Circle Jerk 2007: all the sordid pics

Finally. I have my life and my sanity back. The Hamilton Circle Jerk is over for another year. It's no easy task to co-ordinate twelve bands, a host of volunteers, and as many music-lovers as Ward Lane could hold, but it all came together wonderfully on the …

Your gig guide (28 May - 3 June)

Monday: It's cold and miserable out there. Why would you leave the house when you can stay in and squabble on the internet? Go on, you know you want to.

Tuesday: Canadian posthardcore screamers Alexisonfire play the St James in Auckland with The Bleeders, City Newton …

Saturday night's alright for...

Drinking, dancing and partying at Ward Lane, with a dozen top-notch local artists playing their own and each others' songs at The Third Annual Hamilton Circle Jerk.

See you there tomorrow night. Bands start 9:30 sharp, don't be late.

Your gig guide (21-27 May)

Monday

Comedy Convoy hits Hamilton tonight, featuring the stars of the 2007 NZ International Comedy Festival. That's at Clarence Street theatre for one night only, tickets from TicketDirect or public libraries.

Tuesday

Hamilton Film Society meets every Tuesday at …

Nerves of Jelly

My friend Ben has just launched a "visual freeforall" PDF zine called Nerves Of Jelly. Issue one has photos, crafts and art from me and a bunch of my super talented friends. Nerves Of Jelly is free to download, read and share, so pass it on!

Download Nerves Of Jelly 001 here

Tonight at La Commune

La Commune Café now has a liquor licence, and they're celebrating with live original music performances. Pull up a chair and a glass of wine and enjoy some after-work entertainment from our favourite pool-boy Rab Heath, with Pete Fountain from 7:30 this evening. …

Mid-week Madness!

Tonight! Gigs on weeknights are the new rock 'n roll.

Your gig guide (14-19 May)

The Nexus gig guide appears every Monday in the Hamilton student magazine Nexus. Get your events listings in to petra[at]petrajane.com by 2pm the previous Tuesday.

Hamilton Film Society meets every Tuesday at Victoria Cinema. Tonight's screening is Costa Boces' …

Get Jerked!

It's time once again for Hamilton's biggest and best celebration of local music. One night, one stage, a dozen local artists all playing short sets of original songs and locally-grown covers. From hip-hop to hardcore, rising stars Kimbra and The Deadly Deaths to the …

Snapshots

Stanley Jagger from The Gills, looking very Young Marlon Brando.

I had to leave last night's Ladybird/Glasnost show before either band played, but I did get to see rather splendid performances by local lads The Deadly Deaths and The Gills. Still not sick of The …

Contact FM presents the Third Annual Hamilton Circle Jerk

It's time once again for Hamilton's biggest and best celebration of local music. More than a dozen local artists will join forces for one huge show, performing their own and each others' songs at The Third Annual Hamilton Circle Jerk.

From hardcore to hip-hop, …

Your gig guide (8-12 May)

This gig guide appears every week in the local student mag Nexus. Email or comment if you've got any events you'd like to include here, or anything that should feature in the local music column 'Citric'.

Hamilton Film Society meets every Tuesday at Victoria Cinema. …

Flickring

I am officially a social networking slut. Here, Myspazz, Last.fm, LJ, Flickr...if there's an 'interests' box to fill in, i am there. So far Flickr is rapidly proving to be my favourite. For one, you collect random strangers as 'contacts', not 'friends' (I feel …

Your Gig Guide (30 April - 6 May)

Welcome to New Zealand Music Month, the one month of the year where we show our love of local music by treating it like a charitable pity-case. Look out for the usual slew of awareness-raising events and minor-celebrity endorsements.

This Thursday, you can catch …

Get nostalgic

Ah sixth form, reading Das Kapital and smoking Spaceman candy cigarettes on the back cricket pitch. Tuesdays meant the latest NME and also MTV UK's Alternative Nation, at some ungodly set-the-VRC-and-hope-for-the-best hour. Discovering Tortoise and Belle and Sebastian …

Listen up

You there, take out those stupid white earphones and turn up the speakers on your computer. I've stumbled upon some pure gems lately, and you're darned well going to give them a listen. OK? Let's begin then.

1. Dappled Cities from Sydney, Australia. They're energetic, …

Getting a RAW deal.

I don't like proprietary file formats. I don't like the ubiquity of Microsoft Word .docs. I don't like websites that only work in IE, or offer streamed media in Windows Media formats (or Quicktime, for that matter, but at least they don't make my iBook cough up a …

They got a great big convoy

Golly. Fleet FM have just posted the line-up of Conoy 5, their uber-mega-party at The Space in Newmarket this Saturday night. Highlights include Cortina, Collapsing Cities, Phony Bone, Thought Creature, Kittyhawk, Golden Axe, Megaheroes vs MC Stormtroopa, Wayne …

Conclusions and New Beginnings

Im a top-ten recording artist. True story. Satan, from Amy Racecars new album Conclusions, is sitting at #7 on the 95bTop Ten. That backing-bitch sass was a result of locking Dynamo Gos Maria Mo, Nexus editor Roz, pop sensation Kimbra and myself in the linen …

Bury It

The brand new vid from The Deadly Deaths. Local goodness.