Secret Sounds & Live Nation Present Cavetown
With guest spookyghostboy
DEBUT NEW ZEALAND SHOW 2020
AUCKLAND, NZ (Sep 30, 2019) – In an announcement bound to provoke scenes of jubilation amongst his flock of devoted
followers, Robin Skinner – the 20-year-old UK singer / songwriter who performs under the alias of CAVETOWN – will make
his first visit to Australia and New Zealand in early 2020.
Locking in an all-ages show in Auckland on January 19, Skinner will be drawing on a deep catalogue of confessional
indie-pop mini masterpieces recorded alone in his bedroom and delivered directly to his millions of YouTube subscribers.
Tickets go on sale at 9am Thursday, October 3.
My Live Nation members may also secure tickets first during the pre-sale beginning 9am Wednesday October 2 until 8am
Thursday October 3.
Support at these very special shows will come from Nashville-based artist spookyghostboy – a fellow bedroom artist and
kindred spirit who will arrive fresh from sharing the stage with CAVETOWN across Europe earlier this year.
An artist devoted to maintaining a direct connection with his fans, CAVETOWN’s track ‘Lemon Boy’ (taken from his full
length album of the same name) has amassed nearly 10 million YouTube views, allowing the super prolific Skinner to bask
in a breakout that has been building since he began posting on his own channel back in 2013.
The son of a professional flautist and Cambridge University’s music director, he was always destined to enter the world
of music, but it wasn’t until Skinner began to share his heart- rending tales of love and loss that he really began to
grow into himself as an artist and performer.
“I didn’t want to write and play music just to make people feel better, that wasn’t my intention,” Skinner has said about his decision to begin sharing his music. “It was more to make myself feel better, initially but the fact that, along the way, my music has helped people is
really cool.”
With this growing confidence in his craft and audience, he began self-releasing his work online, including 2015’s cavetown and 2016’s 16/04/16 as well as covers of likeminded artists such as twenty one pilots and Ed Sheeran.
These clips, which display both Skinner’s ability to devastate the listener with just his voice and an acoustic guitar
or ukulele, as well as his fearless personality, became appointment viewing for his developing fanbase, with views
regularly flying past 10 million.
“I speak about very genuine things and very personal things that I personally find hard to say,” Skinner explains. “That’s why I write a song about it. I think people relate to that”
The breakout success of Lemon Boy was no surprise then, with its quirky video clip also breaking streaming records and
paving the way for CAVETOWN to sign with prestigious Sire Records (also home to Tegan and Sara).
Arriving in Australia and New Zealand on the back of the release of his latest mixtape Animal Kingdom, CAVETOWN’s
tireless imagination and unbreakable, authentic bond with his fans will undoubtedly result in a spectacular night for
both audience and artist.
CAVETOWN
With guest spookyghostboy
THE TUNING FORK, AUCKLAND
SUNDAY JANUARY 19
TICKETS ON SALE 9AM THURSDAY OCTOBER 3
Live Nation pre-sale: 9am Wednesday October 2 until 8am Thursday October 3
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