On the Money: on the cover of Rolling Stone, thanks Team Ilam, you can sleep on it and more

On the Money: on the cover of Rolling Stone, thanks Team Ilam, you can sleep on it and more
Perennial Wellington favourites Shihad have played the San Fran many times. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
The great rock ‘n’ roll swindleOn the Money occasionally regales some of our younger colleagues with stories of Wellington in the early 2000s, when the nightlife was teeming, and venues tried to out-quirk each other by being hipsterish before it was cool. Among the favoured venues was Indigo, later to become the San Francisco Bath House, upstairs on upper Cuba Street – a place where you could watch the Datsuns swing from the rafters or bump into the Phoenix Foundation’s Luke Buda on the balcony. No need to...

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