Australia/New Zealand tour

Random_Wookie

Aussiegiventofly wrote:

I know you guys must be getting sick of me doing this but it makes my day.

..........75 sleeps till Adelaide.....................
..........80 sleeps till Sydney......................
..........83 sleeps till Brisbane....................

nah it reminds me of how close, yet how far away the concerts are, 78 till melbourne!!! w00t

TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jo

Aussiegiventofly wrote:

I know you guys must be getting sick of me doing this but it makes my day.

..........75 sleeps till Adelaide.....................
..........80 sleeps till Sydney......................
..........83 sleeps till Brisbane....................

................72 sleeps till Perth...............
...............The only one I'm going to......

my2hands

i think you mate's should grow a pair and fucking tailgate

Random_Wookie

15 days till album is released! have we had leak yet?

ZiggyStar

my2hands wrote:

i think you mate's should grow a pair and fucking tailgate

Helllooo? Did we invite you into this thread? OUT! :evil:

Random_Wookie

my2hands wrote:

i think you mate's should grow a pair and fucking tailgate

a pair of what? ducks? chickens?cows?

doompony

Oz Jammer wrote:

Lead Balloon is better live than Second Chance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKo5aPyjNM

lead balloon is the best one live - theramin solo!

doompony

mt smart isn't too far from the city... it's in the burbs..uh.. industrial burb-land, but it's only about a 10 minute car trip i reckon. i wonder if there'll be alright parking......or if i should taxi.

the quality inn in newton is okay. i've stayed there the last 2 times i've been in auckland. big rooms, lotsa space, right off symonds st. the first time i stayed it seemed nicer... last time... different room obviously, it wasn't AS nice but it was still pretty decent. the owners are really nice.

i've stayed in the ritz a couple of times, but tht's in green lane... which isn't CBD. but still pretty close. that place was nicer than the quality inn but further away.

the only other place i've stayed in aucks that i can remember was shit. so won[t bother mentioning it.

the gong guys who came to 7WC stayed at the novotel at the bottom of queen st. from memory that place was pretty nice.......of course than was like 8 years ago, so who knows.

DonJon

Hey doompony top info CHEERS

Ive looked at the Newton....is it this joint? And how far a walk to CBD?
http://www.newton121.co.nz/

Zenith, Zig, Jim, Oz..... $104 each night for 1 x queen 2 single and we can get a rollout bed again??

https://www.thebookingbutton.com.au/pub ... N121DIRECT

If doompony says location is good this could be the go I reckon

doompony

it's pretty close to the centre of the city... if i consider queen st the centre... looking at a map it says queen st links up to newton rd... we didn't try to leave the area really... there's bars and restaurants and allsorts right in the area...............

my flatmate and i got stuck in the lift at the quality inn. quite embarrassing.



just don't stay at the empire.. we stayed there at BDO 2007. biggest piece of shit. fancy to the eye but everything was CHEAP fancy. bed like concrete. metal finishes actually shitty plated plastic.

doompony

sorry, i'm on an EEEPC and the screen is too small to get a decent map look...

compare newton rd, which links to symonds st and queen st. queen st is the.. main, main, main area of the auckland CBD.

you can see the sky tower pretty close by from newton 121. the green is killing me, but eh, it's clean, not that expensive and quite comfy. we fell asleep on the couch watching spongebob. good times. plus there's a servo right across the road if you have the munchies.

Random_Wookie

doompony wrote:

my flatmate and i got stuck in the lift at the quality inn. quite embarrassing.

you have to tell us what happened!

i used to drive a goods elevator, got stuck in their a few times!

doompony

oh yeah and they have washing machines and dryers in the bathrooms .. plus heated towel rails (from memory) if you need to get clothes dry.

doompony

Random_Wookie wrote:

doompony wrote:

my flatmate and i got stuck in the lift at the quality inn. quite embarrassing.

you have to tell us what happened!

its not that interesting.. they have a small service type lift and it has a big sign on the wall that says you can't have anything on the floor of it outside of the black square.

my bag was on the my foot when the lift started but part of it shfited and was touching the black bit so the thing wouldn't move and wouldn't open. we were calling out "uh.. stuck? help!?" and then about 5 minutes and it being really fucking hot (we'd just driven 10.5 hours and it was HOT there) we realised and moved the bag, the elevator started... and we vowed never to tell.


ALSO< we were going to cat power which was at the powerstation.. which is on mt eden rd... which is off symonds st. we didn't know this and got a taxi which drove around several blocks to get there... got out of the taxi.. looked up... saw the restaurant on the corner of newton rd and symonds... felt very ripped off.

so don't use auckland co-op tax company.... the newton 121 owners told us when we told them they'd have stopped us if we'd mentioned it. they were lovely.

DonJon

doompony wrote:

it's pretty close to the centre of the city... if i consider queen st the centre... looking at a map it says queen st links up to newton rd... we didn't try to leave the area really... there's bars and restaurants and allsorts right in the area...............

my flatmate and i got stuck in the lift at the quality inn. quite embarrassing.



just don't stay at the empire.. we stayed there at BDO 2007. biggest piece of shit. fancy to the eye but everything was CHEAP fancy. bed like concrete. metal finishes actually shitty plated plastic.

Awesome good work. As long as its no more than a 10-15 stroll to town Im happy with that.

Think we've found our Auck accomm

doompony

i know it doesn't really show shit..

but this photo is from that place..

http://ratpony.com/monkeyauckland.jpg

heh. clean sheets? and the people who serviced the room every morning would prop that monkey upon the pillow every morning which i thought was cute.

ZiggyStar

DonJon wrote:

doompony wrote:

it's pretty close to the centre of the city... if i consider queen st the centre... looking at a map it says queen st links up to newton rd... we didn't try to leave the area really... there's bars and restaurants and allsorts right in the area...............

my flatmate and i got stuck in the lift at the quality inn. quite embarrassing.



just don't stay at the empire.. we stayed there at BDO 2007. biggest piece of shit. fancy to the eye but everything was CHEAP fancy. bed like concrete. metal finishes actually shitty plated plastic.

Awesome good work. As long as its no more than a 10-15 stroll to town Im happy with that.

Think we've found our Auck accomm

We have? Where?

Random_Wookie

doompony wrote:

i know it doesn't really show shit..

but this photo is from that place..

http://ratpony.com/monkeyauckland.jpg

heh. clean sheets? and the people who serviced the room every morning would prop that monkey upon the pillow every morning which i thought was cute.

the monkey does not look like he/she is enjoying it at all!

ZiggyStar

DonJon wrote:

Hey doompony top info CHEERS

Ive looked at the Newton....is it this joint? And how far a walk to CBD?
http://www.newton121.co.nz/

Zenith, Zig, Jim, Oz..... $104 each night for 1 x queen 2 single and we can get a rollout bed again??

https://www.thebookingbutton.com.au/pub ... N121DIRECT

If doompony says location is good this could be the go I reckon

Looks good! Those rates are for 2 people and you have to add on $20 NZ for each extra person. So it's $164 NZ.....$132 AU -- $26.50 AU each per night -- What a fucking BARGAIN!

Good work DonJon and doompony!

Where are you staying, doompony?

doompony

Random_Wookie wrote:

doompony wrote:

i know it doesn't really show shit..

but this photo is from that place..

http://ratpony.com/monkeyauckland.jpg

heh. clean sheets? and the people who serviced the room every morning would prop that monkey upon the pillow every morning which i thought was cute.

the monkey does not look like he/she is enjoying it at all!

http://ratpony.com/monkey.html

pfft. he loved every second of his trip.