Hexed static

File under: waterfront, events, music, Wellington

Last night we went to yet another lagoon event: a live AV performance by Hexstatic. As an unadvertised bonus, there was an opening set by Module, mixing clips from Fat Freddy's Drop, Herbs, Pitch Black and Rhian Sheehan, along with his own pieces, to give a local flavour to the night.

Hexstatic themselves got a lively response from the large crowd: perhaps too lively in some cases (some of the "dancing" was concrete evidence of why hippies should never be allowed BZP). The sound system certainly seemed to cope with the low frequencies in some of their Drum & Bass tracks, to the extent that anyone with kidney stones would have found it quite therapeutic. I hope the residents of the nearby Odlins building penthouses enjoyed the free show, and in fact most of Te Aro must have known about it, as it was clearly audible even south of Vivian St.

Unfortunately, the power supply wasn't as solid, and right in the middle of a thumping breakbeat mashup of Nancy Sinatra and AC/DC, it spectacularly cut out to leave us in silence and darkness. The projector seemed to have been thoroughly fried, but after about ten minutes the harassed techies managed to get things going, and it's a tribute to the enthusiasm and good nature of the crowd that very few people left during the hiatus.