s AROHA Mardi Gras: 6pm: Free

The Back Beat Bar

KATIE SCOTT & THE MISS T’S EP RELEASE PARTY: 8pm: $10

Chip Matthews: 10pm: Free Pajama Club: 8pm

The Sick Sundays: 10pm: Free The Connoisseur Club presents DICK DYNAMITE & THE DOPPELGANGERS: 9pm: $5

Western Lights The VHF: 8pm

Whammy Bar

Witch’s Tit: 9pm: $10

Racket Bar Flex: 6pm: Free

Mark C: 8:30pm

Huffey Street Sound System: 6pm: Free ACOUSTIC: 5:30pm

Sale St

Josh Leys: 7:30pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Free

The Kingslander Quiz Night w/ Tom & Stu: 7pm: Free

The Windsor Castle Open Mic Night w/ Kiwi FM: 9pm: Free

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events

Wellington gig guide Wed 21

Fri 23

SANDWICHES

SOUTHERN CROSS BAR

Bar Medusa

BATS Theatre

The Garden Club

The Lido Cafe

Meat @ Medusa: 9pm: Free

BATS Theatre

Death By Cheerleader: 8pm: $18

Death By Cheerleader: 8pm: $18 / First Asian A* B*: 6pm: $18

BODEGA

Back Paddock Sessions

A late night rendezvous w/ Paperscissors...after the game of course

Mighty Mighty

FOXGLOVE

BODEGA

The Harbour Union, The Eastern, Barry Saunders: 9:30pm: $15

DJ B-Lo

San Fran Bath House

Takas

Fuyuko’s Fables EP Releases show w/ Big River Chain: 8pm: Free

FOXTAIL HAPPY

Tommy & The Fallen Horses, Jesse Sheehan, Finn Johnson

Thu 22

MATTERHORN

BATS Theatre

MEDUSA

DJ Mike Fabulous

First Asian A* B* : 6pm: $18 / Death By Cheerleader: 8pm: $18

Fear The Setting Sun (AU) w/ Of Blackest Oceans, Elephant Of The Ocean, Authors

Bodega

Meow

Acoustic joy & Psyche rock: 8pm: $5

CAVERN CLUB

The Nouns, The Gentlemen Callers, Anna Parsons

HAPPY

Rutger & Wendy, Diving & Lady Parts

Mighty Mighty

Delete Delete Delete, The Dickens & DJ Terry Styles: 9pm: $5

SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE Pajama Club

SANDWICHES

Goldie & MC LowQui (Metalheadz, UK) Fabric Live Tour

Special Presentation: Master World Percussionist & Jazz Musician, Tom Teasley Supported by Eb & Sparrow + Guests: 8pm: Free

Mighty Mighty

A Fistful of Doo-Riffs: 9:30pm: $10

Paramount Cinema Mr Mime & Friends: 10pm

Russian Frost Farmers

Substance: Equinox Edition Newtown Rocksteady & Fraser Ross & the Felt Tips w/ DJ Art Official & Israel Starr: 9pm: $10

THE PARAMOUNT Mr Mime & Friends

The Quiet Lady

Elaine Abras: 6pm: Free

Sat 24 Bar Medusa

FIIN’s debut EP release party ‘Self Flagellation’: 8pm: $10

BATS Theatre

First Asian A* B*: 6pm: $18 / Death By Cheerleader: 8pm: $18

Bettys

Mi Casa Su Casa ft. Jamie D (Cave Recordings, Guesthouse Records): 10pm: Free

The Neil Billington Blues Band: 8:30pm: Free

The Rimutaka Tavern Zombie Ball: 8pm: $5

THISTLE HALL

Wellington Sound Trilogy 2011

Sun 25 BODEGA

Quilmes Party

Meow

Acoustic Routes New Horizons Concert: 7:30pm: $15

San Fran Bathhouse Jess Chambers ‘Desire’ Concert: 8pm: $20

The Lido Cafe

The Boptet: 7pm: Free

BODEGA

Alphashift w/ Kabanaz & Zorn

FOXGLOVE

DJ Ayesha Kee

THE LIDO

The Neil Billington Blues Band

MATTERHORN The Eggs

The All Seeing Hand presents SEA OF HANDS Women’s Refuge Fundraiser: 9pm: $10

Mighty Mighty

San Fran Bath House

San Fran Bath House

Little Bushman & Electric Wire Hustle: 8:30pm: $30

Vinyl Club record fair

Tue 27 BATS Theatre

First Asian A* B*: 6pm: $18

BODEGA

Tuesday Night Speakeasy - Swing Dance Night

MarineVille & Terror of the Deep: 9:30pm: $5 Little Bushman & Electric Wire Hustle: 8:30pm: $30

