If you haven't yet made it along to the Ignition fringe festival, then hurry up oww! The week-long showcase of local music, art, poetry and performance ends this Saturday night. So far PJ.com has seen public art wig out the squares in Garden Place, a Dadaesque interpretive-dance food fight at the Performance Cafe, the Putaruru country music club, an improvised zombie soap-opera, exhibitions of beautiful collage and photography, and the aftermath of a performance poetry party. And it's not over yet.

Murder, Hope of Women is on tonight and tomorrow at Meteor theatre. Steal This Play is at the University's New Place theatre. And there are more exhibitions, performance pieces, plays and workshops all over town. And on Saturday night, The Night of the Freakin' Hamiltons takes over Flow on Victoria Street with Kill The Zodiac, Doteyes, Bingodisiac, Wellington's one-man-dance-party Disasteradio and your new favourite band, The Trons. They haven't even played a gig yet, but they've already had the attention of Campbell Live, Gizmodo and even Pitchfork. Here's a live clip of the feisty fourtet rehearsing 'Sister Robot':

Ex-Hamilton ex-band Yokel Ono are back together for one show, tonight at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, to release their EP So Many Enemies. Check em out if you're in the big city. This will probably be their last show in forever.

PJ.com will be back in Wellington next weekend and, wonderfully, so will Connan Mockasin. He put on a stunning performance with Liam Finn and co last weekend (which involved extreme tambourining, electrified violin and autoharp, bass with built-in microphone and a bright green robe with pink fake-fur trim), and now our favourite psychedelic indie-pop elf has some shows of his own: Friday 27 June at Happy, with Good Laika, Leigh Sawmill on 5 July, and Auckland's Backbeat Bar (above the Rock Shop) on the 10th and 11th.