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FRIDAY 11 Erupt Lake Taupo Festival
Street Chant
Multiple Venues, Taupo
Snake Pit Ticketek.co.nz
8.30pm, $10, Door Sales Only
The ERUPT Lake Taupo Festival kicks off on Thursday 10 May and runs for 11 days at multiple venues around Taupo including the Great Lake Centre Theatre, the Crater Room, the Cube Club, the Taupo Museum and Art Gallery and more. The largest cultural event staged in Central Plateau region, the ninth ERUPT Lake Taupo Festival offers everything from large scale outdoor events to intimate concerts and showcases New Zealand and international theatre, dance, music, cabaret, comedy, visual arts and an array of community and education activities. Tickets are available now and more information about the festival can be found at erupt.co.nz.
Street Chant, Sherpa, Golden Axe, Evil Twins and the ARC will all be down at the Snake Pit on High Street for a double video premiere and single release party. It’s almost a little mini festival at one of the better new venues to open up shop in Auckland’s CBD. $10 entry for all these great bands and drink specials at the bar.
Tommy Ill Dux Live
8pm, $10-15, undertheradar.co.nz
Tommy Ill continues his album release tour for his first EMI release New Hat And A Haircut and takes to Christchurch this Friday with help from fan favourites Bang Bang Eche and robot Hawaiian pop heads Spring Break before the gang heads up to Auckland for a show at The Kings Arms.
The Food Show
Cal Wilson
Westpac Stadium
The Basement Theatre 10am, $15-25, foodshow.co.nz
7pm, $22-26, comedyfestival.co.nz
Whether you’re single, in a committed relationship, live by yourself, flat with a bunch of people, still live at home or go dumpster diving, it pays to know things about food. Like what goes good with what, and how chicken is delicious but can literally poison the shit out of you. Go get learned and eat nibbles at The Food Show.
When I was 10 I went to see a Cal Wilson show. I was with my mother and someone I called my aunty, even though she wasn’t really my aunty. Cal Wilson made jokes about periods and boners and sex, and I felt weird laughing in front of mum and aunty Ann.
Saturday 12 Presence Issue 10 Launch
Barry Morgan
Ian McKellen
Red Zone Reunion
Te Kapanga Gallery
Q Theatre
Clarence St Theatre
Dux Live
7.30pm, $5-10, Door Sales Only
9pm, $26-30, patronbase.com
Sherpa plays the issue 10 release party for Presence at the Te Karanga Gallery on K Road this Saturday. Feast your eyes on the latest issue which includes interviews with Opossum, Zowie, Sherpa, Perfect Hair Forever, Guy Williams and more.
It’s the last night of Barry Morgan’s World of Organs – the travelling salesman with love of organs who wants to mesmerise you with his eerily devious moustachioed grin and the golden syrup sounds of his 1981 Hammond Aurora Classic.
Southern Thrash Assault
The Golden Awesome
Refuel
Mighty Mighty 9pm, $10, Door Sales Only
Christchurch heavies Dissolution are heading down to Dunedin to headline the inaugural Southern Thrash Assault with very special support from Twist of Fate and War Saw. Awakened Inferno are also on the bill as they celebrate their new EP Tear It A New One.
7.30pm, $25-50, ticketek.co.nz
The thespian extraordinaire who is both Magneto and Gandalf is doing the theatre rounds across the country. Go see the ultimate grandfather storytelling voice tell stories in Ian McKellen On Stage - With Shakespeare, Tolkien and You.
8pm, $20, undertheradar.co.nz
Cosmic visionary songwriter Jed Town performs a retrospective voyage through his three decade career with help from the Features, Chris Orange and Jesse White. It’s a Fetus Productions revivalist extravaganza, and it’s all go this Saturday.
Capital Punishment Bar Medusa 8pm
It’s the Wellington chapter of the album release party for The Golden Awesome as the quartet celebrate the release of Autumn through US label M’Lady’s Records. The shoegazers will be joined by Terror Of The Deep for this night of psychedlia.
The third incarnation of the 12-hour metal festival features performances from Australia’s Fear The Setting Sun and locals Human, In Dread Response, New Way Home, Machete Justice, Subtract, Molest The Episcopate, Shakahn, Elephant of The Ocean, Scaphist, Bulletbelt and Rising Force.
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