I’ve decided i’m going to make Fridays a day where i post a you tube clip of a jam i really dig. here is the first offering, hope you like it, i had such a crush on Sheila E and still have the record that gets pulled out often. I was going to do Glamorous Life but couldn’t find a video for it but found this, back in the day when she has hanging with Prince circa 86-87. Why don’t bands dress like this anymore?
Kia Ora people! Hope the summer is treating you well and your vitamin D levels are good. It’s Waitangi Weekend again which means New Zealand is 170 years old and our daughter Haromi Te Ata celebrates her eighth birthday as well as Bob Marley. To celebrate we have a couple of special offers only valid for this weekend.
50% off all summer season fashion stock.
Board shorts and selected denim are only $60.00.
All guys and girls summer season tees are only $40.00.
This offer is only valid for this weekend and only available in store.
We are now offering coffee in store and have teamed up with Tom and the good people at Hawthorne Coffee and developed the Aroha Organic blend. Join us tomorrow for a complementary sample and let us know what you think of our new blend.
Blue Bay Motor Camp was a landmark in Opoutama, Mahia. The developers and owners have since cut down all the trees and subdivided the land up for high end coastal development. the only problem with this is the locals burn it down.
check out the video after the jump.
even when it’s not you can look at this and start whistling the tune and go to that kapai place.
One of my all time favourite DJ’s Norman Jay will be in Aotearoa this weekend and i need to find a way to get to welli to see the living legend live and direct. Norman Jay has been playing rare groove, philly soul and disco boogie goodness for about 30 years. The Good Times soundsystem is one of the heavyweights from the Nottinghill Carnival featuring Norman and his brother Joey and i was one of the thousands of people who would tune in to BBC London to hear his weekly sunday show. This geezer is diamond and i can asure you this is something you do not want to miss.
Good Times at Frank Kitts Park for
Rugby Sevens Weekend
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th February
12mid-day – 12mid-night each day.
Free entry – R18
Featuring:
Norman Jay MBE (UK)
The Monkey Business DJs
Fried Chicken Soundsystem
Redbird Jnr
DJ Dunsta
and heaps more still to be confirmed over the 2 days!
Sandwiches and Wellington City Council present a FREE two day festival to coincide with Wellington’s Rugby Sevens weekend. The festival will run from 12mid-day until 12 mid-night on both the Friday and Saturday and is centralised around British music icon Norman Jay MBE (UK) and his ‘Good Times’ brand.
The festival will also feature a number of Wellington’s leading DJs over the two days, licensed bars – including the purpose built ‘Nation Bar’ on its first trip to the capital, food stalls, and TV screens to show all the action from the stadium down the road.
Located at Upper Frank Kitts Park, a short distance from the stadium, the festival is ideally located as a meeting place before, during, or after the rugby. Or better yet, forget the stadium and enjoy a full day of music in the sun!
The event will be a vibrant addition to an already colourful weekend on one of the capitals biggest occasions.
Sun / Grass / Music / GOOD TIMES !!!
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here’s some podcast goodness from Norman Jay
http://www.carnivalism.co.uk/?p=8
http://www.timeout.com/london/features/5507/Norman_Jay-s_Carnival_podcast.html
Opening is at 5.30pm this Friday (5th). Hastings City Art Gallery, 201 Eastbourne Street East, Hastings.
The ‘Source’ exhibition and art project aims at celebrating gender and overcoming some of the challenges experienced by women artists today. Given the provocation ‘to revisit the notion of a feminine aesthetic, (a highly contested feminist art discourse of the eighties), nine Hawke’s Bay women gathered at each other’s studios to discuss emerging themes and provide constructive criticism as the work evolved. In some cases it has fostered cross-pollination of media practice and collaboration between parties.
The women have a diverse skill base and highly individual practice. Their differing backgrounds, ages, and life experience are connected by their experiences as women, and this has manifested itself in the exhibition. Co curator and Director of the Gallery writes in the catalogue for the exhibition “These women are empowered, productive contemporary New Zealand artists, worthy of following, watching and collecting. They lay bare their most personal politics, struggles, histories and love of life, so that you might consider them as more than the human condition at its source”. The exhibition runs from 6 February until 23 March 2010. There is a fantastic public programme of artist talks and workshops over the six week period. Check the Hastings City Art Gallery website for details.
The SOURCE participants are (in alphabetical order) Jo Blogg, Linda Bruce, Leanne Culy, Fiona Hislop, Anneliese Hough, Elaine Mayer, Jill Webster, Desna Whaanga Schollum and Denise Wilkinson.”
Titihuia
Marine Parade
Leanne Culy X Rakai Karaitiana – Pania Montage in Green
Yep that is right, worldwide maestro GP is making his way down to Aotearoa for a one night engagement with the Turnaround fellows at the end of feb. check the conch site for more info and tickets.
Check his site for podcasts or BBC for his weekly radio show
The summer sale gets underway this firday. Sale stock includes the summer collections from Zambesi, NomD, Helen Cherry, Workshop Denim, Beth Ellery, Camille Howe, Karen Walker, Mister, Kate Sylvester and Salasai.
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