NZ Comedy Guild's best male comedian and Queenstown favourite Brendhan Lovegrove plays master of ceremonies. Lovegrove will be aided and abetted by mimic Simon McKinney and arch musical parodist Gish, as the New Zealand contingent, with transtasman talents Justin Hamilton and Greg Fleet in tow.
The quartet bring wit to the Wakatipu first, on Thursday, August 18, in the Queenstown Memorial Hall, at 8pm.
Tickets cost $35 from Ticketdirect and doors open at 7.30pm.
• The roadshow hits Wanaka on August 19, Methven on August 20 and Dunedin on August 21.
Picks of the week
7pm: Queenstown music men Nigel Hirst, on saxophone, and Mark Wilson, on keyboard, serenade at the Friday Jazz Club, Les Alpes. Free.
10pm: Auckland rock band the Hangman play Dux de Lux, with support from Queenstown's the Flaming Drivers. Free.
10pm: Live & Loud in Revolver boasts top Christchurch rock acts the Valves, Sleeping Dogs, Hera and the House of Mountain.Free.
10pm: Queenstown DJs Downtown Brown and Turbohag deliver hip-hop, drum'n'bass and dubstep for Electric Fridays, at Subculture. Free entry before midnight, $5 afterwards.
TOMORROW
11am: Rubix Cuba bring a festival feeling to the Remarkables ski area with their blend of ska, rock, funk, punk, swing jazz and, yes, Cuban music, until 2pm. Free.
10pm: Trigonometry, hosted by DJ Shift, of Auckland, with Wakatipu selectors D-Jade and Preferinse, play drum'n'bass and dubstep, at Subculture. Early-bird door sales $5.
TUESDAY
8.30pm: The Queenstown Film Society, at Dorothy Brown's Cinema, Arrowtown, presents The Cove (2008), an Academy Award-winning documentary which uses state-of-the-art surveillance equipment and follows a group of animal rights activists as they infiltrate a Japanese cove to expose both the slaughter of dolphins and a serious threat to human health.
WEDNESDAY
7.30pm: Taxi Trio play jazz at Barmuda. Free.
THURSDAY
10pm: Auckland drum'n'bass duo State of Mind arrive at Subculture on their Nil by Mouth tour, featuring Nympho, MC Woody and support from D-Jade. Limited $15 pre-sales from the venue, Quest and Dash Tickets online.
10pm: The Adults, a supergroup starring Shihad frontman Jon Toogood, Julia Deans (Fur Patrol) and Shayne Carter (Dimmer, Straitjacket Fits) performs at Revolver, with F In Math in support. Tickets $37, from Quest and Dash Tickets.
