August 2025
OH MY GOTH! Dark Music Club Night
Sanctuary Events present OH MY GOTH! Dark Music Club Night DJs Regress & 59 to 1 will take you on a journey celebrating the Dark 80s featuring Goth Rock, Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Industrial, Death Rock, Future Pop, Cold Wave, Synth Pop +more Expect to hear music from a selection of these artists and more; ALIEN SEX FIEND, AND ONE, BAUHAUS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, CHRISTIAN DEATH, CLAN OF XYMOX, COCTEAU TWINS, COVENANT, DEAD CAN DANCE, DEATH CULT, DEPECHE MODE, ECHO AND THE…
Find out more »An Absolutely Free Gogorama Bonanza
Join us for a night of rock, boogie, groove? Space? Music? Christ like beings? We might just have everything a growing exaltant non-time redundant entity needs. Transmit yourself forth. Evaporate into nothing. Into the very finite and impossible beyond. Forth. Forth. Forth. All on Saturday the 23rd of August. NO COSMIC FIAT. In fact non-legal-tender may be offered to people at the door. Money that will be legible in the past year of 2025 C.C. So come WATCH people that…
Find out more »Goya & EUG tour – Home Turf Album Release
Three still-youthful gentlemen arrive abruptly to their third decade of life. The path they had taken now obscured, they look only ahead, ruminatively, writing indelible this moment of angst, of triumph, of sadness, and exuberant joy. Lower back pain in musical terms, sensible shoes are a must. Ten years on and still not deaf, Pōneke post-punks Goya are celebrating a decade of noise with the release of their new album 'Home Turf' (out 8 August). They'll be taking it on…
Find out more »DIRTY FILTHY HOUSE MUSIC
Where the beats are deep, the lyrics are filthy, and the dancefloor gets dirty. You find Dirty, Filthy, House Music. Get ready for a night of pure, unapologetic HOUSE — the kind that grabs you by the hips and doesn’t let go. Basslines that bounceLyrics that drip heatSweaty, sexy, late-night energyA dancefloor for the bold, the free, and the passionate If you like your house music deep, dirty, and dripping with attitude — this is your night. From classic vocal…
Find out more »Nick Gaffaney Quartet
Born in Christchurch, Nick Gaffaney attended the relatively early days of Ara Music Arts back when it occupied the magnificent (but leaky and drafty) St Asaph Street building in the mid 1990's. Some of his fondest memories are of cycling home through the late night Christchurch smog following a day's practice at what was affectionately known as "tech" by students of Nick's vintage. Since leaving Christchurch in 1998, Nick has travelled a wide and varied path through his career, making…
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