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An opera in three acts sung in German with English surtitles Duration: 5 hours 40 minutes including two intervals

WAGNER The Valkyrie (Die Walküre) Simon O’Neill Siegmund Edith Haller Sieglinde Christine Goerke Brünnhilde John Wegner Wotan Jonathan Lemalu Hunding Margaret Medlyn Fricka Pietari Inkinen Conductor Plus eight of New Zealand’s finest singers as the Valkyries

THE VALKYRIE New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents

Wagner’s epic tale of gods and men An opera in concert

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”... the experience of

hearing a whole Wagner opera is unforgettable.”

– Peter Shaw North & South Magazine

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With support from Wagner Society of New Zealand Patron: Sir Donald McIntyre

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Chris Brown and Drake may or may not have gotten into a scuffle in New York last week. The two r’n’b sensations reportedly came to confrontation on Wednesday 13 June when the two started arguing over Rihanna who they have both had relationships with.

Brown’s people claimed that Drake threw a bottle his way, resulting in Brown posting a picture of his gashed chin on Twitter and having a go at Drake’s crew. Drake has denied his involvement in the brawl that erupted.

The news gets juicier with the report that a woman has claimed she was injured during the fight. Lucy Pavlovsky suffered a gash to her arm requiring 12 stitches and may try to sue one or both of the stars.

The Auckland Zinefest is back, but things are a little different this time around. Zinefest will be partnering with First Thursdays on K Road in August. One of the organisers told us the theme is DIY, so no mass production zines are allowed. If they exist. Zinefest will have the usual zine market inside St Kevin’s Arcade and the craft market by Foxes will move across the road for this one instance.

The Auckland Public Library is also getting on board, bringing a selection of their zine collection for display. More information is to come as well as further announcements concerning pop-up workshops. Head to aucklandzinefest.org or kroad. com for more information.

Following their number one chart debut, successful disorderly 48-hour album release party, and controversial Pop-Up Store on Ponsonby Road in Auckland, the three-headed misfit beast that is Home Brew have announced they’ll be taking their show on the road in July before heading to Australia to woo (or say fuck you to) crowds. Accompanied by their sevenpiece band as well as DJ Substance, Home Brew’s Speakeasy tour will hit six venues around the country as the beatmakers play in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Queenstown, Dunedin and Christchurch.

See the tours pages for dates and venues.

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Rumours are suggesting that The Rolling Stones live performance at Glastonbury 2013 will be their final live show ever. While it’s nothing new that Mick Jagger and crew say that they’re calling it quits, next year will be The Rolling Stones 50th anniversary. Could the five decade milestone see the band stop performing live?

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Great Job!

For the first time, seemingly out of nowhere, Tim and Eric from [adult swim]’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! have announced a New Zealand show in October. The American sketch comedians have performed alongside some of the finest comedic talent around today making guest appearances on shows, cameos in movies and of course having a plethora of comedians appear on their own show, not to mention the recently released Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie.

The live show has previously been performed in the US and UK, and now Kiwi audiences are lucky enough to see the duo’s notorious nutty antics. Tim and Eric will play at Auckland’s Powerstation on Saturday 06 October. Tickets go on sale Friday 22 June through Ticket Master.

Bailterspace Announce Return

Kiwi yesteryear alt-rock icons Bailterspace have announced they’ll be releasing a new album after a 13 year hiatus. Pitchfork loves them, music snobs love them and the layman loves them, so the amount of excitement across Facebook and Twitter was no surprise when the news hit last week that Bailterspace founding members Alister Parker (The Gordons) and Hamish Kilgour (The Clean) along with the rest of the gang would be releasing the new effort Strobosphere. The album will be released in August through Arch Hill Recordings in New Zealand and Australia and through Fire Records in America and Europe. The band’s latest single ‘No Sense’ is available at archhillrecordings.bandcamp.com.

KIMBRA COMEBACK

The Auckland University Students Association has announced that Kimbra will be playing her first New Zealand show since storming the charts in the US alongside fellow heavyweights The Black Seeds, Mt Eden, Ruby Frost and Vandalism.

This massive line-up and extremely rare opportunity is being held at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Saturday 28 July, and tickets are only $20 for University of Auckland students. If you’re not a student at Auckland University, you can still buy tickets for $65 through Ticket Master. More info can be found at ausa.org.nz.

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Who’s in the dead supergroup for your dream hologram show?

A Hologram show wouldn’t cut the mustard for me, especially one of my heroes. Maybe Sam Cooke If I had to name one.

Where can your stalkers find you during the weekend?

Having breakfast on Karangahape Rd, a friend’s flat or somewhere with sun. At night, Whammy and the Wine cellar always have live music – always good to catch up with friends at the shows there.

Your fantasy spirit animal is…

Haku, in dragon form from Spirited Away.

Your signature “I’m an amazing cook” dish is…

Boil up.

The best TV show around at the moment is…

Game of Thrones has been off the hook!

You’d get arrested if the police knew that you…

Stole heaps of stuff from this… Smashed this fulla outside… Sparked up a… outside their office. Yeah, I’d be buggered if knew that…

Five celebs on your f**klist?

Marion Cotillard. This is a one of those trick questions aye! I’ll stop there.

Back when Freeview was just the little digital television service provider that could, there was channel called TVNZ 7.

TVNZ 7 was set up along with other government funded channels as an enticing piece of the package to get people keen on the idea of setting up their digital television top box sooner rather than later.

Time came and went. Soon it came time to flick the switch from analogue to digital television regardless of whether people had their top boxes or not. This happened to be the same year that TVNZ 7 would receive no more funding from the government – instead the powers that be have decided that folks on the Gold Coast and other such GC slappers should receive funding in place of cultural and informative programming.

Well, maybe it’s not that black and white.

Television is a business, and businesses need to make money. If TVNZ 7 isn’t making money, investors aren’t going to put their capital into it. That’s strategy 101. You might not like it, but that’s the way the world works.

But just because something’s broken doesn’t mean you stop trying to fix it, right?

While you and your friends might say it’s unfair, it’s also on you and your friends to watch TVNZ 7 and the programming on those shows to make it a viable outlet of ratings.

Don’t be one of the people saying that you support TVNZ 7 but in reality you’ve only ever watched one documentary about the aurora borealis 12 months ago.

If you don’t have Freeview then it’s not on you – you can’t really watch TVNZ 7. You could if you had Sky, but you’re probably watching SoHo, the crime channel or Comedy Central instead. The problem is, now that you have to have a digital television service provider if you want to keep watching the box, you’re going to miss

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What generic current affair has your blood boiled?

Mining in New Zealand and “Aotearoa is not for Sale”.

Plug whatever it is that’s coming up for you.

A show in Hamilton with Rackets. Follow us on the Beach Pigs Facebook page. Also an Auckland season with the Red Leap Theatre Company! This will be exciting as the show The Arrival hasn’t been here in Auckland since the International Arts Festival in 2009. This is a show you cannot miss!

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out on what TVNZ 7 was providing anyway.

You won’t know what you could have had until it’s long gone. When the impending and almost set in stone cancellation of TVNZ 7 happens, New Zealand will no longer have any public service free-to-air channels.

With the closure of TVNZ 7 set for Saturday 30 June, a campaign is in full force to Save TVNZ 7 before it’s too late. Thursday 28 June will see a protest march from the Welington Civic Square in the capital to the Beehive where supporters of the cause will present the Save TVNZ 7 petition to parliament. Ahead of that protest there are public meetings being held around Auckland organised by the people at Save TVNZ 7 (run

by TVNZ 7 viewers and fans, not by TVNZ 7 themselves). If you want to support the cause, see what the panelists (including politicians and specialists from a variety of areas) have to say or you just want to hear people shout a lot because you like Back Benches, meetings will be held at the Milford Bowling Club on Auckland’s North Shore on Friday 22 June; the Orewa Community Centre on Sunday 24 June; the Wiri Community Hall in South Auckland on Monday 25 June; and at the Oratia Settlers Hall on Tuesday 26 June.