Christchurch gig guide Wed 21 FINNEGANS

Ben Campbell & Friends

THE BREWERY

The Eastern Family

THE VENUE-MUSICBAR The Venue Open Mic

CPSA BUILDING, CPIT New Music Collective Presents Live at CPSA

EVENTS VILLAGE

The Thursday Sessions

FINNEGANS

Thursday Night Jam Sessions

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PIERSIDE CAFE

CIBURB BAR

POMEROY’S

Virduoso

Ollie

CLUB 22

SALSA LATINA STUDIOS

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The Right to Talk to Strangers EP release tour w/ Nadia Reid, Uncle Srcim & Terror at Ten Thousand Feet: 8pm: Free

THE VENUE-MUSICBAR UCSA & BandSoc Presents Battle of the Bands Finals

FUEL BAR

Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

Maestro B

The Brewery

Karaoke - D.J Chick

Salsa Night

CIBURB BAR Insane Jane

CLUB 22 DJ Nick T

FUEL BAR

Fuel Bar presents Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

PIERSIDE CAFE

Fri 23

Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand

ARANUI HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE

Christchurch Arts Festival - Fathers & Sons

Christchurch Arts Festival - C’mon Black

THE BEDROCK BAR Lincoln Drive

TELSTRACLEAR CLUB THE BREWERY

Keepin’ On w/ Veitch & Ussher

THE VENUE-MUSICBAR Cut Off Your Hands

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Christchurch gig guide CONT. Sat 24

FERRYMEAD ALE HOUSE

206 BARBADOES ST

FUEL BAR

Elysium Fields Presents The Elegant Skull

THE BEDROCK BAR FireBird

BROOMFIELD

Spring Equinox 2011

CIBURB BAR Studio 54

CLUB 22 DJ Mike T

ELMWOOD COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM Christchurch Arts Festival - C’mon Black

EVENTS VILLAGE The BATS in the park

Smashbox

Fuel Bar presents Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

Mt Olympus Ski Field MEL PARSONS & THE RHYTHM KINGS: 12pm: Free

NORTH HAGLEY PARK Garden Variety - The Bats w/ Custard Bear

TELSTRACLEAR CLUB

Christchurch Arts Festival Richard Nunns / Christchurch Arts Festival - Fathers & Sons

THE BREWERY

Familia Moja Benefit Concert

THE GEO DOME

Christchurch Arts Festival Footnote Made in New Zealand

THE NUT POINT CENTRE Concert no 2 of the Jazz 2011: Classical Jazz

Sun 25 CIBURB BAR D’sendantz

THE GEO DOME

Christchurch Arts Festival Footnote Made in New Zealand

NO 4

Sunday Sessions

POMEROY’S

Bongo From the Congo

TELSTRACLEAR CLUB

Christchurch Arts Festival Mike Nock Trio / Christchurch Arts Festival - C’mon Black

WIGRAM AIRFORCE MUSEUM

Christchurch Arts Festival - Christchurch Memorial

Mon 26 PIERSIDE CAFE

Nuttin Trivial - Quiz Night

Tue 27 BEALEY ALE HOUSE

Jamming w/ the Jamesons

CBS ARENA

Christchurch Arts Festival - NZSO Odes to Joy

hamilton gig guide

dunedin gig guide Wed 21

Sat 24

THu 22

Sat 24

REFUEL

CHICKS HOTEL

Cambridge Municipal Band Rooms

Claudelands Arena

Hunting Bears, Cult Disney & Julian Temple Band

Subculture (Qtwn) Dread Bass Wednesdays Ping Pong Comp: 9pm: $5

We are the Mainstream festival presents -Gate, John White, Ded Sparrows & Gold Medal Famous

Refuel

Mountaineater & Left Or Right w/ Thundercub: 8pm: $15

Thu 22

SAMMY’S

Chicks hotel

Subculture (Qtwn)

Live & Loud Heartloud Tour: 8pm

Subculture (Qtwn)

The SubStation (DnB): 9pm: Free

Fri 23 DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Haunted Love Album Release Show

Glue Gallery

MY,OH. ALBUM RELEASE: 10pm: $5

The Verlaines & Cut Off Your Hands Tsubliminal & The Madhatter MC (aka JB Naste): 9pm: $5

