this is my VERY late review, enjoy...

Walking through town (Wellington) on a mild Saturday night, I saw a mud-splattered four wheel drive. Now in the city, this is a VERY odd thing to see, what with the huge number of four wheel drives, which never see let alone drive on dirt, seemed quite strange to see a fully mud splattered car... That was the beginning of a great night, I got on the bus to go to indigo, when some random lady just gave me her bus ticket!!! That made my night, I was so stoked, I ended up giving it to a mate who I met on the bus as well, good bless all you generous Wellingtonians. It’s inspired me to try be generous when I can be.
Arriving at Indigo around nineish, I found no door man (fifteen minutes late I was told) three punters and Mother Guru “Bugger this” I said to myself and headed over to Blinks place, to see if that was more interesting…
The Boys from Autozamm and 1QA were already there, so we sat around, swearing and commenting on things, and generally just have a laid back time, I found out a band called picture were playing “Who the Fuck are picture???” being the catchword of the night.
An extra band, one hour behind, the prosects of getting home before one o’clock did not look promising. But I got stuck in.

Picture were alright, I was already biased against them for being the fourth band, so it took a while before I started listening to them, I got a tool/metal feel coming from them, they seemed to be finding their style.

I left half way through Picture’s set and sat around, had a beer and socialised, comments seemed to be mainly bout peoples supposed sexuality, so I was quite happy to leave and listen to Autozamm. From the start they impressed me, very energetic, all over the place. They were obviously enjoying themselves. I won’t even go into Canvas comparisons ;).
Autozamm were loud and fast, just how I like it, they went straight into their set, but it took a few songs before it felt like they were really into it, day to day being the song where they “stepped up”. I tried to stay back and be objective, but I just couldn’t. I was right up front with about five other people and we were having a great time, now I don’t like unstuck and I still don’t. It’s better live, but I think there are stronger songs in Autozamm’s play-list.
All in all I was impressed by how good Autozamm were, I’d definitely see them again, if you see a show with Autozamm in it, go see them for yourself!!!

Now I’ve seen 1QA live about three times and every time I see them, they get better, it took a while for a good crowd to form for 1QA and in that time I managed to lose one of my ear plugs, not good, so I was in for a 1QA sound assault.
What struck me about 1QA was how tight they were, goin straight into their monster single “Ready to Rock” they were rockin’ from the word go!!! I always enjoy seeing the string section getting into it, Josh/Jon screaming away and Phil singing, like a bat outta hell. I wrote down something about corny jokes, but I can’t remember what they said, so I assume they made crap jokes during songs, worth it though.
I heard someone shout out “Shihad try-hards” I think that night, they were better than the Pacifier I saw at Wellington, which is quite a complement, coming from me.
“Why aren’t they big???” I thought to myself, compared to what I’ve heard on the radio, they are so much better than anything on the airwaves. I guess it comes down to lack of a big label backing them, which is sad, cause they could be so big.
Anyway they rocked, the growing crowd loved them, they did all the rock star poses and facials, I’ve come to expect. To end their slot, they pushed over some amps and smacked around the mic stand, an awesome show…

Next up were Mother Guru.
They had a crowd of about sixty, to a hundred people already there, at one am, waiting for them, they went straight into it!!!
I’ve seen them once before and they were awesome that night, I always love seeing Darryl in full flight, dreds flying, guitar flowing, he was just full of energy…
They have a huge stage presence, I guess its because they have played together so long, they just know each other so well, this showed, in their confidence and just how tight they were. A level of manic intensity, which I don’t see very often, seemed to posses them.
Their set sped through and before I knew it they were on their last song, just Darryl and Tama (the drummer) goin at it like maniacs… an awesome vibe really.
Now before you go thinking this is a biased review, I’m not a fan of Mother Guru, I don’t enjoy their music, but they are more than just music, it’s something else, something I can’t describe, something great. I’ll leave you with this quote by Josh, the bassist of Mother Guru

//MOTHER GURU is my life, love and passion, this is why when you see me, Daz, Tama and Mo on stage, 4 consciousness' turn into an omnipotent energy of wisdom, passion and love for you, the people we feed off//