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FRIDAY 22

WEDNESDAY 20 US Marine Corps Band

The Raw Nerves

North Hagley Park Events Village

Wunderbar, Lyttelton

gig OF THE WEEK

7pm, FREE

We’ve been putting The Raw Nerves in here pretty much every time they have something on. You know why? Because they are that good. It’s not easy to combine an original garage rock sound and at the same time throw in some sing-along vocals that have you doo-wopping along, but this foursome of misfits do it well.

The US Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band will be giving a public performance at Hagley Park’s Geo Dome as part of the Marine Corps Band’s NZ tour to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of US Forces landing in NZ during WWII. Men in uniform? Totally hot, apparently. Army music? Surprisingly full of wicked percussion.

JJA Jazz Awards

Supermodel & Sleeping Dogs

1885 Britomart

Dux Live 8pm, FREE

8pm, $5-10, Door Sales Only

The 1885 Britomart Creative Jazz Club together with the Auckland Jazz Orchestra are presenting the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards live via satellite this Wednesday. The 16th Annual JJA Jazz Awards is an international black tie event held at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, and this is the chance for Jazzy Jeffs here to see it live.

THURSDAY 21 Ruby Frost

Wellington pop-rock quartet Supermodel are teaming up with Christchurch’s Sleeping Dogs and the two bands are showcasing a bunch of new material. All three shows in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland will be recorded live for an upcoming DVD release as Supermodel get ready to tour around the world, which coincides with the release of Sleeping Dogs’ sophomore album.

Silke & Guests

Bollywood Concert

Lucha Lounge

TelstraClear Events Centre

9pm, $5, Door Sales Only

The Pony Club 8pm, $10-15, undertheradar.co.nz

The ice queen and her merry band of frosty maidens and snowmen will be putting on a cool show this Thursday at Auckland’s Pony Club as part of her Volition tour. Hmm. “cool show” was meant to be another frost pun, but now I just sound like my aunt trying to convince me that her divorcee book club is “cool”. Whatever. It will be “fun”.

Rangatahi Represent

Space Creeps

Te Papa

1885 Britomart 6pm, FREE

A big one at Lucha this weekend with local favourites Silke, Scarlett Lashes, Carb on Carb, HDSPNS and Mean Girls all on the roster. Sorry to all the other bands for not putting you on the headline – a coin was flipped and Silke came out on top.

Full disclosure: there’s no real way to tell what you’re in for if you go to a massive Bollywood party for the first time. But you know how in the movies they do lots of choreographed dance but way better than some Channing Tatum piece of shit? It’s kinda like that.

Five Mile Town

Goodshirt

Old St Pauls Cathedral

San Fran Bath House

$39 Dashtickets.co.nz 9pm, FREE

Catch some of Maori music’s rising stars in performance as part of the Matariki festivities this year at this all-ages showcase at Te Papa. See local up-and-coming talent Majic and Robbie, Manarangi Mua, Arihia and Tahu, Te Paamu and Jah Children.

1885 Britomart and the New Zealand Music Commision continue to host their selection of what’s good every Thursday with Space Creeps taking to the stage at the weekly party presentation. It’s a showcase worth your time, every time.

Great North

Virtuoso Violin

Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Town Hall

Eighteen months after their debut release Newfoundland, Great North are back with the new album Halves.

Auckland’s “coyest alt-country charmers” sing tales of infatuation and heartbreak on this month-long tour around the country.

I made a joke about putting some Goodshirt on the stereo then put my nicest shirts on the stereo. It didn’t go down very well at my flat.

Especially since they weren’t even nice shirts. They were Mambo ones.

But apparently Hawaiian shirts are in fashion now. True story.

Shake Down

Tape Invasion

Canterbury Horticultural

Wine Cellar

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You know how classical music buffs always get a real boner for how magnificent the violin is? There will be a bunch of classical muso-boners at this show as a part of the APN News & Media Premier Series starring virtuoso panty-dropper Sergey Malov.

8.30pm, $30, eventfinder.co.nz

Following the release of their selftitled debut EP, indie folk sensation Five Mile Town play Wellington and Carterton this week with seasoned jazzmen The Nairobi Trio before heading to Australia, then it’s back to New Zealand for shows in Napier and Auckland.

7pm, $5, Door Sales Only 8pm, $10, Door Sales Only

8.30pm, $35-45, ajanachle.co.nz

Youth dance parties are pretty cool, except when all of you kids think you’re smarter than adults and you try to sneak liquor and drugs in. Why you think you can get away with it, I have no idea. But if I can’t sneak a Woodstock into a bar, you can leave your Vodka Cruiser at home as well.

8pm, Door Sales Only

So there are three bands playing at Tape Invasion on Friday at Auckland’s Wine Cellar. One is HUF, the all-CAPS electronic act from Palmerston North.

There’s also Huf, who don’t believe in all-CAPS. Then there’s Dubtext, who fortunately have a different name altogether.

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SATURDAY 23

Hot Chip

MCA Tribute

Cool Rainbows

In Our Heads

Rakinos

Mighty Mighty 10.30pm, Door Sales Only

10pm, Door Sales Only

Cool Rainbows team up with chanting darlings The Eversons for a night of glorious pop at Wellington’s home of good times, Mighty Mighty. The two Lil’ Chief bands celebrate their recent album and single releases.

Any night of Beastie Boys is a night worth your time. The MCA tribute night at Rakinos this Saturday will have you remembering just what you loved about the original sunblock rappers and hip-hop visionaries the Beastie Boys.

Blacklistt

Tomorrow People

Powerstation

San Fran Bath House 8pm, $30, eventfindeR

9pm, $25-30, eventfinder.co.nz

After delighting crowds in the thousands all over the country, Blacklistt finish up their From The Blind Spot tour at Auckland’s Powerstation. Tickets are selling fast and the fans (can we call them blackheadds?) are as loyal as dogs, so get in quick lest you miss out.

The debut album from Tomorrow People has arrived much to the delight of reggae fans around the country. The ensemble are celebrating the release of One and their final gig of the tour in their home town of Wellington is with support from Adeaze, Aroha Owens, TK Paradza and DJ Rox.

Stars of Matariki

AAA DECK SHOW

TelstraClear Events Centre

Northern Steamship

6.30pm, $20-45, ticketdirect.co.nz

The stars come at this dazzling night of Maori culture, live music and sumptuous food hosted by Mayor Len Brown as part of the Matariki festivities. Annie Crummer, BettyAnne Monga, Maisey Rika and Ria Hall are all on the bill for this speciallyarranged collaborative concert.

9PM

Witness the fitness of Adam O and Alias on three turn tables as the two boys throw down a set that promises to have something for everybody. Set in the comfortable surroundings of the Northern Steamship this a one night voyage not to be missed.

TUESDAY 26 Serjey Malov Regent Theatre 7.30pm, $10-45, ticketdirect.co.nz

Having won the 2011 International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, the inaugural Julian Paul Anderson Award for Best Chamber Music Player and the Audience Prize, Russian-born Sergey Malov teams up with pianist Michael Houstoun for a spellbinding programme of virtuosic repertoire.

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With four studio records, a myriad of other works and sabbatical projects, the Hot Chip lads have taken a leap to album five. When it comes to career progression, Hot Chip aren’t exactly renowned for taking huge risks. Their music grows at a snail’s pace (Aesop would surely have listened to Hot Chip) – not by reason of any impediment, but because they’re true to their convictions.

A variety of musical tastes seep through their work, as well as a ska-like sense of irony. While that may not be unique at all, the delivery is. For all the critical adversity their discography has faced there is no denying Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard and co. know what they’re doing.

Pigeon holding is a fun critic game (the term “hipster-house” is being passed about like a hooker at the moment) and for all its comprehensible worth, genre play doesn’t apply to Hot Chip. In Our Heads is proof of their continuing genre-bending.

The first songs in the public realm dabble in the dirty sounds of post-grunge industrial. ‘Night & Day’ has a particularly Reznoresque bass line and for what it’s worth the video is worth a watch just for the homoerotic half-naked men lip sync-rapping to Taylor. ‘Flutes’ is a prosaic trance, captivating and sublime in every sense, with Taylor’s

vocals carrying the story of some kind of relationship strain.

