The Prime Numbers are playing Contact FM’s end-of-term party at the Student Union building on Friday 17th. It’s $10 for five bands or so, and BYO (no drunken nudity this time, please!). Please come along, it’ll be heaps of fun. Party gigs are always the best gigs.
Tai took some footage from Saturday’s house party. Here’s a clip of The Prime Numbers in action:
The Prime Numbers played our first show at Namu’s birthday on Friday. Huge thanks to Kat, Namu and Stan (who agreed to fill in on drums at a day’s notice, and learned the songs in about an hour), and everyone who watched/danced/took photos/said lovely things. My favourite comments so far include “you guys kind of sound like The Bats”, “when I noticed your bassist didn’t have a pick, I thought it was going to suck, but it wasn’t that bad”, and “can I spit beer on you now?” (thanks Martin). I haven’t worked out how to play and paparazzi at the same time, so if you have any photos or video, send it my way!
We’ve got two more gigs next week, this time with Paul T on drums. On Thursday 18 September, we’re up against Gawj, Yum Yucks and Dick Dynamite & The Doppelgangers in the first heat of the Mammoth Band Experiments at Flow. It’s only $5 to get in, and there are drink specials and prize packs to be won. And of course, we really want your whooping, hollering support.
We’re also playing at Waikato University on Friday 19 September. The Waikato Students Union is throwing a party for Talk Like A Pirate Day at the old Bongo. We’re playing with our pals Sumo Love Machine and a revitalised Sora Shima. It’s BYO and entry by donation, and looks like it’ll be a great party. I plan to swig rum from a flask and call everyone ’scurvy wenches’.
It’s going to be a busy couple of nights. Enright House’s Mark Roberts is doing a lovely solo thing at La Commune this Friday evening, and Fur Patrol are playing a few doors down at Flow. Choose between loud or quiet, or hop between both. On Saturday evening, Matthew Bannister & The Weather release Aroha Ave at La Commune, with support from Sandra Bell and Gian Perrone.
If your band hasn’t entered the Mammoth Band Experiments yet, you’ve only got a week to get your act together. There are $5000 worth of prizes including gear, recording time and a paid gig at next year’s WSU Orientation. Hamilton’s bright young things will be competing on Thursday evenings at Flow, from September 18.
This Friday: Polka Dot Dot Dot and Little Pictures!
On their first visit to New Zealand in the summer of 2007, Polka Dot Dot Dot enchanted audience all over the country, from K’rd to Barrytown. Now they’re back and set to charm music-lovers in Hamilton for the first time, this Friday evening at La Commune.
Kitted out with banjo, bells and harp, three beautiful voices, and songs in the grand American folk tradition, Polka Dot Dot Dot will give you a tingly feeling in your soul and bring a sneaky little tear to your eye. Ask anyone who saw their last tour, and they’ll attest that this will be a magical evening. Don’t miss out.
Cute-as-pie Wellington electrofolkies Little Pictures are along for the ride, with songs from their new album Owl+Owl.
This show will start early, so you can go to the Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers release party at Ward Lane afterwards. Don’t dawdle!
Your intrepid Party Paparazzi is back in Wellington this weekend. I’ll see you at Happy on Friday night for the spectacular return of Connan Mockasin and at Spacething on Saturday afternoon, for the launch of the poster exhibition, Filthy Fingers.
And next weekend, back in Hamilton, Dynamo Go release their new EP Affordable Pop Music. Come to Ward Lane on Friday 4 June, for Dynamo Go with special guests Conway and Sumo Love Machine. Bring your friends, bring your mum, bring shoes for dancing and money for drinking.
If you haven’t yet made it along to the Ignition fringe festival, then hurry up oww! The week-long showcase of local music, art, poetry and performance ends this Saturday night. So far PJ.com has seen public art wig out the squares in Garden Place, a Dadaesque interpretive-dance food fight at the Performance Cafe, the Putaruru country music club, an improvised zombie soap-opera, exhibitions of beautiful collage and photography, and the aftermath of a performance poetry party. And it’s not over yet.
Murder, Hope of Women is on tonight and tomorrow at Meteor theatre. Steal This Play is at the University’s New Place theatre. And there are more exhibitions, performance pieces, plays and workshops all over town. And on Saturday night, The Night of the Freakin’ Hamiltons takes over Flow on Victoria Street with Kill The Zodiac, Doteyes, Bingodisiac, Wellington’s one-man-dance-party Disasteradio and your new favourite band, The Trons. They haven’t even played a gig yet, but they’ve already had the attention of Campbell Live, Gizmodo and even Pitchfork. Here’s a live clip of the feisty fourtet rehearsing ‘Sister Robot’:
Ex-Hamilton ex-band Yokel Ono are back together for one show, tonight at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, to release their EP So Many Enemies. Check em out if you’re in the big city. This will probably be their last show in forever.
PJ.com will be back in Wellington next weekend and, wonderfully, so will Connan Mockasin. He put on a stunning performance with Liam Finn and co last weekend (which involved extreme tambourining, electrified violin and autoharp, bass with built-in microphone and a bright green robe with pink fake-fur trim), and now our favourite psychedelic indie-pop elf has some shows of his own: Friday 27 June at Happy, with Good Laika, Leigh Sawmill on 5 July, and Auckland’s Backbeat Bar (above the Rock Shop) on the 10th and 11th.
