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March 12, 2010

POOL PARTY MOVED TO MEOW CAFE EDWARD STREET

By Good as Gold

We have an amazingly extreme contact at the MET service who has informed us that this crazy ass %&^*(^&*( storm is not going to let up anytime soon!  SOOOOOOO no not despair,,, spray protect your heels and head on down to MEOW CAFE at #9 EDWARD STREET  just past GOOD AS GOLD across from Watuzi […]

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March 5, 2010

GAG Pool Party 2010…

By Good as Gold

Its that time again!  Friday 12th March, 7pm is the annual Good As Gold Pool Party.  Its where we get to say a BIG thanks to all our friends and customers for supporting us and keeping the GAG dream alive.  Its also when we find out who’s king of the Open freestyle, breath holding, mega […]

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January 28, 2010

Apple VS. AC/DC…

By Good as Gold

Holy shit what an exciting day, AC /DC are playing in town tonight and Apple released the iPad.  Things could only get better if a zombie Bon Scott rose from the dead and magically gave us all Apple Shares with laser beams from his eyes…

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January 7, 2010

Yeasayer EPICness

By Courtney Sanders

Yeasayer released All Hour Cymbals last year and defined that whole African-chic by way of Brooklyn, New York thing that was going down, and kind of led one to believe that, although they hadn’t quite nailed the perfect Eastern inspired pop song this time round, great things were to come. 
And here they are:
Lead single, ‘Ambling Alp’ off […]

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December 27, 2009

Bring on the sun…

By Ruben

Sorry for the lack of posts on the blog over the last week, but the shop was mental busy over Christmas and now most of the GAG crew are on holiday missions all over NZ.
Ash and myself are just heading off to Gisborne with a big crew to chill out in the sun, catch some […]

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November 6, 2009

Box Wars at Happy….

By Sean Buchanan

If you have a love of crafts that involve alcohol, cardboard, cellotape and fighting then get on down to Happy Bar on the corner of Vivian and Tory St Wellington this Saturday night.  They are having Box Wars, which involves making a suit of armor and weapons out of cardboard and having jousts.  May the […]

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September 9, 2009

FIFTH BIRTHDAY (AND 2ND) ART EXHIBITION…

By Sean Buchanan

GOOD AS GOLD 2nd & 5th BIRTHDAY EXHIBITION
In 2005 an over ambitious Ruben Bryant thought it would be a good idea to put on a G.A.G. exhibition featuring all the artists that had exhibited on the shop walls.
The artists brief consisted of doing whatever they wanted with the theme ‘TWO’ to a piece of either green or […]

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August 6, 2009

Tires of Fire…

By Doug J

Ok everyone out there with a bike and some mad skid skills. This Saturday the 8th August The Tire of Fire is on. This a basically the best and longest skid on you bike wins. So get down there at 2pm this Saturday and do some skids. Located at the walkway between Te Papa and […]

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July 21, 2009

Winnebago Man

By Andy S

On Sunday the film Winnebago Man showed at the film festival, seeing I work Sundays I missed it. The film is based on the out-takes from an old Winnebago commercial involving a man, Jack Rebney, possibly one of the angriest men in the world. Anyway this clip below started it all and was one of the […]

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July 15, 2009

Sale Sale Sale…

By Sean Buchanan

As posted previously, this Sat the 18th at 311 Willis Street (By the Motorway entrance) beginning at 10am (Shake off the hangover) Good As Gold will be selling OLD STOCK at over 50% off (CASH ONLY).  There will be crazy bargains and other miscellaneous pieces of crap and corruption to be swooped up.  If you […]

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