EARTHTONZ, just got bigger
Earthtonz - Queenstown Music Festival Gets Bigger!
EARTHTONZ, the biggest NYE party in the South Island this year, just got bigger!
In addition
to main stage acts Tommy Lee (Motely Crue)
& DJ Aero, The Crystal
Method, British break beat musicians The
Freestylers, hip hop legend DJ Muggs
(Cypress Hill), Dutch trio Kraak & Smaak,
AK 1200/DJ Dara/MC Messinian (Planet of the Drums), Boombox,
Ana Sia, Heatbox and NZ’s own
Minuit, a second stage at Queenstown’s
Gibbston Valley, named The Edge Bass Camp,
will run especially for Earthtonz Festival campers from 2pm
to midnight on 30 December.
Featured at The Edge Bass Camp
will be Hamilton musicians Knights of the Dub Table
Soundsystem, Dunedin groups Hunting
Bears and Simple Thieves,
Invercargill band Rhythmonyx and
Queenstown based acts The Station Agents,
Dub Side, Getto Blaster and The
Fletcherz. DJ’s and MC’s will keep the party
going by cutting up the music breaks courtesy of The
Edge FM.
Earthtonz
American partner Dan Allen said the Kiwi
bands bring another dimension to the event.
“Extending the festival to include more NZ acts has
provided both the opportunity for local bands to play
alongside some of the world’s best electronica, drum n
bass, dub step, hip-hop, progressive house and techno
groups, while showcasing NZ’s rising talent in the pop,
rock, reggae, funk and soul genre ” said
Allen
Headlining Edge Bass
Camp, KNIGHTS OF THE DUB TABLE
Soundsystem, combine elements of reggae,
drum n bass, hip-hop and rock into their own fusion of dub
flavoured music. With powerful high-energy live
performances, the Knights have played alongside
Katchafire, dDub, Rhombus, Cornerstone Roots,
Opensouls, Optimus Gryme, Tiki Taane, the Black Seeds
and popular Australian dub outfits The
Versionaries and Groundation. In
2010 they released their debut Tronic EP containing
four original tracks and five remixes from Tiki
Taane, Optimus Gryme, AUM, Undertow and their very
own Mr Samy'samson (distributed by
Border Music). Their debut album, titled Way of
the DUB, is out now. Don’t miss them at
Earthtonz!
www.knightsofthedubtable.com
HUNTING BEARS are a Dunedin-based
alternative rock band featuring Maddy Parkins-Craig (vocals
& rhythm guitar), Josh Simons (guitar), Michelle Anderton
(bass) and Sam Holdom (drums).
Blending the sound of
groups such as Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Pixies and
PJ Harvey, Hunting Bears present a high energy set
of driving rhythms and songs that explore the fragility of
human connections.
http://www.facebook.com/huntingbearsnz?v=info
Dunedin rock band SIMPLE THIEVES
formed at Wakatipu high school and consist of Ross
Stewart (vocals & rhythm guitar), Shaun Coombe (bass &
vocals), Connor Williams (lead guitar) and David Carter
(drums). They describe themselves as being focused on
writing and performing fierce original rock songs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Simple-Thieves/100114543430698
RHYTHMONYX have been described by
the Southland Times as “a fresh, vibrant and
obesely phat mash of Kiwi grooves, Pasifika beats, reggae
chops, old-school British ska, hip-hop and electronica:
impossible to define, wonderful to behold.”
With a
sound somewhere between dub, dance and hip hop, this
Invercargill based 8-piece have an
infectious live show which has seen them share the stage
with acts like Shapeshifter, Fat Freddy's Drop, Tiki
Tane, Katchafire, Opshop, Hollie Smith, Ladi6 and
international legends The Original Wailers
and Dragon. http://www.youtubecom/watch?v=wZW55PmQ9sU
Quoting a wide variety of influences
ranging from the The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led
Zeppelin, Tool, Hendrix, Slash and Robert
Plant, THE STATION AGENTS - Alex Fraser (vocals),
Molly Devine (vocals), Connor Williams (guitar), Michael
(guitar), Jack Devine (bass) and Yuki Brown (drums) - are a
progressive pop/rock act who have supported acts like
Steriogram, Dr Hook and Creedence
Clearwater Revisited and recently performed at the
opening of the Queenstown Winter Festival.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Station-Agents/171923762835029?v=info
DUB SIDE are
a six piece dub band from Queenstown and
feature Michael Eden (guitar), Simon Petre (drums), Hertzog
Burger (vocals & keyboards), Matt Bradford (bass), Tom Gray
(trumpet) and Jonty Norton (saxophone).
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dub-Side/176076635784654?v=info
Queenstown’s GHETTO
BLASTER is a reggae roots/funk/soul group.
Vocalist/guitarist Peti Seiuli (Jahfire Southland),
drummer Jeremy Wynyard (Jahfire Southland), Matt Eddy
(Zuvuya) and bassist Mark Godinho have played at the
Rock for the Miners (2011) concert, the Winter
Games Awards Ceremony and are about to release their
debut album titled Black Art.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ghetto-Blaster-QT/190557630961473?sk=wall
Performing alternative indie, rock
n roll and psychedelic music, THE FLETCHERZ
won high praise from Mike Chunn
(Split Enz) when he heard them. Mike said “I
loved the originality. I loved the variety. I loved the
enthusiasm. I loved the intensity!”
The Queenstown
group describe their sound as being “If Led Zeppelin
and Pink Floyd had a baby. And Nirvana and The Strokes had a
baby. And then those two baby’s made a baby which made a
baby with Radiohead, I guess that's what we want to sound
like!”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fletcherz/155282214494751
http://www.youtubecom/watch?v=8Gvdnm9ij8w
Be
in quick to secure your place with 10,000 of your closest
friends!
Earthtonz New Year’s Eve
festival
December 30 – January 1st
2012, Gibbston Valley,
Queenstown
TICKETS
www.ticketek.co.nz /
0800-Ticketek PLUS iSites in Queenstown, Wanaka &
Cromwell
Festival Concert ticket: $149
Two Day Camping
Pass: $15
Festival Parking Pass: FREE
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