The Church

TLA, Mansweat & The Falconets: 9pm: $2

Subculture (Qtwn) Electric Fridays: 9pm

Hellmilton Roller Ghouls Present: Bout Bloody Time

The Meteor

Cock & Bull

The Glencoe Massacre Pageant

Hayden Booth

VOID

Diggers Bar

Ringworm (US): 7pm: $20

Tempist Fujit

Waikato Museum

Huntly RSA

Musical Feast

Ardijah: Le Voyage

Fri 23

Tue 27

Cock & Bull

Cock & Bull

Hayden Booth

Tuesday Trivia

Diggers Bar

Sun 25 Taste Merchants

Simon Comber The Right to Talk to Strangers EP release w/ Michael Steven: 4pm: $5

REFUEL

We are the Mainstream festival presents - Psychic Maps, Death By Silo, The Doyleys & Gold Medal Famous

Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band

Get Toasted w/ Zionhill, N-N-Jah & TWK Soundsystem: 8pm: $20

Flow

The York St Studios Band Experiments 2011

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Tokoroa Cosmopolitan Club Ardijah: Le Voyage

Mon 26 REFUEL

Open Mic Night

Trees Tavern Tempist Fujit

Waikato Museum Foreskin’s Lament

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tours & events

Upcoming tours & events 95 bFM Nirvana Tribute Show

Fri 23 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland

Alice Cooper (US) Thu 22 Sep The Trusts Stadium, Auckland

Alizarin Lizard

Wed 21 Sep The Tap, Mapua Thu 22 Sep Baby G’s, Nelson Fri 23 Sep Dolce Bar, Nelson Sat 24 Sep Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura Fri 30 Sep Refuel, Dunedin

Amiria Grenell Album Release Tour

Sat 24 Sep The Playhouse, Nelson Thu 29 Sep Telstra Clear Club, Christchurch Arts Festival

Anika Moa & Barnaby Weir Acoustic Tour

Thu 29 Sep Town Hall, Raglan Fri 30 Sep The Charter Club, Whakatane Sat 01 Oct Underground Cellar, Havelock North Thu 06 Oct The Garden Club, Wellington Fri 07 Oct Regent Theatre, Hokitika Sat 08 Oct The Boat House, Nelson Thu 13 Oct Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Fri 14 Oct Rippon Hall, Wanaka Sat 15 Oct Wunderbar, Lyttleton Sun 16 Oct Cinema, Geraldine

Bachelorette

Fri 07 Oct The Archive (Darkroom), Christchurch Sat 08 Oct Glue Gallery, Dunedin Fri 14 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sun 16 Oct Galatos, Auckland

BaseFM’s Radiowaves Sat 01 Oct Sawmill Cafe, Leigh Fri 30 Oct Rakinos, Auckland

Subtract, Devilskin & Decortica

The Drab Doo Riffs

Goldie (UK)

Big Day Out 2012

EarthTonz NYE Music Festival ft. Tommy Lee (US), DJ Aero (US) & more

Hall & Oates (US)

Sat 31 Dec Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt

Fri 20 Jan Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Black Dice (US)

Wed 05 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland

The Business (UK)

Wed 02 Nov Dunedin Musicians Club, Dunedin Thu 03 Nov Al’s Bar, Christchurch Fri 04 Nov Bodega, Wellington Sat 05 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland

Camp A Low Hum 2012

Thu 09 Feb - Mon 13 Feb 203 Coast Road, RD 1, Wainuiomata

Chris Cornell (US)

Sun 02 Oct Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Tue 04 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland Wed 05 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland

Cold Chisel (AU)

Fri 02 Dec TSB Arena, Wellington Sat 03 Dec Vector Arena, Auckland

Coromandel Gold w/ The Adults, Shapeshifter, Shihad, Trinity Roots & More Fri 23 Sep The VenueMusicbar, Christchurch Sat 24 Sep Sammy’s, Dunedin Sat 01 Oct Galatos, Auckland

Death By Cheerleader

Baths (US)

Sun 23 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington

Bella Kalolo

Fri 23 Sep The Globe, Palmerston North Fri 30 Sep Juice Bar, Auckland Sat 01 Oct Orca Bar, Raglan Mon 10 Oct Queens Wharf RWC HQ, Auckland

Beyond The Black NYE Festival ft. Tainted, 18

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Eddie Izzard (UK)

Mon 07 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington Tue 08 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington Wed 09 Nov The Civic, Auckland Thu 10 Nov The Civic, Auckland Fri 11 Nov The Civic, Auckland

Tue 20 Sep - Sat 24 Sep BATS Theatre, Wellington

Def Leppard (US) & Heart (US) Wed 12 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland

Wed 21 Sep Revolver, Queenstown Thu 22 Sep Sandwiches, Wellington Fri 23 Sep Zen, Auckland

