What's On

Minuit. Photo / Supplied

FAMILY
Hear children's stories as told by your favourite New Zealand actors, musicians and personalities as part of the Family Reading Night Programme. The Epsom library will feature guest readers Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Max Cryer, Oscar Kightley, Karyn Hay, Nick D, Fiona Macdonald and Andrew Fagan putting their spin on classic tales..

Read with the Stars: Celebrity Storytime - Epsom Library, 195 Manukau Road, Epsom, July 25-August 1, 2pm

CLUBS/DJ
DJ/producer Recloose has just returned from a short American tour, and we can welcome him back to his adopted home here this Friday night. He supports New Zealand's answer to Erykah Badu - Ladi 6 - at 4.20 on K Rd. Ladi will be performing songs off her most recent album Time Is Not Much with DJ Parks.

Ladi6 Winter Tour with Recloose - 4.20, 373 K Rd, Newton, 9pm

ELECTRONICA
AUT students have it good this week, with a couple of fine gigs tonight and tomorrow. Fans of Kiwi electronica will be heading along tonight to catch Minuit with drum 'n' bass party starters State Of Mind at the Hikuwai Plaza. Then on Friday expect a more funk, soul and reggae-influenced night with Sola Rosa and Iva Lamkum, supported by Liquid Colours.

SOM & Minuit - AUT Hikuwai Plaza, July 23; Sola Rosa, AUT Hikuwai Plaza, July 24

ROCK
Auckland rockers Luger Boa, the band fronted by former D4 legend Jimmy Christmas, are flooring people with their twisted take on rock and have just dropped their new single I Wanna Girlfriend (applications in writing please, ladies?). Since supporting Kings of Leon earlier in the year they have been going from strength to strength and warm up for a national tour with Head Like A Hole with a gig at Sale St tonight.

Luger Boa, Black River Drive - Sale St, Freeman's Bay, July 23

FESTIVALS
Get ready to do a double take or two if you head along to the NZ Body Art Awards this Saturday. Takapuna's Bruce Mason Centre will be a little surreal that evening, as hundreds of artists compete, utilising bodypainting and special effects techniques with the human body as the canvas.

NZ Body Art Awards 2009 - Bruce Mason Centre, Cnr Hurstmere Rd & The Promenade, Takapuna, July 25, 7.30pm

ROCK/POP
The latest production from the Auckland Theatre Company opens tonight at the Maidment Theatre. God Of Carnage takes a comedic look at the often juvenile behaviour of parents when it comes to controlling their kids. Legendary actress Miranda Harcourt stars alongside Peter Elliott, Hera Dunleavy and Outrageous Fortune's Dave Fane.

God of Carnage - Auckland Theatre Co, Maidment Theatre, to August 15

THEATRE
A trio of Auckland bands cater to their under-18 fans this weekend with an all-ages show at the Ellen Melville Hall. Power pop-punks Cut Off Your Hands play with Collapsing Cities, Brand New Math and the funky Bionic Pixie - who you may know from her song Toss The Coin, which features on a current Glassons advertisement.

Cut Off Your Hands, Bionic Pixie - Ellen Melville Hall, Freyburg Place, July 25


ROCK
Shayne Carter, still known to many as the frontman of Straitjacket Fits, has been leading his post-Fits outfit Dimmer for several years and three albums now with a fourth one, Degrees of Existence, arriving next week. The quartet have been out road-testing the new tracks on a brief North Island tour, which winds up tomorrow in Auckland and Saturday in Hamilton.

Dimmer - King's Arms, 59 France St, Newton, July 24, 9pm; Flow, Hamilton, July 25