‘Don’t Deny Your Heart’ resuscitates the sounds of Van Halen into something that really is okay to listen to.

‘Motion Sickness’ is the album’s king of synths – it’s a dramatic and powerful opener. Not only does it perfectly showcase a plethora of layers, but it instantly reminds the listener that while it’s fun, they’re not fucking around.

The celebrated and deliberated ironic cynicism of lyrical Hot Chip has matured; it’s less pronounced but very present. They’ve been in the game for over 10 years so it’s not really surprising news – what is, though, is that there seems to be a domesticated approach. ‘How Do You Do’ is an example of a perceptively cynical take on marriage, with quips like “your heart is not for breaking, it’s for beating out all the life in me”. In Our Heads is an ambient journey through an acoustically eclectic landscape that, for all its electro-faux beginnings, feels like genuine handcrafted music. Hot Chip, kudos.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER ALBUM OUT NOW: IN OUR HEADS

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Thursday 21

Serjey Malov

Kaha

violinist & violist

Q Theatre Thu 21 - Sat 23 Jun 7.30pm, $19-29, qtheatre.co.nz

Eight short works from leading choreographers Moss Patterson, Taane Mete and Jack Gray, Kaha maintains that it’s far from your normal dance theatre experience. The touring high-velocity contemporary performance plays for three nights at Auckland’s Q Theatre from Thursday through to Saturday.

Try This

Square Eye Pair

Bats Theatre

Fortune Theatre Mon 18 – Sat 23 Jun 8pm, $15, , R15 patronbase.com

Tue 19 - Sat 23 Jun 8pm, $14-18, bats.co.nz

Running from Tuesday 19 July through to Saturday 23 July, Try This is dance that focuses on more than movement and explores how you taste, smell, hear, feel and see. Indulge your senses in this new work from choreographer Fleur Cameron.

The Best Comedy winner of the Auckland Fringe Festival 2011 heads to Dunedin this week. A bromantic comedy if ever there was one, Square Eye Pair is for anyone who owns box sets of Friends, Seinfeld or has been poked on Facebook.

FRIDAY 22 World Press Photo Exhibition The Nathan Club Fri 22 Jun – Sun 15 Jul 9.30am, $5-10, Door Sales Only

The World Press Photo Exhibition is the world’s most prestigious exhibition of international current affairs photography. A public showcase of photojournalism and award-winning images from around the world, this is a rare opportunity to see guerilla, veteran and offbeat journalism in a memorable display of stories.

Who’s in the dead supergroup for your dream hologram show?

Michael Jackson performing with Nicolò Paganini.

What’s an upcoming film you’re jazzed about?

Toccata, with me playing the Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue, produced by my brother. It just needs to be commissioned, written and filmed first.

Where can your stalkers find you during the weekend?

In a billiard bar.

What happens when you mix Coca Cola with Pepsi?

I thought everyone knew?

The best TV show around at the moment is…

Anything Euro 2012.

The best place for a date night is…

Opera, the cinema, the park – and if those aren’t available, McDonald’s (always romantic!).

You’d get arrested if the police knew that you…

Brought an apple from Berlin to NZ. People say you look like…

A Frenchman.

Kittens or puppies?

Kippies.

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Your fantasy spirit animal is…

The Kiwi bird.

Your signature “I’m an amazing cook” dish is…

Eggplant with eggs and salad.

Fri 22 Jun Little Theatre, Lower Hutt Sun 24 Jun Memorial Hall, Queenstown Tue 26 Jun Regent Theatre, Dunedin Wed 27 Jun Civic Theatre, Invercargill Fri 29 Jun The Winery, Blenheim Sat 30 Jun Chanel Arts Centre, Motueka Sun 01 Jul Memorial Hall, Waikanae

SATURDAY 23 Aotea Square Ice Rink

Ian McKellen

Kevin! The Musical

Aotea Square

The Opera House

The Meteor 7.30pm, $25-35, ticketek

7.30pm, $25-$55, ticketek.co.nz

Yeah, Auckland finally has an outdoor ice rink. You know how when you watch 30 Rock there’s always some people skating outside being all romantic and shit? That’s what you can be like! Yeah, you can go on dates at an ice rink! Or you can go by yourself. Or you can go with a friend. Or your mum. But that’s more weird than romantic.

The gentleman of literature that you can’t help but love continues to take time from his busy habitual Hobbit schedule to speak honestly, openly and intimately in front of audiences that walk away thinking they want to invite the knight around for a cuppa.

Hold fast

Steve Wrigley and Cyan Corwine take their well received comedy – musical down to H-town for two performances of Kevin! The Musical – the story of a loveable goof who’s not good enough for 42nd St, but is good enough for you.

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Hold Fast is pop-up style shop showcasing labels, artists and hand-crafters. Taking over 5B High St, the gallery space will be filled with original artworks from local tattoo artists and illustrators, handmade jewellery, home wares, ceramics and printed fashions.

It’s a popup showcase at its best.

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Coicent/Five Numbers A Review by Harlequin Jones

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Coicent is a short anime film about this boy called Shinichi who is on a school trip to the city, when a crazy white deer grabs his bag and he’s chasing it round and you know, drama. Meanwhile a girl who is some kind of robot or some shit, I dunno, she escapes from the place she is being held, or maybe it’s where she was created. Anyway she escapes and Shinichi meets her while chasing this deer. He helps her avoid these cray cray people who are trying to catch her. Super cute characters especially the deer. Five Numbers is the second part of the DVD and the animation is sort of 3D. These people all wake up in a spaceship prison type thing and can’t figure out how the fuck to get out of it. There’s some old man on board who knows why they are all stuck there, etc etc. It manages to tell a pretty good story for a 25 minute film.

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THURSDAY 21 Brave

The Well-Digger’s Daughter

General Release

Pixar is back with an original story that has us hoping it’ll be a little bit more Incredibles than Cars. Nine times out of 10, Pixar strikes gold with their touching movies. This adventure tale focuses on a wee Scottish lass who wants to be a warrior. A familiar story arc, but Pixar’s outputs are never just another story.

Further info directed by DANIEL AUTEUIL Starring DANIEL AUTEUIL, KAD MERAD AND SABINE AZÉMA

Snow White & The Huntsman General Release

Apparently heaps of people can’t stand Kristen Stewart. I don’t get that. “She wears chucks and eye make up and she’s just trying to look like a typical indie chick,” they say. Shouldn’t you want grounded celebrities? Whatever. Leave the girl alone. Also Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron star in this Snow White battle epic.

Safe General Release

Say what you want about action movies. Yes, the bullets should have run out. Yes, explosions would hurt people more. Yes, he did just kill 50 people without getting shot. But it’s an action movie! Jason Statham gets it, hence why he’s the latest action movie star. And he’s awesome, even if this one is a crime thriller.

True Blood Prime, 9:40pm

French actor Daniel Auteuil was catapulted to stardom in movie adaptations of Marcel Pagnol’s novels Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.The WellDigger’s Daughter is Auteuil’s directorial debut and a remake of Marcel Pagnol’s 1940 movie of the same name. Auteuil plays Pascal, a hard-working widower, devoted to his six daughters.

In essence this is a simple story of a poor well-digger’s daughter (Patricia Amoretti) who falls in love with a rich pilot (Jaques Mazel), but the wonder is in the telling and the delights in the detail. Set in wartime Provence, Auteuil’s precise direction ensures that not a moment of drama, romance or comedy is lost in a beautifully crafted tale that, bar the final scenes, succeeds in shirking maudlin sentimentality. That’s largely due to a superb cast,

in which Astrid Bergès-Frisbey shines as Auteuil’s muchmaligned daughter, Patricia.

This is a gentle film that nonetheless has a great deal to say about class, honour, loyalty and love in portraying a feud between two families juxtaposed against the events of World War I. The score, by Alexandre Desplat, is the perfect accompaniment to the lush cinematography of JeanFrancois Robin which captures the Provence countryside in all its vibrant colour and natural glory Plotwise, it may all wrap up a bit too feel-good and trite for some. Soppy ending aside, Auteuil delivers a fine slice of essential French cinematic delight – dramatic, funny, moving and tragic by turns.

