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SUMMARY:Alphabethead\, Displeasure\, Birdparty & Desire Path at Lyttelton Coffee Co.
DESCRIPTION:Please join Alphabethead\, Displeasure and Birdparty this December as they traverse Aotearoa on a journey to present genre-expanding music that seeks to stimulate the brain\, and move the body! These three acts differ widely from one another but are unified in friendship and the shared pursuit of life-affirming\, body-moving combinations of rhythms\, bass and formidable sound design. \nAlphabethead is celebrating the release of “My Name Is David”\, his debut album of electronic music on Sunreturn. Displeasure release “Billionaire Death Drive”\, their second album of anarcho-dance-punk and Birdparty\, having already played some incredible festival shows and gigged in China\, tour Aotearoa for the very first time. \nALPHABETHEAD finds himself adrift in the musical cosmos\, somewhere between the constellations of Hip Hop\, Electronica and Experimental Rock. As a teenager he won the New Zealand DMC DJ Championship and this title sent him performing across the globe. Over the next twenty years he’d go on to make six albums as Alphabethead\, five albums as one third of cult genre-shredders All Seeing Hand and two records as half of the psychedelic Hip Hop duo Bad Taste alongside Young Gho$t. He also contributed production or turntable scratching to Home Brew\, Tourettes\, Death & The Maiden\, The Etymologists (featuring Richard Nunns and David Long (The Mutton Birds) and The Village Of The Idiots (a modern jazz ensemble led by Anthony Donaldson (The Front Lawn\, Primitive Art Group)). His musical prowess and singular approach to playing the turntable like a musical instrument has led to tours through Aotearoa\, Australia\, UK and China and performances at festivals like WOMAD\, Splore\, Laneway and Camp A Low Hum. \nNow signed to Sunreturn\, Alphabethead’s new music is explorative and driving electronica stemming from sound design and synthesis with touches of turntablism and vinyl sampling. \nhttps://alphabethead.bandcamp.com/ \nDISPLEASURE is the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. Their music deals with the swirling mess of scaremongering bullshit rearing its increasingly ugly head in political discourse in Aotearoa. In the year 2025\, things have reached the point where disgruntled science-denying farmers are teaming up with perverse public toilet-obsessed transphobes\, raging anti-vaxxxers and evangelical megachurch despots in a horrific whirlpool of shit ideas manipulated by white supremacists and alt-right trolls – with all of their delusional social media outrage pumped by cynical algorithms to swell the profits of hypercapitalist billionaires and their colonial space-fantasies. Displeasure highlight the absurdity of this dystopian trajectory\, and stresses the urgency of solidarity in dismantling the extractive capitalist core driving the whole enterprise. \nhttps://unsanitarynapkin.bandcamp.com/ \nBIRDPARTY is the unlikely merger of extreme metal musician William Barrett (Heresiarch) and ambient/electronic dance producer Emma Bernard (Ludus). Constructed with sample-based textures\, trippy vocals and drums\, the duo build scintillating sci-fi soundtracks for the adventurous listener. Undefinable and unmissable\, BIRDPARTY’s live show explores the realms between ambience and uproar — delivering a cathartically noisy spread of cinematic\, semi-industrial goods & services. \nSince emerging in 2023\, BIRDPARTY have established themselves as one of the most exciting live acts in New Zealand\, captivating crowds at festivals such as Twisted Frequency\, Newtown Festival\, Camp A Low Hum and Welcome to Nowhere\, as well as the City Gallery of Wellington.\nhttps://birdpartynz.bandcamp.com/ \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/alphabethead-displeasure-birdparty-desire-path-at-lyttelton-coffee-co/
LOCATION:Lyttelton Coffee Company.\, Christchurch\, NZ
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Music
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SUMMARY:Nadia Reid Enter Now Brightness Tour
DESCRIPTION:This December acclaimed songwriter Nadia Reid journeys back to New Zealand and Australia in celebration of Enter Now Brightness; her critically lauded fourth album which was released on Chrysalis in February 2025. \nDecember 5 / Christchurch / The Piano \nPresale 10am (NZST)\, Wednesday 16th April\nGeneral on sale 10am (NZST)\, Friday 18th April\nRegister for presale at banishedmusic.com/subscribe \nThe Manchester-based expatriate New Zealander is known for her ruminative and well-crafted folk-inflected songwriting\, and with Enter Now Brightness she presents a record of poise and great beauty\, the sound of a cellular shift\, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/nadia-reid-enter-now-brightness-tour/
LOCATION:The Piano\, 56 Armagh St\, Christchurch Central\, Christchurch\, 8011\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:Weezier 2025
DESCRIPTION:It’s weezier time again. This year there will be songs from the Blue\, Red\, Green\, Black\, Make Believe\, Pinkerton\, Every Thing Will Be Alright in the End and Maladroit albums\, oh yes\, and at last a song from the White albummm!\nSo freshen up on all those songs and head on down to the darkroom\, it’s going to be pretty neat.\nStraight into it\, no warmup band required. \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/weezier-2025/
LOCATION:darkroom\, 336 St. Asaph St\, Christchurch\, 8011\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:Polson - Let Them All Dance - EP Release Party
DESCRIPTION:After months of building momentum in the ’03 music scene\, POLSON are finally ready to unveil some new tracks. Known for their experimental\, highly varied\, and high-octane sets\, POLSON are sure to have your ears wanting more. Joining them are upcoming talents from the ’03 underground\, Gracie Snow and BWD. \nGracie Snow blends dreamy vocals with warm\, off-kilter electronic productions\, crafting songs that feel intimate yet expansive and one-of-a-kind. \nBWD make sounds\, maybe not pleasant ones\, but certainly memorable. Expect distorted organ drum-machine samples\, rough-cut vocals\, and more! \nSee them all at Space Academy for a night that pushes the limits of your senses. \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/polson-let-them-all-dance-ep-release-party/
LOCATION:Space Academy\, 371 St Asaph St\, Christchurch\, 8011\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:Medal / Kaiwhatu
DESCRIPTION:This Friday Dec 5 sees MEDaL team up with good friends KAIWHATU to make their yearly excursion out of the cave to entertain the masses. \nFormed six years ago MEDaL have released two vinyl albums\, gigged sporadically and largely maintained an underground presence in the bowels of Lyttelton. This may change\, but probably not… \nKAIWHATU \, who also enjoy exploring the Space/Kraut Rock side of the universe\, describe themselves :\nKaiwhatu — to weave\, to lead\, to guide — is a collective of four musicians exchanging musical influences from past and present. Their creative process begins organically\, with ideas sparked by any of the four: Dylan on guitar\, Taipua on bass\, and John on drums and percussion & Rico contributing to vocals. From there\, they weave through ideas playfully\, developing textures that shift between the unworldly and the familiar. The result is music that feels both spontaneous and deeply connected — a living tapestry of sound. \nVinyl will be available at the door\nReplica 2019\nSequela 2021 \nMEDaL : John Billows – Bass (Renderers\, Dark Matter)\, Dave Mulcahy – Guitar (Superette\, JPSE )\, & Mark Whyte – Drums (Into the Void) \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/medal-kaiwhatu/
LOCATION:Wunderbar\, 14 Canterbury Street\, Lyttelton\, 8082\, New Zealand
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