Kora at Cuba St Carnival
A few shots of the street here. UPDATED! Now including pics of the Phoenix Foundation, SJD and more.
posted by Jessie at 06:37
16 comments
February 26, 2005
A few shots of the street here. UPDATED! Now including pics of the Phoenix Foundation, SJD and more.
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Kora were great... the Phoenix Foundation were superb... the guy doing bird calls... ... .... ...... ...........
You were so right! Kora were choice * a million.
Go Kora! But where are the Phoenix Foundation pics... signed, a guilty non-attending fan
Funny you should say that... Phnx pics on the way, check back later tonight or tomorrow :)
More pics would be a good idea. You could also say something about the street Carnival, I mean, give us a short description.
I have no idea what it could be like.
Nelson - it's been decidedly autumnal here recently. This morning I even used my heater!!
Marlene - I have include a few new pictures on the same link above. Good point though, I suppose I just expected everyone to know about the carnival! It's a sort of street fair on one of Wellington's most prominent streets: Cuba St. There are stages with live music playing all day and in the evening there's a 'night parade' with illuminated floats. You'd expect to see a lot of market stalls, but there weren't many this year, and the street vendors were mainly selling food.
Last year the festival ran for three days, but it was scaled down to one this year. There's change ahead for the upper end of the street, with a big ol' bypass scything through sometime soon.
Your pics and reports almost make it bearable to live so damned far away. After Nelson, can I swap bodies with you?
Was there a crush of bodies for the PF set? Last year there was, and I got to be in the front row, and it was so awesome I 'bout cried.
SJD is God. Have only ever seen him play with Don McGlashan, though. One day.....
Mmmm. Phoenixy.
Hey, Tomatohead, haven't see you around for a while.
Morphess: take a look at this picture of the stage, taken while the Phoenix Foundation were faffing about prior to their set. You'll see the red thing on the stage is used as a stencil for the banner over the top. Cool huh!
Tomatohead, the crowd were pretty reticent for the first half of the set, with only myself and Joel dancing somewhat self-consciously. Eventually people got up though, and by the time they played 'Going Fishing' there was a decent crowd. They played a lot earlier in the day than last year, at 12:30 instead of around 5, which I think accounts for the apparent lack of enthusiasm, since there was a huge crowd for Kora who played at 4:30.
I don't think I'm so keen on all this body-swapping, btw.
Yeah, all the stalls were put in the Buller St carpark which was weiord. I think the scaled back one day carnival was better, though I worked all through the last one.
Yeah, you would get a bad deal in a body swap as I'm 38 week preggars and should probably be lactating like a cow v. soon.
Onya for dancing to the PF before everyone else decided they'd join in.
Barry: Hiya. Had been traveling a bit. I haven't posted to Thorn Tree in a while, but I lurk. My latest copy of Saveur Mag. has a recipe for meat pies! Hope you are exceedingly well.
Is that right Jimmy! I was pretty lame and didn't even go all the way down Garrett St.
Tomatohead: 38 weeks pregnant!! Wow! And thanks for the link to your site, I was trying to send you an email one time but that garden site (?) I went to via nzm wouldn't let me.
My comments record is a lowly 21, I think, on this post - a gripe about my job etc. And six of them are mine. Given that this is number 20, I think I hear the sound of breaking... do I?
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/nzmusic/1939/Kora.html
Hey Jessie, just found your website through Dubber's blog. Nice one. (Though after seeing all the photos of men with beards have I actually stumbled across the first Phoenix Foundation stalker site???? If I have then give me a call and I can set you up to pop-up some music video display boxes.)
Oh, that's what I thought you meant anyway.
Morphess, I'm all about quality, not quantity. Please repeat that back to me following my post later today...
Stephen: hi! I am so not a stalker. Not of Phnx, anyway... I just like their music heaps :)
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