Sat 28 Jan Church Road Winery, Napier Sun 29 Jan Villa Maria Estate, Auckland

The Harbour Union

Wed 21 Sep Mighty Mighty, Wellington Thu 22 Sep St Peters Town Hall, Paekakariki

Horusset

Sat 01 Oct The Royal, Palmerston North Sat 15 Oct After Dark, Rotorua

The House of Capricorn Album Release Tour

Sat 01 Oct Audio Foundation HQ, Auckland Sun 02 Oct The Wine Cellar, Auckland Mon 03 Oct The ARC, Wanganui Wed 05 Oct None Gallery, Dunedin Thu 06 Oct The Archive, Christchurch Fri 07 Oct Happy, Wellington Sat 08 Oct Fred’s, Wellington

Cut Off Your Hands

Mon 26 Sep - Sat 22 Oct The Basement , Auckland

Sat 31 Dec Gibbston Valley Station, Queenstown

C. Spencer Yeh (US)

Fri 30 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Sat 31 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel

BaSEmentFest.2011

Sat 24 Sep Space Monster, Whanganui Fri 30 Sep Static, Hamilton

Fri 21 Oct Whammy Bar, Auckland Fri 28 Oct The Venue, Christchurch Sat 29 Oct No. 8 Wired, Timaru

Electric Wire Hustle Fri 23 Sep San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 24 Sep San Fran Bath House, Wellington

Explosions In The Sky (US)

Thu 15 Dec San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 16 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

The Fetish Ball

Sat 29 Oct Studio, Auckland Sat 12 Nov The Venue, Christchurch

First Asian A* B*

Thu 22 Sep - Sat 01 Oct BATS Theatre, Wellington

Fleet Foxes (US)

Fri 13 Jan The Hunter Lounge, Wellington Sat 14 Jan Auckland Town Hall, Auckland

Fly My Pretties

Jess Chambers Album Release Tour 2011

Thu 22 Sep The Wine Cellar, Auckland Sun 25 Sep San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 30 Sep Fairfield House, Nelson

John Waters (US): This Filthy World Mon 31 Oct The Opera House, Wellington Wed 02 Nov The Civic, Auckland

La De Da Festival w/ Fat Freddy’s Drop, Donovan Frankenreiter (US), Katchafire, State of Mind, Concord Dawn & More Fri 30 Dec Dry River Road, Martinborough Sat 31 Dec Dry River Road, Martinborough

Laneway Festival 2012 Mon 30 Jan Silo Park, Auckland

Sat 29 Oct The Regent, Dunedin Sun 30 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Mon 31 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Thu 10 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Fri 11 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Sat 19 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington

Defamer (AU)

Foo Fighters (US) w/ Tenacious D (US)

Disasteradio

Frenzal Rhomb (AU)

Left Or Right, Mountaineater Frozon & Freezor NZ Tour 2011

Galaxie 500

Live and Loud Heartland tour 2011

Fri 18 Nov The Basement, Auckland

Fri 07 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 14 Oct The Archive, Christchurch Sat 15 Oct TBA, Dunedin Fri 21 Oct Arc Theatre, Wanganui Fri 28 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington

Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland

Fri 28 Oct Bodega, Wellington Sat 29 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland

Fri 14 Oct Bodega, Wellington Thu 20 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland

Sat 24 Sep Refuel, Dunedin

Fri 23 Sep Traffers, Gore

tours & events

Upcoming tours & events Portishead (UK)

Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

The Shake Up (AU)

Fri 30 Sep Cassette Nine, Auckland Sat 01 Oct Mighty Mighty, Wellington

Sweet 3 ft/ J. Williams, Adeaze, Aaradhna, Young Sid & More

Mangawhai NYE Party Sat 31 Dec Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai

Meatloaf (US)

Wed 26 Oct TSB Bank Arena, Wellington Fri 28 Oct Bay Park Arena, Tauranga Sat 29 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland

Raggamuffin 2012

Monkey Killer Records 3rd Birthday

Rhythm & Alps

Mono (JP)

Rhythm & Vines 2011-2012

Sun 16 Oct Bennu & XII Below, Dunedin

Sat 01 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland

The Moody Blues (UK

Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua

Wed 28 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt Thu 29 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt

Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec Waiohika Estate, Gisborne

Mulatu Astatke (ET)

Rhythm & Vines Side Show w/ Diplo, Katy B, Magnetic Man, Digitalism & Ruby Frost

Mylo (UK)

Ringworm (US)

The Naked And Famous

Rippon Festival

Sat 26 Nov Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sun 27 Nov The Civic Theatre, Auckland

Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Wed 28 Sep Studio, Auckland

Fri 04 Nov Town Hall, Auckland

New Zealand Improv Festival 2011 Tue 11 Oct - Sat 15 Oct BATS Theatre, Wellington

