The NORTH ISLAND LOVE TOUR brings together three of Auckland's most indefinably genre-bending bands: SPACE CREEPS, OUTRUN THE BUFFALO and MICE ON STILTS, for a tour of the North Island, spanning 8 locations.
Napier
The Cabana
8:00pm, $5
SPACE CREEPS:
Clint Eastwood went to the beach and got high with Jeff Buckley and the Mashmakhan band. On the way home they bumped into Jean-Michel Basquiat listening to Portishead in mono. They all went to Barbados and made a film. Space Creeps composed the soundtrack.
Space Creeps have been billed on more than one occasion as a musical hybrid that city-dwellers arrive at by way of trip hop, dub, film soundtracks and too much marijuana. However, with a new lineup that includes the addition of a third guitarist and an exploration into spacier sonic territory and dizzying psychedelia, the band should not be judged solely 'pon the back of their latest downbeat release Love Notes From Stoned Island.
www.spacecreeps.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/spacecreeps
OUTRUN THE BUFFALO:
Journey into the outer depths of space and time with Outrun the Buffalo. The Auckland underground masters of ethereal psychedelic rock will dissolve your inner being into their grooves and take you through a soundscape of space-age, fuzz driven musical mysteries. Dizzy yet' You will be.
www.outrunthebuffalo.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/outrunthebuffalo
MICE ON STILTS:
Get monged and reflect with Auckland 7-piece group Mice on Stilts as they take you on a poetic, nostalgic journey through experimental rock dripping with free jazz and gypsy folk. Ancient shipwrecks swell into crushing walls of oceanic fury, lapping on the doorsteps of medieval bouncy castles; shattered souls awaken to fornicate with tortured microchips; sealed dreams rupture their gates to chase the rapids of time.
www.miceonstilts.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/miceonstilts
With support from Alec Withers of Devil's Elbow.
