MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS + SOME NEWS!
SOUTHERN AMP 2 NEWSLETTER # 10 – FURTHER LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENTS + A FEW BITS OF NEWS!!!
Just 6 weeks to go!! Start planning for your biggest live music day out in the South Island… Well crew, we’re finalising playing schedules, getting the venue mapped out and sorting out all the fab things that are going to be happening at Southern Amp 2 so we can get that all those details up on the Southern Amp website for you to download in the next couple of weeks. But true to our word, we have some more acts to announce!
THE CHECKS - won NZ breakthrough artist of the year at the NZ Music Awards in May 2005. REM heard one song and asked the band to support them here. Noel Gallagher then chose them to support Oasis on their Australian tour the same year. Not long after, the Editor of the UK’s famous NME magazine saw them perform and booked them on the spot for the NME New Music tour of the UK. Having bagged a record deal during their short stint in England, the band relocated to London in 2006 and got straight down to recording their debut album released this week. The Checks are a spit n’ sawdust rock n’ roll band bursting at the seams with pumping rock songs to send you bare-chested and wild! 2007 has seen the band tour the UK 5 times. THE CHECKS will perform on the main stage along with SHIHAD, THE BLACK SEEDS, EVERMORE, THIRSTY MERC, ATLAS, THE VEILS, OPSHOP, dDUB, DUKES and THE VALVES. Catching their live performance at Southern Amp is going to be a treat you won’t want to miss! THREE MORE ACTS HAVE ALSO BEEN CONFIRMED FOR THE CHRISTCHURCH MUSIC STAGE…
PUMPKINHEAD – Reforming especially for Southern Amp 2 this iconic Christchurch rock band with be playing their first full show since 1996, almost exactly 11 years ago to the day! Pumpkinhead’s 1995 album “Sloth” may still be the loudest piece of music to come out of New Zealand! PUMPKINHEAD reinvented the two minute-something song with their grunge-strained, high crunch factor pop. They toured nationally, supported and played with Shihad, Supergroove, opened for Faith No More on both their NZ tours, supported Fugazi, Primus and played the BIG DAY OUT in 1995 and 1996! For a slice of pure NZ rock history, DO NOT miss this monster of Christchurch music-past at Southern Amp 2.
NEIL ROBINSON – three completely unsupervised teenagers, the band was formed in honour of a national treasure of the same name in 2006. Neil Robinson combine melt-in-the-mouth pop tunes with wild, almost inappropriate, energy and a live show that's bound to want to make your girlfriend dump you!
BANG! BANG! ECHE! – Winners of the 2007 RDU FM Round-Up band competition this weekend past at the famous Dux de Lux in Christchurch earned themselves the unparalleled distinction of opening the first ever Christchurch Music Stage at Southern Amp 2! Previous SmokefreeRockquest finalists Bang! Bang! Eche! are 2 girls, 4 guys, lots of colour, playing a mix of house, post punk new wave & J-pop. Think of Flying Lizards, B52’s and you’re not far off… So the full & final Christchurch Music Industry Stage line-up is – PUMPKINHEAD, GASOLINE COWBOY, 4MANBOB, HEAVY JONES, CHARLIE ASH, BAND THEFT AUTO, NEIL ROBINSON, TAINTED, ED MUZIK, THE TIGER TONES, FLYING SOLO, THE UNDERCURRENTS, THE ENRIGHT HOUSE, RAGAMUFFIN CHILDREN, MUSTARD, JOHN WHITE, ANDY GIBSON, THE EASTERN, TRILLION BAND and BANG! BANG! ECHE!
Other news for this week…
NORTH CANTERBURY BUS - Tina Fletcher who runs the Rangiora Rock Shop has kindly offered to organise a bus to and from the event. They did something similar for Guns ‘n Roses in July so for anyone interested in this service please contact Tina directly – phone 03 3137980, Email – rangiorarockshop@hotmail.com
SPECIAL VISA CARD OFFER – On the Ticketek website there is a special VIP competition offer for VISA card holders who buy tickets for Southern Amp, have a look and pass the link around to your mates so they can enter as well – Link is: http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=VISAENTE05
CANTERBURY UNI STUDENTS SPECIAL OFFER – For any Canterbury students, The Junction ticketing outlet at UCSA is offering a FREE S-AMP 2005 T-shirt offer with every Southern Amp 2 ticket bought during October. Stocks are limited so if you are a Canty student and haven’t got your ticket yet, October is a good month to do it.
So we can now officially say “Southern Amp 2 – 12 Hours of Live Music, OVER 40 Bands & DJs on 3 separate Stages!!” – It’s going to be huge, Be There!!
