Listen In Festival Announced Ft. A$AP Rocky, Skrillex, Skepta, Lil Skies

Auckland's Spark Arena will be playing host to a cavalcade of hip hop and electronic superstars for the upcoming Listen In festival this September. The iconic artists lined up for the one-day event include US hip hop titan A$AP Rocky, EDM producer Skrillex, UK grime artist Skepta, and Pennsylvania rapper Lil Skies. The show is an offshoot of Australian dance and hip hop festival Listen Out, known around the globe for their carefully curated lineups. This is the first time the festival has extended to our shores, scope the details below...

Listen In 2018
Feat... A$AP Rocky, Skrillex, Skepta, Lil Skies
Friday 28th September - Spark Arena, Auckland
Pre-sales available from from 12.00pm, Thursday 5th July

Here's A$AP Rocky and Skepta's huge hit 'Praise The Lord (Da Shine)'...

Press release:

A handpicked line-up of Hip Hop and Electronic music’s biggest acts will take the stage for one night only at Auckland’s Spark Arena, Friday September 28 for LISTEN IN presented by Fuzzy and Live Nation.

Listen In is the offshoot of the annual Australian dance and hip-hop festival Listen Out which sold out all its Australian dates across the last two years. Listen Out is well known and respected for their curated line ups spanning the hottest electronic music and Hip Hop of the moment and this will be the first time this event has bought its line up to NZ shores.

A$AP ROCKY

With over 300 million plays on Spotify for his track ‘F**kin’ Problems’ and his third album on its way, A$AP Rocky sets to return with a banging set.

His albums ‘Long. Live. A$AP’ + ‘At long. Last. A$AP’ both debuted at no.1 on the Billboard – featuring L$D, Wild for the Night and Goldie. Latest tracks include A$AP Forever is just a start to what A$AP Rocky will bring.

LIL SKIES

This 19-year-old is heading to Listen In as part of his debut Australasian tour. Since age 12, he was recording and writing music which led him to opening for Fetty Wap. Ranking in the top 400 most listened artists on Spotify, LIL SKIES has millions of plays on his tracks ‘Nowadays ft. Landon Cuba’, ‘Red Roses ft. Landon Cuba’ and ‘Lust’.

SKEPTA

One of the most influential grime artists of the decade, SKEPTA will be gracing the Listen In stage this September. The accomplished UK artist, MC, producer and record-label owner has received attention from the likes of Drake and Kanye West after his 2015 track ‘Shutdown’ placed in the Top 40 and they watched him perform at the BRIT Awards. Get to know some of his top tracks: ‘That’s Not Me’, ‘Man’ and ‘It Aint Safe’.

SKRILLEX

The 8-time Grammy Award winning artist, SKRILLEX, is back with brand new music. Recently remixing, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘HUMBLE.’ and collaborating with What So Not and KLP for his latest single, ‘Goh’, Listen Out cannot wait for the legend himself, to step out onto the stage. As one of the biggest names in music, it’s hard to not know his past hits ‘Bangarang’, ‘First of the Year(Equinox)’ and ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’.

Skrillex joined forces with Diplo, debuting Jack Ü in 2013, creating tracks lsike ‘To Ü’, ‘Take Ü’ and one of the biggest tracks of 2015; ‘Where are Ü Now’.