Laneway 2015 Announces Pre-Party With Iceage

The organisers of Laneway 2015 have revealed that Iceage, a late addition to the festival's bill, will be performing at a pre-party in Auckland the night before the main event. The Danish post-punk quartet will be bringing with them a wealth of material they have developed since forming in 2008, including tracks from their highly-regarded third album Plowing In The Field Of Love, which was released last October through Matador Records. The pre-party is strictly doorsales only and will be supported by local outfit Trust Punks. Here are the details...

Laneway Pre-Party with Iceage and Trust Punks
Sunday 25th January, Kings Arms, Auckland

Entry is $15 with a ticket to Laneway Festival 2015 or $35 without  - doorsales only.

And here's the video for 'The Lord's Favourite'...

PRESS RELEASE:

Laneway 2015 is set to be bigger and bolder than ever before, and the party starts the night before the festival at Auckland’s Kings Arms on Sunday 25 January, with an inevitably crushing performance from much-buzzed Danish goth-punk-hardcore rockers Iceage.

Laneway 2015 brings the formidable swagger of these dashing young Danes into Kiwi arms for the first time. Barely beyond their teens, Iceage sharpened the teeth of their menacing sound on the Copenhagen hardcore scene. Emerging with the heavily anxious debut New Brigade, the band took an unexpected left-turn with the emotional sophomore record You’re Nothing. Now, with 2014’s rollocking and romantic Plowing in the Field of Love, Iceage have confounded expectations once again. Recorded in a dewy forest over a few weeks and more than a few drinks, the songs elegantly disintegrate into a collection of unruly love songs rich with both promise and regret.

Tickets to see this much-touted band are an outrageously modest $35. And, because Laneway loves music-lovers, we’re offering the super-special price of $15 on the door for Laneway ticket holders. That’s about the price of a cheap bottle of plonk, and seeing this band perform songs from their beautifully crafted sonic realm will leave you with a hangover you’ll never forget. In the words of Consequence of Sound, ‘it will carve a hole somewhere deep inside you’.

The Iceage stage will be warmed by Auckland’s most youthful and abrasive, Trust Punks, and sere. Influenced by Japanese pysch, science fiction and waterboarding, sere fortify the spirit and promise tinnitus. sere formed late last year and include musicians who have previously appeared in Mean Girls, Sex Pest, Xuri Xruz & Yolanda.

But it’s first in, first served, with absolutely no pre-sales -- so rush to the watering hole, and get ready to dive in deep with Laneway 2015.

UnderTheRadar Presents:

LANEWAY PRE-PARTY FEATURING ICEAGE
With Trust Punks and sere
Sunday 25 January, Kings Arms, Auckland
$35 for general public, $15 for Laneway ticket holders
Door sales only