Northern Lights Festival ft. tiki, p money, concord dawn, bulletproof & more

Thu 29 Sep Vector Arena, Auckland

Wed 21 Sep The Kings Arms, Auckland Thu 22 Sep Void, Hamilton

Sat 04 Feb Rippon Vineyard, Lake Wanaka

Roger Waters: The Wall (US) Sat 18 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 20 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Wed 22 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Thu 23 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Shotgun Alley

Wed 12 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland Thu 13 Oct The Shed, Rotorua Fri 14 Oct Brewers Bar, Tauranga Sat 15 Oct The Cabana, Napier Thu 20 Oct Bodega, Wellington Fri 21 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 22 Oct Zeal, Auckland Thu 27 Oct Butterbank Bar, Whangarei Fri 28 Oct Refuel, Dunedin Sat 29 Oct The Venue, Christchurch

Simon Comber - The Right to Talk to Strangers EP release tour

Thu 20 Oct Altitude Bar, Hamilton Fri 21 Oct Altitude Bar, Hamilton Sat 22 Oct Altitude Bar, Hamilton

Tahuna Breaks & david dallas Sat 22 Oct Coroglen Tavern, Coromandel Sun 23 Oct Gisborne Food & Wine Festival, Gisborne

Taylor Swift (US)

Fri 16 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Sat 17 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Sun 18 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland

Thu 22 Sep The Brewery, Christchurch Sun 25 Sep Taste Merchants, Dunedin

Six60

Wed 12 Oct The Hunter Lounge, Wellington Thu 13 Oct Saints & Sinners, Invercargill Fri 14 Oct Town Hall, Dunedin Fri 11 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Tempo Dance Festival

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Tuborg Summer Sunday

Wed 31 Aug - Sat 10 Sep BATS Theatre, Wellington

Splore 2012

Fri 17 Feb - Sun 19 Feb Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland

Fri 30 Sep - Sat 08 Oct Q Theatre, Auckland

Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music Mountain, Matakana

We Came As Romans (US) Sat 29 Oct Zeal, Auckland

Wellington International Ukulele Orhcestra

Roxette (SE)

Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Fri 30 Dec - Mon 2 Jan Pakiri Beach, Pakiri

Fri 23 Sep Eltham Town Hall, Eltham Sat 24 Sep Eltham Town Hall, Eltham Sun 25 Sep Te Manawa, Palmerston North Sat 01 Oct Odlins Plaza, Wellington Fri 07 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sun 09 Oct Odlins Plaza, Wellington

Old Loaves & Spook The Horses Fri 14 Oct Tabac, Auckland Sat 15 Oct Void, Hamilton

Pajama Club

Sat 03 Dec San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sun 04 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

The Phoenix Foundation Fri 23 Sep Caroline Bay Sound Shell, Timaru Thu 29 Sep Rugby Village Fanzone, Wellington Fri 07 Oct Rugby Village Fanzone, Wellington Thu 13 Oct The Strand, Tauranga Sat 03 dec Wine & Food Festival, Christchurch

Salmonella Dub Fri 04 Nov The Hunter Lounge, Wellington

Sir Richard Branson (UK) Thu 20 Oct Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland

Spring Break

Thu 05 Nov The Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier

Steely Dan (US) & Steve Winwood (UK) Fri 04 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

Winterfest

Sat 24 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth Sun 25 Sep The Bigtop, New Plymouth

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Sony have annouced a new walkman which will be powered by andriod, sounds good. www.sony.co.nz

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GAMING Above and Beyond Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Our excitement this week sees us wetting our pants over playing soldier, being all army and convincing ourselves we’d be good snipers in real life.

The new Call of Duty is set for release in early November.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the latest installment in the franchise, and follows COD: Black Ops, which pretty much nailed all aspects of a video game release any way you look

at it (biggest game release of all time and biggest entertainment release of all time).

PR wise, the publishers are all of course delighted, over the moon, extremely proud, etc etc.

They’re saying that the game has “the most advanced multiplayer ever”, whatever that means.

However, one of the problems we find with online playing on platforms other than PC is the chronic lag we seem to get. That’s not a stab at COD or any other game – that’s just our country’s ridiculous broadband being a complete pile of shit. But that’s off the point.

The game will be hitting stores Tuesday 08 November on PC, Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and NDS. There’s plenty of info and preview clips online at callofduty.com.

