TV
The free Christchurch concert on Saturday is shaping up to be the biggest event of its kind ever staged in New Zealand - and if you can't make it this weekend, TV3 is broadcasting it live to your lounge. The line-up includes the Exponents, who are reforming to play in their native city, Ray Columbus and Dinah Lee, who both started their careers in Christchurch, as well as Opshop, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn, the Feelers, J. Williams, Che Fu, Dane Rumble, Julia Deans, Minuit, Clap Clap Riot, Midnight Youth, Ivy Lies, and the Bats. The concert will screen live from midday until 8pm.
Also worth checking out is the documentary Winnebago Man (Saturday, 9.30pm, Documentary Channel) which tells the story of RV salesman Jack Rebney whose potty-mouthed outbursts were caught on tape during the filming of a Winnebago ad more than 20 years ago. The four-minute out-takes reel from the shoot made Rebney a cult star around the world and in recent years he's become a full-blown internet phenomenon thanks to YouTube.
MUSIC
Tonight is the end of what started out as a major chapter in New Zealand pop - the briefly reunited stellar* are playing the last of their farewell shows at Sale St, as a best-of from their three albums hits the shop shelves. The electro-pop-rock quartet sold more than 100,000 albums in the wake of 1999 breakthrough debut Mix. But they lost momentum as they headed into the Noughties and frontwoman Boh Runga headed to a solo career.
"To find a place in the world is a hard thing for any band," Runga told TimeOut, "and revisiting these songs and releasing a best-of album is a celebration of what we achieved as a band in our time."
MOVIES
It's a little quiet on the movie front, following the clamour around Eat Pray Love last week. But for white-knuckled horror and suspense fans Paranormal Activity 2 should provide a few frights in the middle of the night. In this sequel, Katie (played by Katie Featherston), who disappeared without trace in the first film, returns to torment her relatives with a plan to take her baby nephew.
Meanwhile, Katherine Heigl revisits her Knocked Up days in Life As We Know It, a romantic comedy about two mismatched friends who are left to look after a baby girl when her parents die in car accident.
OR...
Venture into the magical, mysterious, and often fanatical world of the Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo at ASB Showgrounds from Saturday until Monday. It's the place to be for all the best in sci-fi, gaming and comics and this year's guests include two Timelords, a Terminator and Aliens star, and Bud from Married With Children. Doctor Who's seven and eight, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann respectively, will be sharing their wisdom and signing autographs; then there's Michael Biehn, the guy who always looked broken, beaten and scarred in Terminator (as Kyle Reese) and Aliens (as Dwayne Hicks).
-TimeOut
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