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SUMMARY:Wunderbar Slam
DESCRIPTION:WUNDERBAR SLAM \n28TH AUGUST 2026 \nThis is the most staked lineup I’ve ever arranged for an event\, this one is gonna be a GREAT night featuring many different genres and styles. See all the acts below… \nLEWIS PARKE – Lewis Parke is an indie alt pop act with a bite\, blending new wave influence with a modern indie sound. Living in the dark\, the mysterious\, the unsaid words that lay in between a conversation. Lush vocals layered on intricate guitar with no other than drummer Ralph Hall playing precise percussion & dynamic live bass sampling. Subtle yet bold and best enjoyed live. \nKENRING – are hard hitting\, powerful and a musical force to be reckoned with. Powered by the influence of artists such as Alice in Chains\, Black Sabbath and The Smashing Pumpkins – mixing it with the psychedelic\, psycho flare of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. @kenring \nTHIRD JUNCTION – are a chch based 4 piece indie\, pop rock band\, need no introduction – @thirdjunctionband \nGECKO – crazy live electronica original music – @gecko \nWULFIE – known for creating emotional songwriting with cinematic electronic production and he also just released a brand new single ‘Paradise’. Indie electronic pop/synth pop – @wulfie \nTickets are available via Under The Radar\, such a cool event\, first release tickers as per are cheapest. For me it’s a long time since I’ve played Wunderbar so very excited to run it back. \nFRIDAY 28TH AUGUST — DOORS 8PM \nand the name ? Well since its so cold the wunderbar slam will be when we slip on the icey stairs after the gig. But only after ofc. 😉 \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/wunderbar-slam/
LOCATION:Wunderbar Lyttelton\, 19 London St\, Lyttelton\, 8082\, NZ
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:The Broken Heartbreakers - Album Release Tour
DESCRIPTION:*Just announced\, Violet French & The Woolston Operatic Society will be joining in support at the Space Academy show!* \nŌtepoti’s longstanding indie folk favourites The Broken Heartbreakers have emerged from the mists to announce their brand new album\, as well as a full nationwide tour this September. Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving marks the band’s fifth album and debut on Nadia Reid’s boutique Slow Time Records label\, set to be unveiled on July 17th. \nFULL BAND ALBUM RELEASE TOUR – SEPTEMBER 2026 \nFRI 4 SEPT – GRAINSTORE GALLERY\, OAMARU\nSAT 5 SEPT – SPACE ACADEMY\, CHRISTCHURCH\nTHURS 10 SEPT – WHAMMY\, AUCKLAND\nFRI 11 SEPT – ARTWORKS THEATRE\, WAIHEKE\nSAT 12 SEPT – VOGELMORN BOWLING CLUB\, WELLINGTON\nSAT 19 SEPT – HANOVER HALL\, DUNEDIN \nWith the ballad of The Broken Heartbreakers harking back all the way to 2002\, it’s clear that the band understand that the finer things in life take time. Their critically adored album How We Got To Now arrived over a decade ago in 2015\, with a smattering of non-album singles and live appearances over the years keeping the band in the hearts and minds of their ever-loyal fanbase. \nNow\, after four years of writing and self-producing in their North East Valley\, Dunedin home studio\, founding members John Howell and Rachel Bailey return with The Broken Heartbreakers’ most fully realised record yet. Featuring exquisite cover art from Dudley Benson\, and mixed by Aotearoa’s master of noise Nick Roughan (Skeptics\, Dimmer) Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving expands the band’s world brilliantly. \n“Rachel and John are such gifted writers\, observers\, singers\, and players\,” says Slow Time Records founder Nadia Reid. “These songs are the stuff of life – life on life’s terms. They sound like Dunedin\, and Ireland\, like K’Road. I’m so grateful that this record is joining Slow Time’s stable of records.” \nMusic critic Graham Reid once described the band as having “a sound which draws equally on the Left Banke\, the Everly Brothers\, Brian Wilson\, Beatles\, alt-country harmonies and the Anglofolk tradition”. The Broken Heartbreakers’ music mixes the bleak with the beautiful\, drawing on deep roots of folk and classic pop melody\, but with a defiant\, subversive twist and more than a touch of modern electricity. \nHowell and Bailey’s new songs find them more defiant than ever\, proudly redefining what a band