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MONDAY 24 V Motion Project

The fifth season of the sexiest sexy vampire television show returns to Prime this week. The new season introduces a whole new wave of otherworldly characters including vampire guardians, the vampire authority, vampire zealots and other sexy, bitey babes all trying to kill and screw each other.

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The V Motion Project has been running for around a month and Joel Little and crew are still on a mission to make a song using the body’s motoin as opposed to instruments. They think they can do it, and from the videos we’ve seen it looks like they just might be able to pull this piece of magic off.

FRIDAY 22 Dragonball: Evolution

auckland

TV SHOW

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wellington

ONLINE

dunedin

DVD release

christchurch

BLU-RAY release

The live action adaptation of the classic anime is on FOUR this Friday. If you’re a fan of Dragonball and Dragonball Z, don’t watch this by any means as it will piss you off more than the 21 episodes it took to blow up Namek in five minutes. Or make it a drinking game – drink when you’re irritated. You’ll get wasted.

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Wagamama

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MULtiple locations, wagamama.co.nz

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When you were a kid your parents told you that sharing was good. Unless you were at an orphanage, where it was every kid for themselves. But sharing is cool. Enter Wagamama, the restaurant that encourages social eating in this social age of social media and social living. Share the love, share the food and dine on dumplings, yakitori, crispy spicy prawns, chilli squid and soy bean goodness. Wagamama has three restaurants in Auckland (Metropolis in the CBD, Nuffield St in Newmarket with a fancy cocktail bar and one at the Sylvia Park mega-complex) and one restaurant in Wellington at Queens Wharf.

Mexican food is all the rage. Whether it’s because New Zealanders like to say that we like spicy food or whether it’s because for whatever reason we’ve just had very few real Mexican restaurants for years, now that we’ve got such a plethora to choose from we’ve ended up spoiled for choice. Mexico in Britomart makes Mexican food and makes it well. Yeah, you can get burritos or whatever at any old place, but real Mexican food is different. It’s not fast food. And it comes with tequila and sangria and chilli beers, which in Mexican translates to “brat juice of kings” according to my Mexican friend Bender Bending Rodriguez.

GIG GUIDE

SHIT WORTH DOING

WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 20 All My Sons

Circa Theatre, $46

Flight of the Conchords w/ Arj Barker

Michael Fowler Centre

The Improv Lounge The Fringe Bar

The New Brides Fast Eddie’s

Red Sky Blues, Fantails & Von Thundersvolt 10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5

The Session Matterhorn

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

Sergey Malov & Michael Houstoun

Phoebe Hurst, Please the Trees & No Problemos

Standstill

8PM, Meow, $10

Sunset Road Circa Theatre, $40

TNC Presents Diamond Traders, Live Visuals & More Bettys

Try This

BATS Theatre, $18

8PM, San Fran Bath House, $5

Rangatahi Represent Te Papa

MANGLE

10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5

Micah, B-Lo & Kev Fresh Bettys

Try This

Sun 24 All My Sons

The Brown Show

All My Sons

Try This

Bikini Roulette, Miles Calder & The Rumours

The Fringe Bar

BATS Theatre, $18

Circa Theatre, $46

Baby Loves Disco The Grand

Circa Theatre, $46

Bodega

DJ Speedy

The Axemen & Terror of the Deep

Fete de la Musique

Circa Theatre, $46

The Sunday Jazz Club Public Bar & Eatery

Sunset Road

Bettys

10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5

Balkan Brass Explosion

Circa Theatre, $40

4PM, The Southern Cross, Free

Mon 25

Ian McKellen The Opera House

Raw Meat Comedy

Optimus Gryme & Crushington

The Fringe Bar

Sandwiches

Sandwiches

Sunset Road Circa Theatre, $40

Rocky Horror Picture Show Embassy Theatre

9PM, Medusa, $10

Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band

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Circa Theatre

The Lido Cafe

10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5

All My Sons

The Improvisors: Theatresports The Boptet

Cool Rainbows & The Eversons

Fri 22

Gatherer W/ Cobra Khan

Michael Fowler Centre

Town Hall

Circa Theatre, $40

Sat 23

Circa Theatre, $40

All My Sons

Flight of the Conchords w/ Arj Barker

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

Sunset Road

Sunset Road

Thu 21

El Horno

BATS Theatre, $18

BATS Theatre, $20

BATS Theatre, $20

Famous Fridays

Chris Bryant

Try This

BATS Theatre, $18

Standstill

10PM, The Southern Cross, Free

Circa Theatre, $46

San Fran Bath House

Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Standstill

BATS Theatre, $20

Tomorrow People

Tue 26

9PM, St Peter’s Hall, Paekakariki, $15

All My Sons

Bettys

Standstill

Live Music The Library

NAIROBI TRIO w/ FIVE MILE TOWN

BATS Theatre, $20

San Fran Bath House

Marek, B-Lo & Kev Fresh

Circa Theatre, $46

Sunset Road

Poker Night

7PM, Old St Paul’s Cathedral, $39

Circa Theatre, $40

The Big Kumara

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Life You’ve Imagined

Sunset Road

Embassy Theatre,

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Circa Theatre

Wellington Circus Hub

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SHIT WORTH DOING

CHRISTCHURCH gig guide Wed 20

Karaoke

Sol Latino

Olympic Cocktail Party

I Sing The Body Electric

Karaoke w/ DJ Chick

Supermodel and Sleeping Dogs

Reckless Duo

Jack Mann Complex

Jam Session

Becks Southern Alehouse

Karaoke

Sandridge Hotel

Quiz Night

Quarry Bar & Bistro Pierside Cafe and Bar

The Intricate Art of Actually Caring

Ashburton Trust Event Centre

The Shameless Two Phoenix Bar

North Hagley Park Events Village

Villain, River Jones & Psych Tigers 8PM, Dux Live

Thu 21 The Black Velvet Band Becks Southern Alehouse

Dr Sketchy’s AntiArt School: Party!

Party! Party!

Canterbury Bowling Club

Fri 22 Battle of the Bands The Venue-Musicbar

Beach Breaks & the Retro Record Request Pierside Cafe and Bar

D n D Showband

Becks Southern Alehouse

DJ Mike T

The Monday Room

Great North darkroom

I Sing The Body Electric Jack Mann Complex

Drop Dead Redhead & T54

Outstanding Young Musicians

Great North

Shake Down

I Sing The Body Electric

Smashbox

8PM, Dux Live

8PM, Wunderbar, $10 Jack Mann Complex

8PM, Dux Live

The Bubblemen Phoenix Bar

The Man Who Fell Out of Bed

Christchurch Netball Centre Phoenix Bar

Tape Invasion darkroom

Total Control Phoenix Bar

The Open Stage

Phoenix Bar

US Marine Corps Forces Band Free Concert

Alvarado’s Mexican Cantina/Bar

St Augustine Anglican Church Canterbury Horticultural Centre The Fox and Ferret, Palms

Sat 23 Axemen, Transistors, Dark Matter & Gorgeous Disorders

Sun 24 I Sing The Body Electric Jack Mann Complex

Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Mon 25

D’sendantz

Quiz Night

Becks Southern Alehouse

DJ Mike T Revival Bar

Human 20th anniversary w/ Dissolution, Lebowski & Awakened Inferno 9PM, Dux Live, $7

I Sing The Body Electric Jack Mann Complex

Insane Jane

Pierside Cafe and Bar,

Karaoke

Sandridge Hotel

Bealey’s Speight’s Ale House

Quiz Night

Ferrymead Speights Ale House

Quiz Night

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Tue 26 Flight of the Conchords w/ Arj Barker

