January 2024
Just Janie
Folk singer-songwriter Just Janie is coming to Ōtautahi/ Christchurch to perform her single release show 'Love Letter to Myself' at Space Academy! Come along for a night of dreamy music and musings. Drawing inspiration from the folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies, Janie’s music can be described as captivating and tender. Her lyrics offer an intimately raw window into her experiences of love and loss and what it means to write and perform her music. Her first…
Find out more »Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo NZ Tour
Strange News Touring and Meow are pleased to announce a nationwide tour showcasing the exceptional duets of Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo. The tour will see them begin in the brooding harbour of Lyttleton, before travelling up to the capital city’s finest venue, enjoying a Small Hall Session in a mystery location in the Hawkes Bay, and hitting a cabaret bar tucked away in Whitianga before completing the adventure in Auckland. When Mexican singer and filmmaker Amanda Acevedo and founding…
Find out more »February 2024
Monotones
Come see us play at the Darkroom on February the 1st with local legends Marsha and new comers Palo Alto
Find out more »Party Of Special Things To Do
Party of special things features Guylaine Cosseron, an animalistic singer exploring a 'total voice' where all components of vocal sound are part of musical expression, and Diemo Schwarz who is based in Paris and an active contributor both to improvised music practice using computers, and to emergent research on concatenative synthesis, a technique where tiny particles of sound are re-assembled algorithmically into new sonic realities. Their duo folds exploratory voice and fragmented electro-acoustics in strange communions. Performance featuring: Guylaine Cosseron…
Find out more »Russian Circles
Underground legends RUSSIAN CIRCLES have announced their return to New Zealand after 9 years, touring in support of their new album GNOSIS. Known for their combination of epic walls of sound with technical dexterity and driving rhythms, their intense compositions have earned them a loyal cult following that has seen them tour extensively worldwide since forming in the windy city of Chicago in 2004. Across the span of their previous seven studio albums, the Chicago-based post-metal group have traversed a…
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