This Week's NZ Music Month Highlights
We’re almost a week into NZ Music Month now, so hopefully you made it out over the weekend and caught a gig, two, or three. You can see what we’ve been up to over at the NZMM blog on http://www.thewire.co.nz/nzmm
But this being a brand new week, there is a bunch of stuff happening that you should be aware of:
Alt TV might be making the news for all sorts of reasons at the moment, but we’ll confine ourselves to the fact that they are in the throes of their NZ Music Week – playing 100% local content for your ears and eyeballs. Check ‘em out – apparently you can do so online now too at http://www.alttv.co.nz .
Auckland’s Galatos are keeping themselves nice and busy this May, with a bumper crop of local gigs taking place throughout the month. This week you can catch City Newton Bombers (Wednesday) and The Phoenix Foundation and Cassette (Friday). Peruse their whole schedule by clicking http://www.5am.co.nz
Further down the line the Erupt Lake Taupo Festival gets underway this week, with more multi-disciplinary shows than you can shake a stick at. If I was to pick just one of them to recommend, it would have to be Moana and The Tribe, who play this Saturday. Take a look at http://www.eruptfestival.co.nz for more info about this gig as well as everything else they're up to.
Wellington hosts two very different shows this Friday, with the NZ Symphony Orchestra’s Made In NZ concert performing new contemporary works at the Wellington Town Hall, then a little later the Mint Chicks blaze through town, Bar Bodega to be specific, as part of their national tour (with mates The Transistors in tow).
Saturday night in Christchurch sees Tahuna Breaks (Dux de Lux), Antix (Base), and dDub (Al's Bar) all doing their bit to keep the city lively, and a little further south in Dunedin the weekend is capped off by the Dunedin City Jazz Orchestra playing a Sunday afternoon show at the Botanic Gardens Bandstand.
That’s just a smidgen of what’s going on – check the gig guide at http://www.nzmusicmonth.co.nz for listings from around the country, and get out to some already!