Welcome to the blogiverse inhabited by me, Koori boy Mick Finn, reporting randomly about the fun and games of being the visual half of an audio-visual arts-electronica band known as Kuki Koori.

A short bio - we formed back in 2017 as a creative test-concept between myself and Iain Gordon, whose real night-job is keyboardist with Fat Freddy's Drop, the legendary New Zealand band. Our aim is to create visuals and music on the fly during performances; trying to create little stories as we go. We also like having an opportunity to put Maori and Koori themes in the mix reflecting our dual identities in Western and indigenous worlds. We've had some great nights at a range of festivals and venues and as we get more and more gigs we're starting to find the limits of absolute creativity at each performance. More on that later!

Today sees the heat coming on for an upcoming gig in Wellington (New Zealand) which is going to be short and sweet, and hopefully deadly. Once it gets dark at 9pm we have 20 - 30 mins to perform, a lot shorter than usual, before the park is closed and noise restrictions at Wellington Botanic Gardens kick in. It will a frenetic stretch to create a character in this short time, but I just need to get some of the crazy ideas floating around in my head onto a sketchpad and then practise some of them on the drawing tablet formerly known as the ipad.

We're probably calling this one the Space Race, with a following gig on the Wellington Waterfront being Time Flies, followed by a big 2 hour set at Cubadupa Street Festival which we're calling Space-Time at the End of the Lane.

Though we've just been offered a Sunday afternoon gig in between these at Dowse Art Gallery which will be fun if it all comes together. Edit...the date doesn’t work for us so not this year.

Here's the first sketches, and then another batch overlain on an astro-pic from this week.  Which gives me ideas for  a separate art series for my small astro-photography gallery sales.