CBS Canterbury Arena

Jamesons Jam Sessions Bealey’s Speight’s Ale House

Mid-Winter Christmas Party Riccarton Racecourse

auckland gig guide Wed 20

Industry wednesday 8PM, twentyone, Free

Thu 21

A Shortcut To Happiness

Jason Skelton

1885 Live: Space Creeps

6PM, Shakespeare Bar

9PM, 1885 Britomart, Free

JJA Jazz Awards Satellite Party

2012 Brother Rally New Zealand

8PM, 1885 Britomart, $10

Viaduct Events Centre

Karaoke Marcus

A Shortcut To Happiness

SkyCity Theatre

Baby Steps Sound System 6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

Battle Of The Bands: Heat 2

8PM, The Kings Arms, Free

8PM, Dolphin Theatre, $26

Retro Wednesday

Dan Aux Selectah

Some Explicit Polaroids

8PM, Racket Bar, Free

Dirty Diana’s Sol Night Chapel Bar & Bistro

Halftime

9PM, Fort St Union, Free

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Auckland Jazz Orchestra

8PM, 1885 Basement, $10

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9PM, QF Tavern

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5PM, Sale St

8PM, The Basement, $25

Tribes

8PM, Maidment Theatre

Zirka Circus

Bruce Pulman Park

SkyCity Theatre

Acoustic Thursday w/ Eli 7PM, Neighbourhood

Acoustic Thursday ft. Jade Pritchard 5PM, Northern Steam Ship

Acoustic Thursdays w/ Waylon 7PM, Nuffield St.

Batucada Sound Machine 6PM, Sale St

Bitches N Shit

6PM, Racket Bar, Free

Dean Campbell 6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

DJ David James

9PM, twentyone, Free

Gene Rivers

6PM, Imperial Lane

Jesse Sheehan, Kohls A Killer & Ratsmagic 8PM, Khuja Lounge, $5

KAHA

7PM, Q Theatre, $28.50

Bobby Brazuka Ponsonby Social Club

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auckland gig guide Private Lives

8PM, Dolphin Theatre, $26

Frank Booker & Tido 5PM, Everybodys

Ruby Frost

The Friday Blender

Rudsits Brothers

Greg Churchill, Angela Fisken & Aaron Pony Club

8PM, Pony Club, $15 9PM, QF Tavern

Some Explicit Polaroids

8PM, The Basement, $25

Square Eye Pair

8PM, Fortune Theatre, $15

Tribal State, Halo Of Ashes & Blackleaf Gardens 8PM, The Kings Arms, $5

Chapel Bar & Bistro

Soljah, Sons Of Zion & Tomorrow People 8PM, The Kings Arms

Some Explicit Polaroids

Granduo

9PM, Florrie McGreals

Jason Smith Duo 9PM, The Patriot

Tape Invasion

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Iva Lamkum

TDK

KAHA

Jason Smith

Totes Inappropes

Lee Gray

John Holmes

Tribes

Lokey

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Zirka Circus

InkCoherent

8PM, Khuja Lounge, $15 9PM, Basalt

6PM, Nuffield St.

8PM, The Basement, $25 Wine Cellar

8PM, 1885 Britomart, Free 10PM, JAMES, $10

8PM, Maidment Theatre

Aotea Centre

7PM, Q Theatre, $28.50 9PM, Rickshaw Eddies 5PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

Bruce Pulman Park

Matariki Dawn

KAHA

Sat 23

MCA The Tribute

Fri 22

Kate

2012 Brother Rally New Zealand

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

2012 Brother Rally New Zealand

Latin Aotearoa

A Shortcut To Happiness

Lee Gray

Tribes

8PM, Maidment Theatre

Zirka Circus

Bruce Pulman Park

Aotea Centre

7PM, Q Theatre, $28.50

Viaduct Events Centre

SkyCity Theatre

BANGLADE$H & THE LEERS 7PM, Backbeat

Bollywood Concert: Sunidhi

TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre

CAMERA Family Space

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Chopper: A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life 8:30PM, The Classic Studio, $25

ClubKill ft. Doctor Werewolf Code

Dean Te Paa

9PM, Florrie McGreals

The DeSotos & Sam RB

Juice Bar at The Windsor Castle

DJ Big Pun & DJ Grant Marshall 8PM, twentyone

DJ Leza Lee & DJ Darnell 6PM, The Deck

Dylan C

11PM, 1885 Basement, Free

Eddie Manukau 8PM, Glen Eden RSA

Francis Jakeman 8PM, De Post

8PM, GBS Bar 6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

9PM, Elephant Wrestler

Lo Key & Normski

7PM, Northern Steam Ship

Lola

9PM, Merchant Bar

Magik Sessions

8PM, Ginger Minx, Free

Malevolence, Scaphist & Old Kingdom 8PM, Rising Sun, $10

Manuel Bundy & Empty 5PM, Neighbourhood

Music Box

8PM, The Patriot

Private Lives

8PM, Dolphin Theatre, $26

Ricky De Medeiros 7PM, Alp Ice Cafe, Free

Rhythm and Style 5PM, Sale St

Sassy & The Pocketbook Rakinos

Viaduct Events Centre

A Ponsonby Institution

Chapel Bar & Bistro

A Shortcut To Happiness SkyCity Theatre

Jade Pritchard

7PM, Quay St Club Rooms

Aotea Square Ice Rink Aotea Square, $20

Blacklistt

7PM, Powerstation, $30

Brett Polley 8PM, De Post

CAMERA Family Space

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Chris Cox

5PM, Northern Steam Ship

Cian

7PM, Imperial Lane

Cool Cult EP Release Snake Pit

DJ Trainer

7PM, The Deck, Free

DJ Karn Hall & DJ Sample Gee

9PM, twnetyone, Free

Silke, Scarlett Lashes, Carb on Carb, HDSPNS & Mean Girls

Gatherer W/ Cobra Khan

Silo Cinema: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Gene Rivers

Lucha Lounge

Silo Park

Solly

9PM, Thirsty Dog, $10 8PM, Racket Bar, Free

Goody 2 Shoes 9PM, Merchant Bar

Stardome Observatory & Planetarium Rakinos

8PM, The Wine Cellar, $10

November Zulu

8PM, The Kings Arms, $10

Onny Kaulima

11PM, 1885 Basement, Free

People of Paris & Connor 6PM, Snapdragon

Pirate City Rollers: 7PM, YMCA, $20

Private Lives

4PM, Dolphin Theatre, $26

The Royal New Zealand Ballet: Pick and Mix ASB Theatre

Rudsits Brothers 8PM, Black Salt Bar

Saturday at Sale St 7PM, Sale St

Selecta Sam

8PM, La Zeppa Kitchen

Sick Disco

7PM, Cassette Nine, $10

Some Explicit Polaroids

8PM, The Basement, $25

Spooky

7PM, Everybodys

Stars of Matariki

TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre

Tribes

8PM, Maidment Theatre

Zirka Circus

Bruce Pulman Park

6PM, Snapdragon

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auckland gig guide Sun 24

Lenny Henry 8PM, ASB Theatre

Mon 25

Tue 26

2012 Brother Rally New Zealand

Matariki Dawn

Aotea Square Ice Rink

A Shortcut To Happiness

Viaduct Events Centre

Stardome Observatory & Planetarium

Aotea Square, $20

CAMERA Family Space

A Shortcut To Happiness

Private Lives

Eli Guttenbeil

Southern Fried Sundays

Aotea Square Ice Rink

Sunday at Sale St

Blend

Sunday Session Chapel Bar & Bistro

Quiz Night

CAMERA Family Space

The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Raw Men

SkyCity Theatre

4PM, La Zeppa Kitchen Aotea Square, $20

2PM, Merchant Bar Auckland War Memorial Museum

Conch Sunday Grill Ponsonby Social Club

DJ Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

8PM, Dolphin Theatre, $26

5PM, The Kings Arms, $10 2PM, Sale St

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Club Connoisseurs Chapel Bar & Bistro

