AndyFul
Active Member
Thought this was so unusual it deserved it’s own thread to see if, though very unlikely, any Spotlighters had heard about / were attending this.
Wanganui is a town of about 40,000 near the south of New Zealand’s North Island. Nothing of note has ever happened there in a long time. I happen to be in town for Christmas as the wife comes from there and we’re visiting her family. Whilst I was discussing over lunch with some of her younger relatives what on earth they can get up to in the evenings when there is essentially no nightlife one of them happened to mention that some English DJ was playing at a local bar on Boxing Day. I thought little of it as there’s a few UK expats kicking around here but asked about it as thought I could drag some people out for a few drinks. She then showed me the flyer and it turns out it’s Carl Cox! After explaining to them how big he is outside of small town New Zealand I’ve convinced them to go.
Can’t wait, turns out Cox’s motor sport team have a presence at the annual Boxing Day races in Wanganui so he’s in town and fancies doing a set. I don’t think I can explain how amazing / bizarre it is to have anyone even close to his renown playing here, this is a very out of the way town built essentially to service the dairy farms that surround it. No-one outside of New Zealand has heard of it, I know some kiwis even who couldn’t place it on a map. A recent front page headline in the local paper was that the nurses who graduated in the most recent course here had all got jobs, this is unprecedented!
It all finishes at 2am, which the locals consider to be shockingly late, I’m still in disbelief.
Wanganui is a town of about 40,000 near the south of New Zealand’s North Island. Nothing of note has ever happened there in a long time. I happen to be in town for Christmas as the wife comes from there and we’re visiting her family. Whilst I was discussing over lunch with some of her younger relatives what on earth they can get up to in the evenings when there is essentially no nightlife one of them happened to mention that some English DJ was playing at a local bar on Boxing Day. I thought little of it as there’s a few UK expats kicking around here but asked about it as thought I could drag some people out for a few drinks. She then showed me the flyer and it turns out it’s Carl Cox! After explaining to them how big he is outside of small town New Zealand I’ve convinced them to go.
Can’t wait, turns out Cox’s motor sport team have a presence at the annual Boxing Day races in Wanganui so he’s in town and fancies doing a set. I don’t think I can explain how amazing / bizarre it is to have anyone even close to his renown playing here, this is a very out of the way town built essentially to service the dairy farms that surround it. No-one outside of New Zealand has heard of it, I know some kiwis even who couldn’t place it on a map. A recent front page headline in the local paper was that the nurses who graduated in the most recent course here had all got jobs, this is unprecedented!
It all finishes at 2am, which the locals consider to be shockingly late, I’m still in disbelief.
