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FOOTMAHI 2025 Release Party
2025-05-30 20:00 - 2025-05-31 01:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | FLUX, 270 St Asaph Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
It’s an absolute privilege that we want to announce that the crew at Flux have invited The Big Fresh Collective to host a bi-monthly residency for the rest of the 2025 – kicking things off with the much anticipated FOOTMAHI 2025 RELEASE PARTY 🚨

Closing off New Zealand Music Month in style on Friday the 30th of May – Big Fresh heavyweights Liam K. Swiggs/Young Gho$t/Caru make there way back down to the mighty city of Ōtautahi with an extra special guest joining them for the mayhem – THE ONE AND ONLY DONK DOBBO

– W/ 103 Soundsytem on the levels you know what it is tickets on Flicket get em when you can 🎫

We’ve got Chole gracing the decks on the BFC big stage for the very first time after making her debut on Footmahi 2025 earlier this month with her Baby got back remix 🏄‍♂️

Alongside that we’ve got TWO of the cities heaviest hitters; the return of the best NRL halves pairing since Shaun Johnson and James Maloney – Jay Luv & Bahns are back and are BADDER than ever after both sharing amazing tracks on this years instalment of the mahi 🖤

To top it all off two of the cities biggest up and comers who caught the ears of head coach K. Swiggs over the past 12 months; Bellsy & DWULLWUD will be holding it down for the next generation 💊

THIS IS A SHOW FOR THE AGES – GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! 🎫

Echo Chamber - CHCH Covers Night
2025-05-31 19:00 - 23:00 | darkroom, 336 St. Asaph St, Christchurch, 8011, New Zealand
Join us for the 5th annual Ōtautahi Christchurch Echo Chamber – a night celebrating our music community as local bands take to the stage to cover songs by other local bands!
Featuring a stacked line up of artists from a mix of genres covering songs from historic and currently active Chch bands! This year’s line up is:
Anand
Big John’s House
Bin Day
The Bohemian Bunglenuts
Charlotte Crone
Electric Starfi
Goodbye Starlet
The Mulls
Velveteen
Sat May 31st
Darkroom, 336 St Asaph St
Doors 7pm
First band 7:15pm sharp
$20 tickets available from UTR or $30 on the door on the night if not sold out prior
R18. R.O.A.R.
The history of NZ Circle Jerks (which have inspired our Echo Chamber event) dates back to 2005, when a bunch of Kirikiriroa/Hamilton bands – pissed off at the lack of acknowledgment of their city’s music scene from the likes of NZ Music Month – decided to host their own event in celebration of the Hamilton music community. The event saw local bands playing covers of songs by other local bands, and it quickly became an annual tradition, with 10 Hamilton Circle Jerks held over the years. Ōtepoti/Dunedin and Ōtautahi/Christchurch have also gone on to start their own version of the event as well

UNLEASHED: The Drop Before the Beat
2025-05-31 19:00 - 21:30 | Hide, 172 St Asaph Street, Christchurch, 8011, NZ
A Women-Only Nightclub Gathering for Release, Voice & Movement
Lights off so the self-conscious can go.

Before the party starts… we gather.
Before the music hits… we drop into ourselves.

This is not a wellness workshop.
This is not a lecture on chakras.
This is something new. Something needed.

We’re taking over a nightclub, before the crowd comes in, for an unfiltered evening of:

💥 Grounded, no-fluff meditation for real mental release
🗣 Vocal expression, scream, sigh, shout, sound (your way)
🔥 Embodied movement that doesn’t ask you to look good, just feel real

This is a space to release pressure, not perform.
To move emotion, not explain it.
To feel anger, frustration, power, sadness, whatever is alive in you.
We call it a drop, not just for the music, but for what we’re letting fall.

This is for the woman who’s held it in too long.
For the woman who’s tired of being palatable.
For the woman ready to feel what she feels without apology.

Not anti-man. Not anti-anything. Just pro-you.

👁‍🗨 Lights off.
🖤 Masks off.
Come raw. Come curious. Come ready.

UNLEASHED.
You won’t be the same.

Swallow the Rat - Face Unpopular EP Release Tour
2025-05-31 20:30 - 23:00 | Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St, Christchurch, 8011, New Zealand
Auckland post-punk outfit Swallow the Rat return with a new EP called Face Unpopular. Featuring 3 new songs including a title track which has been doing the rounds on student radio, and a blistering remix by A Place To Bury Strangers. Otautahi/Christchurch imprint Leather Jacket Records are releasing an accompanying 7 Inch on May 23.
Catch em on tour through May/June with a new live configuration and host of special guests to be announced.
Fri 23 May – Auckland @ Whammy
Sat 31 May – Christchurch @ Space Academy
Fri 6June – Palmerston North @ Snails
Sat 7 June – Wellington @ Moon
Sat 14 June – Hamilton @ Last Place
Fri 20 June – Mount Maunganui @ Palace Tavern
Sat 21 June – Napier @ Paisley Stage
Tickets from Undertherader
