Texture / November 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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Salmonella Dub: Freak Controller - 25 November, Album Review
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- Coming within weeks of Shapeshifter's too-good-it-can’t-be-legal album, is another new release from a modern kiwi legend – Salmonella Dub’s Freak Controller.
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New Bars and Cafes keep on Coming
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- “Because you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop” is the immortal opening line from a Beastie Boy’s song. It also happens to be the best way to sum up Wellington’s fast-growing bar scene of recent times.
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Jarvis Cocker… live… Wellington…
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- Jarvis Cocker the man who, alongside the Gallaghers, the Coombes and Damon Abarn, helped define the Brit-pop movement of the nineties is performing at the Wellington Town Hall next Thursday.
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Season of the SALE
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- There’s nothing that gets the blood pumping like a good ol’ fashioned SALE.
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The Cuban Brothers - 13 November, San Francisco Bath House
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- The Cuban Brothers have become something of a mini, global-sensation over the last few years.
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Forget Novemberkinder… HELLO Reel Brazil…
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- Soooooo I was meant to write about Novemberkinder; The German Film Festival this week… except… it finished yesterday. Sigh. Lucky for me however, the Reel Brazil Film Festival was following hot on its heels.
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Jason Munn – 13 November, Massey University
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- There were a number of events listed in the Blow 09 Creative Arts Festival booklet that caught my eye.
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The Cuban Brothers will rock you baby
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- Their name was on everybody’s lips after the last Splore festival.
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The Brunettes – 6 November, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- The Brunettes, with their super sweet lyrics and copious boy-meets-girl duets, are an impressive force and have established quite the following both locally and abroad.
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Collapsing Creation – 5 November, Downstage Theatre
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- This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his work On the Origin of Species.
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The best NZ International Arts Fest line-up ever?
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- Death-defying acrobatic monks? Check.
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Handle the Jandal – 29 October, Embassy Theatre
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- The Embassy Theatre foyer was packed solid for the 2009 Radio Active 89FM Handle the Jandal D.
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Fat Freddy's Drop - 31 October, The Front Room
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- The city was awash with an influx of costumed weirdness for Halloween.
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It’s a total K.O…!
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- The adorable Auckland-based Brunettes, Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield, have returned to New Zealand after an extensive and incredibly successful two year globe-trot and are playing at the San Francisco Bathhouse this Friday!The Brunettes have been charming crowds with their unassuming, sincere pops songs since 1998 and have a whopping discography… Mars Loves Venus EP (1998), Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks (2002), The Boyracer EP (2002), Mars Loves Venus (2004), When Ice Met Cream (2005), Structure & Cosmetics (2007) and Paper Dolls (2009)… plus they have supported the likes of Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Beirut. Neato!BUT… it gets better… they will be joined on the night by Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko and local bevy The Family Cactus.Don’t miss out on an evening of pure joy! Tickets on sale now from Undertheradar.co.nz for twenty bucks!- Karyn
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Downstage is 45 Years Young
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- This November will mark Downstage’s 45th birthday - that's right, FOURTY FIVE.
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Beans – 25 October, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- Galesburg is pretty slick bringing Beans, aka Mr Ballbeam, to town.
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