My Dunedin - I have been needing something to get excited...

I have been needing something to get excited about.

There have been so many great gigs and events on over the past few weeks, and I have been locked into a study-for-exams depression for what feels like forever. but HURRAH the light at the end of the Tunnell is in sight! On Friday the 13th (the day of my last exam!!!) The Veils will be playing at Sammy’s Entertainment Venue, and they will be playing with special guests An Emerald City! I am very very excited about this- the eclectic Indie Music scene in Dunedin seems to be pretty quiet (or maybe I am not looking in the right places), but either way this ‘kind’ of gig in Dunedin will be fairly new for me, and a great way to celebrate the end of exams!

The Veils are a London based, Kiwi Indie/Alt Rock band, and the show on Friday is a part of their “home-coming” tour (according to their website, not all of the members of the band have Kiwi pass-ports so seems peculiar to call it a home-coming tour..although it is one)! Tickets can be found here for $22.50, and a great review of The Veils if you are yet to hear them can be found here.

As for An Emerald City- they toured earlier in the year and deserve a post in their own right, so perhaps next study break yeah?

Nov 7 2009

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About me

Welcome to my blog titled 'My Dunedin'. The decision to live a blogged lifestyle hasn't come because I think I am particularly interesting, nor because I think I have anything important to say. Really its a way for me to showcase my Dunedin to friends who are both here, and abroad, and also it will act as a collection of thoughts and experiences for myself.

Also, I think there are so many amazing things about Dunedin outside of the 'scarfiness' that a lot of us use to define our (often short-lived) days in this student-filled city. The ways in which many of us define Dunedin usually have something to do with our alcohol fuelled, rioting, days of yesteryear. (Think the cook-a-thon, the rugby, the hall competitions, the Selwyn ballet, the willowbank dairy, the Hyde street keg party, the Undie 5 hundy...oh the nostalgia)
Whlie I definately accept those aspects of Dunedin as a part of my time here, I also want to look at that other side of Dunedin, the side that not many of us take the time to get to see. The side of which is buzzing with local creative talents, the place filled with secret shops, and hidden away coves and treasures. The places, and things which are slowly becoming a part of my Dunedin of today, and hopefully will become a part of yours.

I will try and keep this updated, but I am very useless, and also very technically unaware so I will try my best, and see how I go..