Monday Music Quiz 7PM, The Kings Arms

Quiz Night

7PM, Northern Steam Ship 7PM, Nuffield St

6PM, Maidment Theatre, $50

6:30PM, The Basement, $5

Zirka Circus

Tribes

Bruce Pulman Park

7PM, Maidment Theatre

SkyCity Theatre

Aotea Square Ice Rink Aotea Square, $20

CAMERA Family Space

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Pub Quiz

7PM, The Kings Arms

Square Eye Pair

7PM, The Basement, $15

Sunset over kiwiana

12PM, Te Karanga Gallery, Free

Quiz Night

Chapel Bar & Bistro

Tribes

7PM, Maidment Theatre

1PM, Golden Dawn, Free

DUNEDIN gig guide Wed 20 Matariki Lantern Parade & Harvest Feast Waitati School

Square Eye Pair

8PM, Fortune Theatre, $15

WAIKATO gig guide Thu 21

Sat 23

Dads Army

Dads Army

8PM, Taste Merchants, $10

8PM, Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton, $28

Jesus Christ Superstar

Hair of the Dog

Mosgiel Coronation Hall

Rodeo Rodeo, Hamilton, Free

Drowning In Veronica Lake

Matariki Celebration

Quiz Night

Flight of the Conchords Regent Theatre

Great North

Thu 21

Bayfield High School

Square Eye Pair

8PM, Fortune Theatre, $15

Tumutumu

The Intricate Art of Actually Caring

8PM, Fortune Theatre, $15 Allen Hall Theatre

Square Eye Pair

Oamaru Opera House

Fri 22

Sun 24

Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

Mosgiel Coronation Hall

Mosgiel Coronation Hall

Shakespeare Songs

Matariki Star Map

Zinc Cafe, Hamilton

Fri 22 Blacklistt

7PM, Altitude Bar, Hamilton, $30

Dads Army

8PM, Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton, $28

Drowning In Veronica Lake

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton, $35

7PM, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $15

Paul Ubana Jones

Square Eye Pair

4PM, Careys Bay Hotel, Free

8PM, Biddy Mulligans, Hamilton, Free

Kevin! The Musical

Tumutumu

Songs of Hope The Southern Consort of Voices

Allen Hall Theatre

Sat 23 Dunedin Midwinter Carnival 2012 The Octagon

2PM, St Joseph’s Cathedral, $15

HAIR OF THE DOG

7:30PM, The Meteor, Hamilton, $35

Jeremy Pickford Cock & Bull, Hamilton

Tue 26 Sergey Malov & Michael Houstoun Regent Theatre

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton, $35

Jesse O’Brien

Cock & Bull, Hamilton

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

8PM, Fortune Theatre, $15

8PM, Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton, $28

On The Upside Down Of The World

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton, $35

Kevin! The Musical 7:30PM, The Meteor, Hamilton, $35

Oliver

Founders Theatre, Hamilton

On The Upside Down Of The World

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton, $35

Richard Meros Salutes The Southern Man The Meteor, Hamilton

Tempist Fujit

Diggers Bar, Hamilton

Upper Hutt Posse The YOT Club, Raglan

Tue 26 Oliver

Founders Theatre, Hamilton

BARS

Shit worth dRINKING It ’s so cold. You need to buy mittens.

You need to buy pajamas. You need to buy winter blankets. You need to listen to Jared from The Energy Spot and listen to all of his “Here’s a tip” tips. Or you could have fun, go somewhere warmer and dance those winter blues away at some of the cosiest venues around.

Grand Central

The Claddagh

126 Ponsonby Road, Auckland

372-376 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland

Situated in the heart of Ponsonby, this unique little bar has plenty to offer every day of the week with live music Monday to Thursday and DJs Friday to Sunday.

Now stocking a wide range of craft beers on tap and by bottle this lively venue will cater to whatever your taste may be. Check out our Facebook page for up to date gig guide and drink specials at facebook.com/ GrandCentralBar. Grand Central – better than any other GC.

There’s something to do every night of the week at The Claddagh. Monday pool nights, darts competitions on Tuesdays, pub quiz Wednesdays, karaoke Thursdays and fresh, live music every Friday and Saturday. Come Sunday there’s no better place for a roast meal for you and your friends or that stranger you took home who you think you’ve got at least one more round with.

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Chapel

19 London Street, Lyttelton

147 Ponsonby Road, Auckland

The Lyttelton favourite is back in business. And by favourite, we mean favourite. Ask just about any band or solo act that has performed at the venue and odds are they’ll say that it’s their favourite place to play.

Whether it’s the intimacy, the general vibe or all of the magical pixie dust that’s structurally holding the place together, there’s something about the place that always makes it worth your while.

Club Connoisseurs is the name of the game at Ponsonby’s Chapel Bar & Bistro on Monday nights from 6:30 to 10:30. When you’re back at work feeling sorry for yourself, Chapel’s helping you get back on the good foot with DJs spinning their treasured collection of funk, reggae, soul, jazz and more so you can get on up through the rest of the week.

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tours & events

Upcoming tours & events Goodshirt

Fri 22 Jun San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 06 Jul The Bacco Room, Auckland

Grizzly Bear

Tue 20 Nov The Opera House, Wellington Wed 21 Nov Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland

LUCKLESS & BOND STREET BRIDGE

Fri 22 Jun The Moorings, Wellington Sat 23 Jun The Free House, Nelson Sun 24 Jun The Dharma Bums Club, Wairau Valley Mon 25 Jun Donovan’s Store, Okarito Tue 26 Jun Cooks Saddle, Fox Glacier Wed 27 Jun Theatrette, Oamaru Thu 28 Jun The National, Dunedin Fri 29 Jun The Brewery, Christchurch Sat 30 Jun Darkroom, Christchurch

Bill Bailey

Fri 22 Jun Altitude Bar, Hamilton Sat 23 Jun Powerstation, Auckland

Black Keys

Sat 03 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 05 Nov TSB Bank Arena, Wellington

Coldplay

Sat 10 Nov Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Dame Edna Everage

Thu 19 Jul Shadows, Auckland Fri 20 Jul Altitude, Hamilton Sat 21 Jul San Fran Bath House, Wellington Thu 26 Jul World, Queenstown Fri 27 Jul Sammy’s, Dunedin Sat 28 Jul Bedford Pop Up, Christchurch

Jeff Dunham

Sun 19 Aug Vector Arena, Auckland

Fri 22 Jun Wunderbar, Lyttleton Thu 28 Jun Static, Hamilton Fri 29 Jun Whammy Bar, Auckland

SerGey Malov

Sat 04 Aug Vector Arena, Auckland

Mark Gardener

Some Explicit Polaroids

Thu 09 Aug Mighty Mighty, Wellington Fri 10 Aug The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 11 Aug Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Tue 19 Jun - Sat 23 Jun The Basement Theatre, Auckland

Missy Higgins

Wed 11 Jul San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 13 Jul Wunderbar, Lyttleton Sat 14 Jul Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers Sat 28 Jul Space Monster, Whanganui Fri 04 Aug Whammy Bar, Auckland Wed 11 Aug Bad Cave, Palmerston North

Mon 06 Aug Q Theatre, Auckland Tue 07 Aug Q Theatre, Auckland

Mr Thing

Wed 27 Jun Subculture, Queenstown Thu 28 Jun Opium, Wanaka Fri 29 Jun San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 30 Jun Rakinos, Auckland

Nasum (SE)

Sunken Seas

Terror

Tue 17 Jul Void, Hamilton Wed 18 Jul The Kings Arms, Auckland

Thu 28 Aug The Kings Arms, Auckland

Ladyhawke

Wed 11 Jul Union Hall, Dunedin Thu 12 Jul The Foundry, Christchurch Fri 13 Jul San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 14 Jul Studio, Auckland

Lawrence Arabia

NZ International Film Festival Sun 19 Jul - Sun 05 Aug Multiple Venues, Auckland Fri 27 Jul - Sun 12 Aug Multiple Venues, Wellington Fri 27 Jul - Sun 12 Aug Multiple Venues, Dunedin Thu 09 Aug - Sun 26 Aug Hoyts Northlands, Christchurch

Fri 13 Jul St Michaels and All Angels, Christchurch Sat 14 Jul Sammy’s, Dunedin Fri 20 Jul Town Hall, Auckland Sat 21 Jul Opera House, Wellington