Rise Of Nightmares: Xbox 360 Kinect Game Review

Rise of Nightmares is the latest R18 Sega first-person offering on the Xbox 360 Kinect. It’s a journey battling as Josh who, not too unlike myself, seems to have an alcohol problem that is estranging him from his wife Kate. She of course is subsequently zombie-napped, so Josh becomes landed with the perilous task of her rescue from mad scientist Viktor who has an uncanny knack of being able to put flesh and metal together in a Frankenstein like montage of new-age zombie to inflict all sorts of pain on mankind.

You get a variety of weapons in which to slay your way through a mansion in Eastern Europe that to me conjures up

being stuck in a zombie fuelled version of the movie Hostel. As with any zombie game, the fun is in the killing, and it certainly is fun to do that.

A main feature touted with this game is that it’s not on rails. Walking is harder than you might think. Slaying zombies however is not, and is by far the high point of gameplay. To walk you place one foot out front.

Turning your shoulders turns the character. Depending on which weapon you’re holding decides the motion needed to slay your foe. The chainsaw Josh gets his hands on early in the game is particularly fun for said slaying.

Even with the freedom of no rails, I was more than happy to raise my right arm frequently to kick in the automated movement feature between battles.

Will I be playing it this time next year? Probably not. But Rise of Nightmares is definitely worth getting your arse up off the couch for to slay some zombies.

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album reviews The Rapture In The Grace Of Your Love

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Four albums in and New York trio The Rapture have finally realised that hey, maybe the world won’t end if they don’t write a ballsto-the-wall dance song, and so it is on Grace... the sound of a band desperately searching for the middle ground and a meaning outside of their usual beat-based disco jams. Right from the get-go there’s a darker, more subdued and wholly less energetic mood without sacrificing any vibrancy or guts.

Thankfully what they achieve here leans towards a soulful set of songs driven by propulsive rhythms, as opposed to their

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It’s a shame a band this good isn’t much better known. This, their first full-length album, follows last year’s excellent Late Night Kebab EP. Quirky and left-field poet/front man Shane Hollands unashamedly draws thematic and stylistic inspiration from beat writers of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Here he presents a collection of poems that range from finely nuanced wordcraft to beat-style streamof-consciousness narratives.

The album covers a diverse range of styles; jazz, funk, rock and even metal all knitted together by the high quality of its musical ideas and musicianship.

Standout tracks include ‘The Lament Of Paris’, a wistful tale of love unrequited, the tender ‘Stolen Kisses’, and ‘My Poetry Is An Alcoholic Pitbull’ — a clever piece of writing that features bassist Rod Redgrave playing a moody solo accompaniment on upright acoustic.

What will be interesting is how this band continues to develop as one of the more unusual and interesting local musical ventures.

If their name tries just a little too hard to capture the zeitgeist, musically Panther and the Zoo suffer no such pretensions. Casually produced

by Bob Frisbee with the same off-handedness he lent to Street Chant’s excellent debut Means, More Fun offers a kind of Pavement-style ramshackleness that is hard to resist. ‘Wake Up’ is reminiscent of The Smiths, ‘Everything, Everyone’ invokes prime-era The Strokes, and ‘Do Whatever’ isn’t unlike very early Garageland. Band leader Graham Panther (ex-Ruby Suns) has accumulated an impressive array of songs, and the sometimes plaintive quality to his vocals contrasts perfectly with the upbeat guitar jangle. More Fun is self-released and potentially easily missed, but this album is highly deserving of a wide audience. If you can’t find a copy at your local record store then head to bandcamp.com and download it digitally for just ten bucks. This is truly independent New Zealand music at its finest.

Photonic is the brainchild of Auckland’s Craig Scott. Under this pseudonym he has created an album of bizarre riff rock that could very well melt your brain. If anything, this album is daringly hard to classify. The songs range from spaced-out ambience (‘Camera Stellata’) to downright bruisers (‘5htp’).

Under the furious torrent of guitar noise you can often make out the distant sound of lyrics; the fact they are a little buried in the mix gives them some serious mystique. Amidst the guitar muck are some tasty hip-hop beats completely repurposed for this brand of snarling devolved rock. Rif Mountains definitely lives up to its name. Coming to the end of the album, ending with the punishing 27-minute ‘&’, it’s hard to believe that this is the work of just one man.

The Wolf Gang kick ignorant raps over versatile production.

Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats and Left Brain recorded BlackenedWhite before the group stirred up a cult-like frenzy. The album’s re-release has a slimmed down run time of 40 minutes and the strange removal of favourite track `Chordaroy’.

Despite the hype, Hodgy sounds like a juvenile Big Sean and often resorts to rap clichés.

There are a few hot lines, but his rhymes lack the unique shock value of group leader Tyler, The Creator.

Luckily, the production ultimately saves the project.

