Music

With a fabulous 2024 festival theme of FEASTY, we literally and metaphorically feasted upon festival fashion, music, sculpture, food, fun and festivities galore, at Splore Festival!  Here are some of my highlights of Splore Festival, 2024, in pictures. Wearing seventies homemade flared jumpsuit secondhand, a lilac Glassons crop top, pink hair, and Ariel mermaid top…

Splore Festival releases entertainment programme across nine zones  Listening Lounge debates hot topics of our times The timetable for Splore’s nine zones of entertainment is released today and tickets are still available to the three day festival.  The shores of Tāpapakanga are ready to welcome the audience to the party of the summer on one of the…

The Splore Festival programme is polished to perfection and the resplendent Tāpapakanga Regional Park is ready to receive thousands of Splorers, welcomed onto the whenua by Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Whanaunga with a powhiri on 23 February. Festival Director John Minty says the stage is set for Splore’s eclectic blend of programming. “Splore’s uniqueness comes from its…

The weather looked dubious but the sun shone down on the Saturday as we wove our way down the Eastern highways of Auckland from Manurewa and Clevedon to Tapapakanga Regional Park for the iconic Splore festival. The festival is known worldwide and its long-awaited return post-covid closures had over 10,000 eager attendees sign up (and…

How to tune into SPLORE 2023 from home and get amongst the action with Splore Festival’s first live stream… Splore will be live-streaming selected acts on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February 2023. Splore Festival invites you to participate from the comfort of your lounge room – wherever you are on Saturday night and Sunday…

Splore & Fashion Revolution present: Costume Revolution Splore is on a mission to reduce festival costume waste. Typically costume attire is purchased cheaply, worn once, and then trashed – entering the waste system. To bring awareness to the issue, Splore has partnered with New Zealand non-profit organisation Fashion Revolution NZ to present ‘Costume Revolution’, a…

LIVE at the Museum: Reb Fountain and LOU’ANA MONDAY 31 MAY GRAND FOYER, AUCKLAND MUSEUM Heavyweights of Aotearoa’s homegrown music scene came together for an evening of musical magic when the voices of Reb Fountain and LOU’ANA fill the Grand Foyer in two mesmerising performances, from noir folk to funk and soul. Reb FountainReb Fountain…

For New Year’s Eve 2020 I headed up to beautiful Ascension Winery in Matakana to ring in the new year with music, fireworks, dancing and wine, at the fabulous HIGHLIFE New Year’s party. It was just incredible. With gates open from 3pm until 1am, it was good to arrive early and make a day –…