Tim and Eric

Left Or Right

Wed 20 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Thu 21 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sat 23 Jun Regent Theatre, Dunedin Sun 24 Jun Events Centre, Queenstown Tue 26 Jun CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch Wed 27 Jun Trafalgar Centre, Nelson Sun 01 Jul Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 02 Jul TSB Bank Arena, Wellington

The Raw Nerves

Smashing Pumpkins

Home Brew

Fri 29 Jun Players Entertainment Venue, Invercargill Sat 30 Jun Mint Bar, Wanaka Sun 01 Jul Winter Festival Mardigra, Queenstown

Flight Of The Conchords

Tue 06 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

Sat 14 Jul The Bedford, Christchurch

dDub

Thu 23 Aug Powerstation, Auckland

Radiohead (UK)

Shapeshifter

Sat 11 Aug The Civic, Auckland Sun 12 Aug The Civic, Auckland Mon 13 Aug The Civic, Auckland Tue 14 Aug The Civic, Auckland

The English Beat

Fri 13 Jul The Foundry, Christchurch

Fri 22 Jun Little Theatre, Lower Hutt Sun 24 Jun Memorial Hall, Queenstown Tue 26 Jun Regent Theatre, Dunedin Wed 27 Jun Civic Theatre, Invercargill Fri 29 Jun The Winery, Blenheim Sat 30 Jun Chanel Arts Centre, Motueka Sun 01 Jul Memorial Hall, Waikanae

Fri 28 Sep Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sat 29 Sep Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Mon 01 Oct CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch Wed 03 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland Thu 04 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland

BlacklistT

The Perfect Storm

Sat 06 Oct Powerstation, Auckland

Fri 22 Jun Subculture, Queenstown Sat 23 Jun Mint Bar, Wanaka Fri 29 Jun Blue Pub, Methven Sat 30 Jun Dux Live, Christchurch

Lenny Henry

Sun 24 Jun ASB Theatre, Auckland Wed 27 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Lil’ Band O’ Gold

Wed 04 Jul Opera House, Wellington Thu 05 Jul Municipal Theatre, Napier Fri 06 Jul Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton Sat 07 Jul Powerstation, Auckland

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Bringing it all back home Groove Guide talks to Goodshirt about time off, time away and time for reinvention.

It’s odd to think that it’s been six years since Goodshirt’s irrefutably catchy tunes were last dominating the NZ airwaves. The band shot to success in 2002 with their platinum-selling album Good, yet in 2005, with little fanfare, the band went on indefinite hiatus. Until now.

Over the past few months, the reunited band have hit the ground running, playing a series of gigs around the country and releasing EP Skinny Mirror. So, with a nationwide release tour kicking off in Christchurch a few short days ago, the lads and I sat down over a beer to chat about the old times and new.

After spending so long apart, how did you guys go about getting back into the swing of making music?

Gareth: We went round to Murray’s house and just started jamming with the record button pressed on the computer really. And we didn’t really talk that much, just said, “Hi, it’s been awhile.” Just started playing.

Actually, ‘So Charming,’ – the new single – came out of one of those very first jams.

Rodney: We kind of got interested in each other’s songwriting again. We had a long enough break doing other things. It felt like something we all wanted to do, we just needed a positive push in the `right direction.

It took a lot of people by surprise when you decided to put Goodshirt on hold in 2005. Could you tell me a bit about your decision to go on hiatus?

Rodney: I don’t think we were really getting along in a very healthy way.

I did some playing with Breaks Co-Op in New Zealand and then they got released by Parlophone Records in the UK. I just really wanted to go there and wanted to be involved in that next step for them, so then I stayed on for six years. It was kind of a forced break, but it gave Muz and Mike a chance to kind of do some stuff with Voom and Side Kick Nick. Gareth released his solo record in that time and I made solo record as well.

There’s a real homegrown, authentically Kiwi sound to your earlier albums. How would you describe your sound on the new EP? Gareth: Ah, it wasn’t meant to sound like our other records…

Rodney: But it ended up sounding like Goodshirt.

Gareth: Yeah, it sounds like Goodshirt. We just approached it differently.

We approached it in two ways; one was to just jam songs and ideas, just to see what happened. That was an interesting way to work. The other way was just to send stuff electronically over the Internet while Rodney was in England. We were in different countries so we built it up part by part, sending ideas backwards and forwards.

Rodney: Throwing ideas on top of mixdowns, laying them out then deconstructing them and putting them back together. It’s a fun way to work.

Gareth: We have like 50 or 60 songs in the Dropbox.

It’s been a good ten years since Goodshirt shot to the top of the NZ music charts with ‘Sophie’. How did you guys originally form as a band?

Rodney: Us three (Rod, Mike and Gareth), down at Murphy’s Irish bar.

Gareth: We played Irish Music. We were a folk band.

Rodney: Not really, we kind of pretended to be so we could get gigs at Irish pubs, ‘cause they paid really well. I don’t think I was old enough to be in the pub when I first joined that band.

Gareth: So we played four nights a week for few years, then decided we wanted to write original music – so Goodshirt was formed.

Where did the name Goodshirt come from?

Gareth: We were writing a list of band names and we decided all the good band names were taken so we were just coming up with really bad names.

Rodney: We were almost Beetroot. Then we thought, most band names are shit anyway – so we should just choose one and as people get to know our music they’ll think of that band name as what that music is.

Gareth: But at that point Rodney’s Dad came in and said, “That’s a good shirt you’re wearing.” It was a blue shirt and it said “Bob” on it.

Rodney: Oh yeah, that one! That’s still my favourite shirt, actually.

Gareth: So we wrote Goodshirt on the list and that was the only name that stayed on once we got through all the other really bad names. It was the least embarrassing one.

What were some of the more embarrassing names?

Gareth: Wasn’t there Squeal? Oh no, that was our jazz band… our jazz project.

You both released solo albums recently. Did this help you to get back into the band mindset, or was the Goodshirt project already underway?

Rodney: Yeah I think so, like I got all the wussy little pansy songs that I want to play out of the way. I feel too embarrassed to take them to Goodshirt anyway, so it’s like a vent to do my girly songs, and then Gareth’s got some girly songs as well.

Gareth: Yeah I have some folky songs too. We’ve both got folky outlets, and then the electric songs go through Goodshirt.

Rodney: I got more into arranging and stuff like that and wanting to develop that sort of side with the solo stuff, but Goodshirt feels like it’s about us four, so it’s not like the sort of band where you can get someone else to come and just be the drummer or just be the guitarist or whatever.

So it only really exists when it’s us. We’re pretty special in that way.

What are some of your favourite tracks on the new EP to either play or listen to?

Gareth: I’m really pleased with the EP. It’s solid.

Rodney: My favourite’s probably ‘I Can’t Drive’ actually. I really like it. I reworked it from a song Murray started writing ages ago. Gareth made up this chorus part for it, which kind of transformed it into a different song really.

Gareth: Yeah, we sort of shared bits, like Murray would write versus, I did choruses.

Can we expect a full-length album in the near future?

Gareth: Ok, yeah.

Rodney: Ok, just ‘cause you said so... haha. We want to do another EP quite soon. I reckon EPs are nicer, because you don’t have to get tied up in it being a giant statement or whatever.

WRITTEN BY CLOVIS MCEVOY SEE THEM LIVE: GOODSHIRT FRI 22 JUN SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE, WELLINGTON FRI 06 JUL THE BACCO ROOM, AUCKLAND

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Patti Smith Sixty Five-Year old Patti Smith is showing no sign of slowing down with her new release Banga.

Getting older is strange. It must be especially strange if you’re an iconic rock’n’roll rebel. There are various ways to cope: fight aging, badly (Axl Rose). Carry on as always, ending up a wrinkly parody of your young self (Keith Richards). Avoid it altogether and come back as a hologram (Tupac, Jimi Hendrix). Or, if you’re Patti Smith, continue, effortlessly, just to be who you are.