Left Brain proves he’s a potential star with catchy unpolished beats, which seem perfectly catered to Hodgy’s flow. ‘Primo’ and ‘Right Here’ sound like a heavenly smoker’s session, while ‘Igotagun’ creates a thumping horror story.

BlackenedWhite won’t change the mind of Odd Future sceptics, but rare glimpses of talent make it a fun listen.

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previous fare of purely beatfocussed forays with only a touch of soul. ‘Come Back To Me’ and the title track stand as some of their best work to date, both bouncing along by their own momentum rather than yielding to forced rigidity. The Rapture are a band who still have it, even in this day and age.

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Documenting the glorious rise and embarrassing collapse of Creation Records, Upside Down features the kind of verbatim that all documentaries should have. Straight from the gobshite Scottish mouth of founder Alan McGee himself, alongside members of Ride, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus And Mary Chain, House Of Love, Primal Scream, Oasis and a bunch of balding ex-NME and Melody Maker journalists, they all provide a telling portrayal of the singular most important record label of the 1990s.

Spliced between back-andforth interviews and archival

footage – not to mention a licensed soundtrack – the story is told first from McGee’s perspective as a lad growing up with Bobby Gillespie before gradually growing to include some fairly famous faces and endless drug-related anecdotes, each of them insistent in their disbelief that Creation could ever make any money. Yet from the discovery of acid-house, to the championing of shoegaze and the inadvertent creation of Britpop, Creation still remains one of the most influential labels of all time.

Although well edited, Upside Down possesses none of the

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Directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), Jane Eyre is based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte and set in 19th century England.

Imposing a bookending flashback structure, the film opens with a distressed Jane (Mia Wasikowska) stumbling across the moors and collapsing with exhaustion, whereupon she’s taken in by kindly St John Rivers (Jamie Bell) and his two sisters (Holliday Grainger and Tamzin Merchant).

The story then flashes back to reveal what brought Jane to this state, beginning with her orphaned childhood (Amelia Clarkson plays the young Jane) and a heartbreaking experience at the gloomy boarding school she’s sent to by her mean-spirited aunt. When she turns 18 (now played by Wasikowska), Jane takes a job as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she begins to fall for her tempestuous employer Mr Rochester (Michael Fassbender), only to discover that he’s harbouring a terrible secret.

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Wasikowska is wonderful as Jane, delivering a thoughtful, emotionally engaging performance that lets us keenly feel her inner life and the frustrating constraints of her social position. She also has palpable chemistry with Fassbender, who’s on typically superb form as the tortured Rochester; as a result, their relationship is both believable and achingly romantic.

In addition, there’s strong support from a superb cast that includes Jamie Bell, Sally Hawkins, Imogen Poots and Judi Dench, who underplays to strong effect as Mrs Fairfax, the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall.

On top of that, Moira Buffini’s excellent script crackles with great dialogue and ensures that the story is utterly gripping even if you already know the plot.

The film is also stunningly shot, courtesy of cinematographer Adriano Goldman, who gets terrific use out of the various starkly beautiful locations.

Similarly, the lighting in the film is extraordinary; quite apart from anything else, this is the most beautifully lit film you’ll see all year.

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still-frame cool of Grant Gee’s Joy Division, and as such as merely reads as an extended, well-argued, and incredibly entertaining biography.

Although aiming for anyone with even a passing interest in the history of British popular music, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow if you don’t have enthusiasm for at least two of the bands featured, and although not a barrier, the film lacks the sort of openness and direct education of many of its contemporaries.

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for her son, especially as Mike hasn’t told Jackie or Kyle about the court payments.

Giamatti is typically superb as Mike, easily managing to keep his world-weary character sympathetic, despite his initial act of recession-prompted dishonesty. He’s comfortably matched by a terrific Written and directed by Thomas performance from newcomer McCarthy (The Station Agent, Alex Shaffer, whose portrayal The Visitor), Win Win stars Paul of Kyle is both consistently Giamatti as struggling small-town surprising and quietly moving. lawyer and family man Mike In addition, there’s superb Flaherty, who decides to become comic support from Tambor the guardian of senile client Leo and Cannavale, while the (Burt Young) when he realises always-excellent Amy Ryan is there are substantial court on predictably brilliant form payments involved. However, as Jackie; Melanie Lynskey also after putting Leo into a home, works wonders with the film’s Mike is unprepared for the arrival least sympathetic and most of Leo’s 16-year-old grandson Kyle stereotypical part.

(Alex Shaffer), who shows up on The sharply written script Leo’s doorstep when his drugcrackles with great dialogue addicted mother Cindy (Melanie and there are several very Lynskey) goes into rehab. Kyle then funny scenes, particularly the ends up getting taken in by Mike, various interactions between much to the consternation of his Giamatti, Cannavale and wife, Jackie (Amy Ryan).