known for having a wistful folky element can or should represent. Whilst The Broken Heartbreakers certainly enjoy plumbing “the broken hearted depths of personal despair and loss”\, they also gleefully admit that their songs exist to take “well aimed barbs at the socioeconomic wasteland of the neoliberal era”. \nWith that said\, it only seemed fitting for the band to come out swinging against the state of things with the album’s softly raging first single. Fuck You\, Dangerous Age\, bravely risking their press releases being caught by spam filters. Follow-up single What Is For You was a more dreamy and encouraging affair\, inspired by a traditional Gaelic saying. Brand new single and opening track on the album How Long Is Too Long is a wintry song that will linger in your lungs for weeks. \nTo hear The Broken Heartbreakers on record is a special thing indeed\, but to witness them live with a full band is a rare pleasure. This September\, fans can hear these very special songs live in all their glory\, with six shows spanning the motu. As well as the band’s core pair\, the full touring band will feature drummer Paul McLennan-Kissel (who also performed powerfully and beautifully on the record)\, Ayumu Kobayashi on bass\, and a mystery figure on keys and synths. \nDon’t miss catching The Broken Heartbreakers on the Imagine If We Could Just Keep Driving album release tour; these magnificent stars may not align again for some time. \n“beautiful\, world-class music” – Victor Billot\, Audioculture \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/the-broken-heartbreakers-album-release-tour/
LOCATION:Space Academy\, 371 St Asaph St\, Christchurch\, 8011\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Gig,Release
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SUMMARY:Hannah Everingham Big Surprise Album Tour
DESCRIPTION:BIG SURPRISE!!!!! ARE YOU COMING TO THE SHOW???? \nHannah Everingham tours New Zealand in celebration of her new album Big Surprise\, out August 7th 2026. Featuring the songs ‘Judi Dench’ & ‘Want You’ – Big Surprise\, Hannah Everingham’s third album\, holds a magic in its name. How could a surprise be big or small?  Seemingly defining and defying its own contradictions\, here is an artist who sings of crabs\, earthquakes\, shopping in New York\, Judi Dench and a lover who gifts flowers by lifting them\, roots and all\, from the earth. \nGarnering attention since the release of her debut album Between Bodies in 2022\, Hannah Everingham has been described as an artist beamed out of a timeless sonic realm – a seasoned navigator between shadow and jubilation. She has performed across New Zealand\, in Australia & New York. This tour includes her first NZ shows since the release of her acclaimed 2024 album Siempre Tiene Flores\, and will be a celebration of her new album across the country with a full band show in Lyttelton and duo shows in Te Ika-a-Māui. \nBig Surprise\, recorded in full takes between the former home of New Zealand children’s writer Margaret Mahy in Governor’s Bay & in Lyttelton captures a similar playfulness – an enchantment for children and adults alike\, a leaning towards the supernatural mystery. Love as\, and is\, the real force that leaps outside the body\, just as this music pours out of the record. Hopefulness in the island of the music\, the lightness of living within a deep blue darkness. This is\, like an island\, a world approaching its own boundary. The big surprise is life itself\, the road that unwinds only as you move. Yet these shifting melodies over thick rhythm give Big Surprise a fluidity\, much like seaweed that binds itself to the volcanic peninsula from where the album was made. Both bound and freely floating\, both made of the bright sky and the blue sea\, it is true\, just as Everingham sings\, that – \nin the morning\nI will wake up\nfree \nTickets for Whammy\, Loons & Pearl Diver shows are available via undertheradar\nTickets for Meow are available via flicket \n
URL:https://soundsgood.guide/gig/hannah-everingham-big-surprise-album-tour/
LOCATION:LOONS\, 16 CANTERBURY ST\, CHRUSTCHURCH\, LYTTELTON\, 8082\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:MACHINARIUM VOL. 2
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LOCATION:Wunderbar Lyttelton\, 19 London St\, Lyttelton\, 8082\, NZ
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