Wildbirds and Peacedrums Headed to Auckland This Month with Fire!

Acclaimed duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums are headed to Auckland later this month along with psychedelic/free jazz group Fire!.

The two Swedish acts will perform at a series of events put on by the Audio Foundation appropriately dubbed the Fire! Festival. The festival will take place over three nights and will see Fire! - saxophonist Mats Gustafsson,  Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin and Miriam Wallentin as a special guest - headline the first two nights. The final night will then see husband and wife Andreas Werliin and Miriam Wallentin perform as Wildbirds and Peacedrums. Each night will also host additional international and local acts including Swiss experimental duo Hans Koch and Thomas Peter, Shab Orchestra, Jane Austin and more.

The festival will then lead into the annual Bush Tucka event which will also feature many of the acts performing at the Fire! Festival but in a more improvised manner. Here are the details!

FIRE! FESTIVAL 

NIGHT ONE
Thursday 21st January, Audio Foundation, Auckland
Featurting: Fire! with Mariam Wallentin (Sweden)
Shab Orchestra
Thistle Group

NIGHT TWO
Friday 22nd January, The Wine Cellar, Auckland
Featuring:
Fire! with Mariam Wallentin 
Hans Koch / Thomas Peter 
Drorgan
Bonehead / Joe McCallum

NIGHT THREE
Saturday 23rd January, Audio Foundation, Auckland 
Featuring:
Wildbirds and Peacedrums 
Johan Berthling (solo)
Hans Koch / Thomas Peter 
Mats Gustafsson / Phill Dryson / Ivan Mrsic
Jane Austen

Bush Tucka 3
Sunday 24th January, Waiatarua Community Hall, Auckland
Featuring: Mats Gustafsson / Jeff Henderson
Johan Berthling / Joe McCallum
Andreas Werliin / Hermione Johnson
Mariam Wallentin / Andrew McLeod / Phil Dadson
Olympus (Stefan Neville / Kraus)
Leila Adu
Tom Rodwell

Tickets for the Fire! Festival are on sale now from HERE at UTR and capacity is super limited.

Here's the clip for 'My Heart' from Wildbirds and Peacedrums second album The Snake.

...and here's Fire! track 'Can I Hold You For a Minute?' from their EP You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago.

Press Release:

Fire! Festival
21-24 Jan 2016, Auckland, Aotearoa – New Zealand

The Audio Foundation, Feeding Habits and Bush Tucka present a one-off festival of extraordinary music featuring performers from Sweden, Switzerland, New York and New Zealand.

Highlights include Swedish psychedelic/free jazz unit Fire! featuring titan of saxophone Mats Gustafsson and Swedish alt-pop star Mariam Wallentin, Wildbirds and Peacedrums – a Swedish duo who have worked with Bjork, Ben Frost, Deerhoof and Hildur Gudnadottir, Swiss experimental duo Hans Koch and Thomas Peter and New York based composer, singer- songwriter Leila Adu…plus a raftload of great local acts.

Thurs 21 Jan 2016
Audio Foundation, 4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland
www.audiofoundation.org.nz
8pm
Fire! with Mariam Wallentin (Sweden)
Shab Orchestra
Thistle Group

Fri 22 Jan 2016
The Wine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade, Karangahape Rd, Auckland
8pm
Fire! with Mariam Wallentin (Sweden)
Hans Koch / Thomas Peter (Switzerland)
Drorgan
Bonehead / Joe McCallum

Sat 23 Jan 2016
Audio Foundation
8pm
Wildbirds and Peacedrums (Sweden)
Johan Berthling solo (Sweden)
Hans Koch / Thomas Peter (Switzerland)
Mats Gustafsson / Phill Dryson / Ivan Mrsic
Jane Austen

Sun 24 Jan 2016
Waiatarua Community Hall, Waiatarua
Mats Gustafsson / Jeff Henderson
Johan Berthling / Joe McCallum
Andreas Werliin / Hermione Johnson
Mariam Wallentin / Andrew McLeod / Phil Dadson
Olympus (Stefan Neville / Kraus)
Leila Adu
Tom Rodwell