Tambor (they make a hugely As luck would have it, Kyle likeable comic trio). However, turns out to be a gifted wrestler what really shines through, and Mike sees a way to reverse as with his previous films, is the fortunes of the high school McCarthy’s genuine affection wrestling team that he co-coaches for his characters, flaws and all, in his spare time with his friends while the lurking presence of Terry (Bobby Cannavale) and the recession adds a believably Stephen (Jeffrey Tambor). However, topical edge. things quickly get complicated when Cindy shows up looking Written by Matthew Turner

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MUSIC VIDEOS GRADED FOR YOUR ENJOMENT LEVELS

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Cruel

Fever Dreams

Shell Suite

Polish Girl

St. Vincent

Nurses

Chad Valley

Neon Indian

“Yeah, I’m whimsical. Yeah, I’m quirky. Yeah. I’m like, usually into stuff that’s like, wa-ay harder than just an acoustic guitar. Like, the world is my guitar. So yeah. Deal.” Thank you Facebook for one of the best St. Vincent summations. Aside from that, the video is great.

This video could easily be mistaken for a piece of shit. But it’s not. In fact, it’s the editing that really makes it. A classic example of a simple idea done right. It’s not brilliant, and people who make that ridiculous excuse of “but you need to see it when you’re high” are stupid. But this one’s not too shabby.

People like girls who dress in quirky dresses and run through fields. I get it. Music video directors like to shoot short films and put a track to it. I get it. Sweeping shots of symmetry are very in right now. I get it.

But combining all of those to a music video doesn’t mean it will be good.

The attention to detail with all of the homemade electronics and robotics gets full points.

It feels like there are bits of Ziggy Stardust or general Bowie references, and the fauxtechnology in it looks like a mix between what the ‘70s thought the future would look like mixed with actual impressive SFX.

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Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution

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Waiting For A Holiday

Blue Jeans

Playing House

Meese

Lana del Rey

Active Child

There’s a reason you see so many costumes in New Zealand music videos. It’s to do with budgeting. That’s basically Meese’s new video. Costumes and a green screen. Or is it blue screen? Some coloured screen.

Except they’ve added bunnies which are pretty cute, and Acting. With a capital A.

So ‘Video Games’ was one of the better found footage videos we’ve seen in a while, and the song is a real tear jerker. So when the b-side to that single comes out, it’s understandable if you want to do something similar. But exactly the same? I get it. Zeitgeist. Found footage.

Celebrities. Worse song.

Alright! The worst video this week also goes to the worst song on this page! Smoke effects are lame dude, and so are you. Stop feigning emotion and singing to the camera while reflecting on your past. She’s gone, because you are a fool. This piece of shit is so bad, it’s laughable. Wait, maybe it’s a spoof?

Cut Copy

Think Planet of the Apes featuring green-screened severed limbs and heads of the Cut Copy crew, minus the blood to achieve a general release rating. Said limbs and heads make music while manmonkeys hold them. Okay idea, average execution.

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Listophile Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

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1. The Sun

X-Ray Fiends

2. What The Water Gave Me Florence and The Machine

3. Boyfriend

The Naked & Famous

2. The Hellcat Spangled

3. What The Water Gave Me

The Eversons

4. Thunder Bay Hudson Mowhawke

Florence and The Machine

4. Gotye ft. Kimbra Somebody That I Used to Know

5. Candyman Shimmer The Checks

6. Do Whatever Panther and the zoo

7. Free All The Monsters The Bats

8. Yo Pro Mean Girls

9. Lunatic Fringe The Drab Doo Riffs

10. Whitechapel S.C.U.M

Shalalala Artic Monkeys

5. Helena Beat Foster The People

6. Who Said You’re Free Midnight Youth

7. A Long Time Mayer Hawthorne

the top 10 movies of the week, thanks to flicks

1. The Help 2. Friends with Benefits 3. Win Win 4. Crazy, Stupid, Love 5. The Change-Up 6. The Holy Roller 7. Shark Night 3D 8. Hanna 9. TT3D: Closer to the Edge 10. Love Story

8. Good Intent Kimbra

9. Don’t Play No Game Beastie Boys

10. I Stand Alone Theophilus London

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3. First Of The Year (Equinox) Skrillex

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Emile Sande

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10. Zipster Ben Stiller in There’s Something About Mary

Jones Remix) Azari & III

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Remix) 4th Measure Man

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Remix) The One Hundred

1. Kev In The City 2 Kevin Bacon drinks, shops and talks about sex. Again.

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