The full lineup for Spring City Music Festival has been announced, to be held on the lush grounds of the Auckland Domain on Saturday, November 26 2022. Joining GROOVE ARMADA at the exciting one day festival will be performances from American rapper, singer and house producer CHANNEL TRES, DJ Set from UK electro-synthpop act HOT CHIP, Kiwi indie legend LADYHAWKE, music industry icon and party DJ ZANE LOWE, alongside George FM host, disco and house DJ SIN and Auckland rock/pop band COAST ARCADE.
The festival is down to final release tickets, with the popular Spring City VIP area already sold out. Full festival map and schedule to be released shortly.
CHANNEL TRES
In just a few short years, Compton's Channel Tres has achieved something few artists even set out to do: He created a lane for himself. House music may be experiencing a mainstream resurgence, with Drake and Beyonce performing their takes on the genre, but Channel Tres is a proven leader in the space—he’s ahead of the curve.
For Channel, music is about reconnecting with his own history, whether it’s in his lyrics, or through the influences and musical history he uncovers in his productions. “My dad is from Chicago," explains Channel of how he first arrived at dance music. "House music was created there, and over time the music got lost in translation. So, when I studied it and I saw that it was African-American people and Latinos and the LGBTQ community I got really inspired by it.” As a producer, Channel has a preternatural ability to absorb his musical influences and create something new.
HOT CHIP (DJ SET)
Hot Chip return in 2022 with Freakout/Release – the continuation of what, at this point, seems like an impossible run for the British electronic pop legends. Their eighth album features new singles 'Down' and 'Eleanor', and captures that giddy feeling of self-expression, a letting out of the tension conjured up by the world at large. “These songs take anxiety and trepidation and try to refocus those feelings towards positive release,” Doyle says. With their witty, affecting songwriting and the immediately recognizable vocals of Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, Hot Chip combine indie and dance in innovative ways. On early albums such as 2006's Mercury Prize-nominated The Warning, the band evoked the cleverness of Talking Heads and the poignancy of the Pet Shop Boys. With time, Hot Chip's music broadened and deepened, spawning the tender musings on commitment on 2010's One Life Stand as well as the poly-genre mashups of 2015's Why Make Sense? With only a few hit singles to their name (chief among them the Grammy-nominated "Ready for the Floor" from 2008's Made in the Dark), Hot Chip nevertheless earned a following that allowed them to headline festivals, as reflected by the rave-tinged anthems of 2019's A Bath Full of Ecstasy.
LADYHAWKE
As Ladyhawke, Phillippa "Pip" Brown crafts larger-than-life songs that made her one of the leading lights of the 1980s synth pop revival of the late 2000s and well into the 21st century. However, she's just as inspired by and as by or , and Brown's musical literacy gave her award-winning 2008 debut Ladyhawke a wide appeal as well as critical acclaim. Where many of her contemporaries focus on slick surfaces, Ladyhawke draws upon real-life emotions and situations that added depth to her songs, whether on the grunge and glam-rock augmented angst of 2012's Anxiety or the therapeutic grooves of 2021's Time Flies.
ZANE LOWE
A successful international DJ in his own right, Zane Lowe has played sets at festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury, Creamfields, Bestival and Rhythm and Vines. He has toured with artists including Skrillex, The Prodigy, Kasabian and The Weeknd and opened shows for both Muse and Foo Fighters at their concerts at Wembley Stadium. In 2015, Zane Lowe was head-hunted by Apple to be the Creative Director for their new world-wide music staton, Apple Music 1.
SIN
The co-host of George FM Drive and high-energy DJ has channelled her creativity and self-expression into a career based on music and dance; a natural extrovert and "big muso," she feels most at home when she is performing; sharing her passion with others and being heard, seen and felt.
COAST ARCADE
Coast Arcade is an emerging Indie Pop Rock band from Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand. They describe their sound as Indie Pop Rock with subtle punk and surf twists. This combination of genres crafts their energetic and fun summer sound. Formed in high school in early 2021, Coast Arcade are regulars in the NZ music scene and the band plays to a strong following at many of Auckland's most iconic live music venues. Bella Bavin (Rafflyn) fronts the band, on lead guitar and vocals, Thom Boynton, drums/backing vocals, and brothers Chris and Nate Tims on Rhythm Guitar and Bass, respectively. The future's looking good for Coast Arcade; with many local shows under their belt and a solid fan base getting behind them, they have built up an energetic performance with lots of vibrant melodies, tasty riffs, and so much more.
GROOVE ARMADA
For over two decades GROOVE ARMADA has been established as one of the planet's best loved and biggest selling dance acts. Since debuting in 1997, they’ve proved that it’s possible to bravely explore a multitude of sounds while achieving critical and commercial success. It’s a trait that is apparent within a selection of their best loved songs. From the dancehall dub of ‘Superstylin’ to the crossover pop of ‘Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)’ and from the dancefloor-igniting ‘I See You Baby’ to the woozy sunset vibes of ‘At The River’, Groove Armada have consistently and uncompromisingly followed their own vision.
What the duo - Tom Findlay and Andy Cato - have achieved must’ve seemed unthinkable when they first met at university back in the nineties: three UK Top 10 albums; three Grammy nominations; a BRIT nomination; and a succession of hit singles that are still being discovered by new fans to this day. Despite having formed a quarter-of-a-century before streaming exploded, they still command the attention of almost two million monthly listeners at Spotify. They’ve also collaborated with or remixed countless high profile artists, notably Madonna, Paul Simon, Fatboy Slim, Calvin Harris, Neneh Cherry and Bryan Ferry.
Fans of Groove Armada can expect to experience the live show including the full band.
ABOUT SPRING CITY
Spring City music festival is new one day music festival held on November 26 2022, at the iconic Auckland Domain. The first Spring City Music Festival was held in 2019 and featured Two Door Cinema Club, Flight Facilities, Crooked Colours. The festival features a massive main stage production, Spring City VIP zone, some of Auckland’s top food vendors spread across the lush Auckland domain grounds. Sponsors include Westpac Apple Pay, Genoapay, Pals, Steinlager, Zeffer, Red Bull, GH Mumm and George FM.
TICKETING INFORMATION
The festival is down to final release tickets, with Spring City VIP tickets sold out.