It’s hard to write about Smith objectively. For some of us, she changed everything. Horses dropped in December 1975. Number one singles that year included songs by the Bee Gees and Neil Sedaka; punk had broken, but it was still all balls and blokes. For a thinking girl, it was a musical desert.

In this environment, the plugged-in poetry of Horses was revelatory.

Smith proved that punk and literature were kin; that you could be smart and eloquent and still put on skinny black jeans and stick it to the man.

With Banga, she takes this further: you can be smart and eloquent and 65 and still put on skinny black jeans and stick it to the man. But to create beauty is okay too.

The album finds Smith working with Horses guitarist and old friend Lenny Kaye. With age comes loss, and some of the tone here is elegiac.

‘Maria’ was written for the French actress Maria Schneider: “I knew you / now you’re gone”. On ‘This Is The Girl’, she eulogises “smouldering bird” Amy Winehouse to a fifties tempo and doo-wop vocals that echo the lost singer’s beehive.

Banga at its most sublime, though, is the lullaby ‘Seneca’. Smith’s voice here is a mother’s, the one that soothes lucky children as darkness falls: “run my little one, read the hymn for him, for thee”. The song made me cry. And I never cry, not even during the sad bits of Charlotte’s Web. Yet her delivery has lost none of its muscle. “Night is a mongrel, believe or explode,” she snarls on ‘Banga’ above duelling eddies of guitar and bass, strings bending while a dog howls in the distance.

And Smith is still brave. ‘Constantine’s Dream’ is a ten-minute spoken word improvisation that riffs on the Roman Empire, Columbus and Renaissance painting. Goodness.

Banga is Patti Smith at her best: circumscribed not by trends, not by history, not by her own legacy. She just makes great art. Maybe she always will.

WRITTEN BY LAURA WILLIAMSON ALBUM OUT NOW: BANGA

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Halo 4, the first in the series by developer 343 Studios, takes the action to planet Requeim.

Revered by the Covenant (Halo’s signature enemy alien enemy), it’s also home to a lot of artifacts of the mysterious Forerunners.

In addition to actually showing us the Forerunner species in action, Halo 4 marks the return of series hero Master Chief. While it isn’t yet clear if 343 can succeed in original developer Bungie’s stead, what we’ve seen of the game so far suggests that they just might.

For a start, the wicked new enemies (like the Knight, Watcher, Crawler) look set to spice up the battlefield in interesting ways. Then there’s the tight integration of multi and single player, including the release of lots of additional content in the months following launch.

This camera has loads of exciting features: full 1080p HD video with a dedicated movie button and stereo sound, an optical viewfinder, a variable-angle high res LCD screen, 14-bit RAW shooting, HDR, tracking auto focus, and more.

There are also a number of improvements to the multiplayer, bringing it more in line with other modern shooters, as well as new weapons, modes and more. Halo 4, in a nutshell, shimmers with a new shine. We’re excited for its November 6th release date, and think you should be too.

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Gears of War Judgment Eyes On Xbox 360 Gears Of War, a flagship series of the Xbox 360, has racked up a whopping 18.8 million units sold since it debuted in 2006. A new approach to third-person shooters, it introduced a groundbreaking cover system, a slower method of movement, and insane levels of both violence and gore.

Gears Of War Judgment looks set to make some changes. To start with, it’s a prequel, and doesn’t feature Marcus Fenix in the lead role. New protagonist Baird, once a bit player in the story, is just the start; it also plays much faster, with an almost tenfold increase in speed.

The boosted ballistics, supported by refined controls, enable a huge increase in the number of enemies players will need to fight at once.

Judgment also promises to be one of the hardest games in the series, thanks to its dynamic difficulty system.

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What we saw of the game at E3 was insane; like it has been given a shot of caffeine straight to the goolies. Blood and body parts litter the screen. If this game plays as good as it looks, we’re all in.

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FASHION

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What muso/celebrity has style up the wazoo?

Chelsea Jade Metcalf from Watercolours has pretty awesome style. International celebrity-wise, I think Diane Kruger has style in bucketloads.

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I have a bit of a crush on all things I Love Ugly at the moment. A tailored suit and a good pair of Converse chucks are also key to a man’s wardrobe.

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What are the essentials for a woman’s wardrobe?

It all starts with the basics – update underwear and hosiery, invest in great shoes and bags (anything Deadly Ponies is generally amazing). Add a classic coat (don’t be afraid of colour), an expensive white shirt and a good cocktail dress. MAC lipstick & Ruby nail polishes are a great way to mix up your look and add a bit of fun to any wardrobe too.

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Mirth and Music Veteran comedian and actor Lenny Henry returns to New Zealand with a show about something very close to his heart, music.

An audibly jaw-cracking yawn echoes down the line as I begin my interview with UK comedy legend Lenny Henry. It takes me a second to remember that, separated by the width of a planet as we are, our 7.30pm interview in fact translates to rather busy morning back in England… and I wasn’t even his first interview of that day.

Yet if there are two things one could expect from a 37-year veteran of the UK comedy scene it’s a diligent work ethic, and a stellar sense of humour. Indeed, a moment or two’s conversation is enough to convince anyone that Henry has both things in spades; he doesn’t need a stage or a large audience to be funny, it’s just who he is.

His new show is called Cradle to Rave, and I have a sneaking suspicion that in the years to come it will be remembered as unique amongst Henry’s vast array of previous projects.

Eschewing a more traditional stand-up style, Henry has chosen to write a show that focuses specifically on one thing – music.

Whilst it may seem an odd thing to be a major source of inspiration for a comedian, it’s clear that this is something Henry has been working on for quite some time. “I’m a huge music fan which is why I’m doing this show,” says Henry. “It was always going to happen, I always wanted to do this show but for a long time I wasn’t brave enough to do it because it’s quite a big thing with music to put it up there and say ‘this is what I like’.”

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But fans need not fear that they are in for a lecture on music history. Henry looks at popular culture through the lens of a master satirist, and you can rest assured that today’s pop stars won’t escape unscathed. “I love talking about Amy Winehouse and Adele,” Henry laughs mischievously, “or hip-hop and how they talk about the ghetto but always have chandeliers when you see them on Cribs.

I just like making jokes about musicians, I like teasing them.”

In recent years, Henry’s career has blossomed creatively as he’s taken on a diverse range of projects including the title role in Shakespeare’s Othello. Whilst he was met with glowing reviews for his performance, to hear him tell it, the transition into the deathly serious world of Shakespearian tragedy presented a unique challenge. “If you’re a stand-up comedian and a phone goes off,” Henry says with mock outrage, “you can immediately stop the show and take the piss out of the person who’s got Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theme from Cats as their ring tone.

But when you’re playing Othello you can’t be in the middle of a monologue and go, ‘Turn your phone off, you pillock, or I’ll shove it up your bumhole!’”

While he’s quite right, it’s hard to escape the fact that it would be dreadfully funny if he did say just that. And who knows? Audiences may yet get the chance yet to see Henry deal with unruly theatregoers, as Shakespeare isn’t something he plans to move away from any

time soon. “I’d like to do more of it, definitely,” he exclaims. “It feeds into everything else you’re doing; if you do Shakespeare it really helps your comedy, it helps your writing and just kind of makes you understand how writing and comedy work.”

So as the beloved star of the ‘80s alternative comedy movement gears up for his first NZ visit in years, I feel compelled to ask him the obligatory question – are you looking forward to coming back?

“Yea I love coming over, it’s fantastic,” he beams. “When I go to America or Canada, there is always that weird thing when you think they’re not gonna get the references, and you have to ask ‘what do you guys say when you want to say this?’, but in New Zealand and Australia there is never any of that. They always seem to be very up on British comedy, they understand all the references and absolutely get British humour.”

And get it they do – no doubt his loyal NZ fan base are sure to traipse along to Henry’s latest endeavour to see a show that is guaranteed to be packed with enormous amounts of the goodnatured mirth that permeates everything he does.

WRITTEN BY CLOVIS MCEVOY SEE HIM LIVE: LENNY HENRY SUN 24 JUN ASB THEATRE, AUCKLAND WED 27 JUN MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE, WELLINGTON

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