LANEWAY PRESENTS
TUESDAY 1ST FEBURARY 2011 – WELLINGTON
WHAT AWESOME NEWS!
Tuesday 1st February 2011 Wellington music fans will experience a taste of the music festival that has become known for its diverse,
forward-thinking line-ups with interesting, surprising bands.
After performing the day before at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Auckland, a finely selected group of bands and
musicians from the Laneway line-up will head to the Wellington Town Hall. Punters unable to make it north to the full festival will be guaranteed a special evening of musical discovery and
appreciation.
Which fine selection of bands?
LADYHAWKE - YEASAYER - DEERHUNTER
BEACH HOUSE - BLONDE REDHEAD
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFITTI
Laneway Festival favours cutting edge talent over mainstream success, and has consistently delivered compelling,
boundary-pushing acts to discerning audiences since its inception in 2004. Next year's special Wellington event will
continue the tradition.
Sydney and Melbourne Laneway Festivals have already sold out for next year’s event, and Auckland is looking to follow suit. Auckland sold out in its very first year last year and is
certainly one of the hottest tickets for summer!
Doors will open at the Wellington Town Hall at the earlier time of 5pm. First band on 5.45pm.
Don’t miss out!
YEASAYER
Everyone in favour of a good time say ‘YEA…SAYER’. Our favourite prog-pop proponents return to get the party started with wares from the remarkable Odd Blood and its
equally inventive predecessor All Hour Cymbals. If tracks like ‘Ambling Alp’ and ‘O.N.E.’ don’t make you all kinds of
happy, then we can’t be your friend. Having sold out all the shows on their recent visit, YEASAYER are A-Listed.
LADYHAWKE
LADYHAWKE describes herself as a lady who loves guitars, loves synths, loves making noise and pressing buttons. The
Masterton-born, UK-based singer carried off NZ Music Tui awards for Single of the Year, Album of the Year, International
Achievement, Best Female Solo Artist, Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Dance/Electronica Album last year after
the release of her debut album. The album had huge success internationally being certified gold in the UK, Australia as
well as New Zealand and reached number 16 on the UK album chart. This year Pip Brown aka LADYHAWKE has been based in New Zealand writing, but has continued to wow audience and critics alike being nominated for the
International Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards in May this year.
DEERHUNTER
Mixing woozy ambience, hypnotic Krautrock, art-damaged squall and classic, 60s-inspired pop into one wholly arresting
package, Athens, Georgia four-piece DEERHUNTER have quickly cemented themselves as one of the most compelling and combustible bands of their era. Led by the magnetic
presence of frontman Bradford Cox, DEERHUNTER ’s live show has become the stuff of legend – an utterly immersive, noisy, gauzy, ecstatic, propulsive thing that the
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O describes as ‘a religious experience’. DEERHUNTER return to New Zealand on the back of their fourth LP, the self-produced Halcyon Digest, an album of lush, elegant,
nostalgic neo-psychedelia that manages to keep pushing forward even as it’s looking back.
BLONDE REDHEAD
Over seventeen years, eight albums and countless eps, alt-rock titans BLONDE REDHEAD have secured their place in the rock’n’roll firmament as one of the most consistently inventive and evocative acts of
the past two decades. After beginning life as a No Wave inspired outfit, over the years the trio of Kazu Makino and twin
brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace have pared back the squall while pushing their sound to ever more expansive places, as
evidenced by their wall-of-sound, break-out cut from a few years ago, 23. Their latest LP, the lush electro-dream pop
outing Penny Sparkle, is pure narcotic summer bliss, the latest evolution of a band never afraid to try their hand.
BEACH HOUSE
A BEACH HOUSE primer for you. FACT: Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally are not a couple. FACT: They are brilliant. FACT:
Their third release (and first for Sub-Pop), Teen Dream, is classic, dreamy, timeless pop. At once exultant and
melancholic, Teen Dream sets Legrand’s breathy vocals atop a rich, sparkling sonic bed of organ and guitar, the result
that rare kind of music for which the word magical truly applies. Live, the duo weaves a spell that you have to see to
believe. Have a look at these photos of the band on stage recently at Radio City Hall.
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
Reclusive pop surrealist ARIEL PINK comes out of his shell and across the Pacific toting his full band, HAUNTED GRAFFITI After a decade putting out a succession of woozy, tripped out lo-fi pop LPs for Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks imprint,
this year Pink stepped out of the bedroom armed with Before Today, his thoroughly awesome hi-fi 4AD debut and our album
of the year. A gloriously damaged, genre-hopping record, Before Today is as schizo as it is excellent, filled to the
brim with immediate, surprising hooks and a cracked charm.
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER 9AM FROM
www.ticketek.co.nz 0800 TICKET (842 538)
ENDS