Texture / September 2009
Texture is an events guide, place guide, interactive guide to this fair city. Its role is to hook you up with the best spots to spend your nights and where to recover during the day, all the latest news and information you want from round town and a place to meet only the best people from all over the place. Texture is brought to you by Positively Wellington Tourism with support from heaps of kindly folk round town.
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Metronomy are back...!
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- It was less than a year ago when electronic-pop-giant Metronomy, Joseph Mount, Oscar Cash and Gabriel Stebbing, joined forces with The Teenagers and played one heck of a gig at Bodega in aid of their most recent release Nights Out (2008).
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The Cream of Italian Cinema
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- Now that winter’s chill is behind us it’s time to kick-into spring, with Cathay Pacific’s always entertaining, Italian Film Festival 2009.
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Samuel F Scott – 20 September, Downstage Theatre
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- There was a relaxed atmosphere inside the Downstage Theatre for Samuel F Scott’s intimate Soundstage performance.
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Homegrown tickets are selling fast…!
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- The Homegrown music festival is returning to the Wellington waterfront once again with a fancy new major sponsor, Jim Bean, five stages and an impressive thirty-two band and DJ line-up PLUS event organisers have promised a new site-layout with better facilities and a lot more lush grass areas.
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James Duncan: Hello Fi - 18 September, Album Review
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- It’s been out for over a month now, but I really wanted to review this full length debut from the quirky brain of James Duncan.
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Fair Enough Wellington
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- It may only be symbolic, but it might just prove to be a very powerful symbol at that. On Friday night, the Council unanimously voted for Wellington to become New Zealand’s first Fair Trade city.
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Good Night The End – 11 September, Downstage Theatre
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- The capacity crowd at the opening night of Jo Randerson’s Good Night – The End was a testament to the reputation that Randerson, and her production company Barbarian Productions, had cultivated over the years… or perhaps the slightly unnerving publicity stint that saw grim reapers, courtesy of the Binge Culture Collective, wander round town…
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City Gallery a-go-go!
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- he City Gallery has had its doors closed since last October for a whopping four million dollar upgrade... an upgrade that included a touch of seismic strengthening and a fancy-dancy new two-storey expansion... but those doors are set to fly-open next weekend as they host one hell of a come-back party in the Civic Square! Woohoooo!
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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World Press Photo Exhibition – 11 September, Shed 11
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- I found out last Friday that the World Press Photo Exhibition still remains a definite crowd pleaser, as I tentatively negotiated my way through the masses to catch a glimpse of the two-hundred-work exhibition.
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Bettys - The Future of Hospitality is Here
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- It’s the talk of the town, and for very good reason.
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Where are you, my only one? - 5 September, Circa
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- I knew I had a romantic streak in me.
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Death by Chocolate – 4 September, Dransfield House
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- It was mostly curiosity that attracted me to the Wellington version of the highly successful murder mystery event, Death by Chocolate.
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Shihad turns twenty-one…!
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- Woah woah woah….
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Woah… your photo in Minuit’s new music video…
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- Off the back of their new album Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com, Minuit are working on a new video concept for their single Aotearoa and they need your help.
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Hashigo Zake stepping up after Vintage closure
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- Another new bar opening in downtown Welly? Who said there’s a recession.
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Pollux - 29 August, 111 Manners Street
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- It’s a great looking place, no doubt about it.
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Shipwrecked Maranui
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- Don't you love it how Wellington is such a community helping out Maranui and it's staff? First Cafe Laffare and now a special gig at The Tugboat.
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Maranui Cafe, Lyall Bay Parade, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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