End of the Road shuffle line-up
Hot Chip, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Jonny Greenwood, John Grant and more replace overseas acts
published: Wed 5th May 2021
daily capacity: 14000
The line-up for
Larmer Tree Gardens, in Tollard Royal, nr Salisbury, from
Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th September 2021 has had to be revised since it was announced in December to reflect those acts including Pixies, Bright Eyes, Aldous Harding, Perfume Genius, and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, who are not now able to attend.
The changes to line-up see the addition of
Organisers state:
We worked really hard to bring you our 2020 line-up in 2021, but the world had other ideas. Much has changed since we announced our 2021 line-up in December and some of our pals from across the pond are no longer able to make it. Determined to bring you the best party this summer, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work curating an exciting new line-up. Feast your eyes on our new additions for 2021 and already
NZ Music Month: New Zealand s best live music venues to visit
3 May, 2021 11:39 PM
8 minutes to read
Crowded house: Pack into these 10 live music venues in Aotearoa. Photo / Ateed, Supplied
NZ Herald
By: Poppy Tohill
Rock stadium or intimate nightspot, New Zealand should be proud of its many and varied music venues, writes
Poppy Tohill
As our small country punches above its weight with creative talent, we similarly do so with places to discover and enjoy such talent. From the top of the north to the bottom of the south, from stunning to grungy and intimate to colossal - here are 10 live music venues in Aotearoa that are definitely not to be missed. Time your next short break around a performance in one of them and celebrate the freedom we have in New Zealand to be in the midst of a crowd.
The 2021 Art of Music Collection, to raise funds for Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (Noro) has been announced for Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales for Saturday 21 July 2021.
40 years ago WORT was still a young radio station, with studios on
Winnebago Street and the frequency at
89.7 FM. Back then every Saturday, sandwiched between
Jah Tony and
Reasonable Facsimile” played the newest of the new on his show
New Needles. His program captured the zeitgeist of a special time when “new music”
was New Music: experimental, revolutionary, and certainly a departure from much of the past – a far cry from today, when everything under the sun has already been done.
In a very extra-special episode of
Friday On My Mind, Reasonable Facsimile returns for one night only to bring us some of the magic that was New Needles. Listen live on the airwaves or through the live stream, or check out the show on the WORT archive for up to two weeks.
Poi E, the New Zealand music community rallied behind the Pātea Māori Club. Their legacy award came 19 years after the death of co-composer Māui Dalvanius Prime. Ngoi Pēwhairangi, who also wrote the song, died in 1985. The Pātea Māori Club has continued to perform, and did so at the Taites. The rōpū, including some members who recorded
Poi E in 1984, shifted the mood of the event when they were welcomed on stage through a standing ovation. The respect for this group and waiata was clear.
Poi E has reached number one in the New Zealand music charts during three separate decades, and musicians such as Troy Kingi paid tribute to the fact it achieved normalcy for te reo Māori during an era where the language was often not welcome.