Little Simz + Phony Ppl To Play New Zealand Splendour In The Grass Sideshows

Along with today's announcement UK math-rockers Foals are playing a New Zealand sideshow to their upcoming appearance at Australia's mega Splendour In The Grass Festival, more local sideshows have been announced – including upcoming headline performances by English MC Little Simz and Brooklyn nine piece progressive soul maestros Phony Ppl at Auckland's Tuning Fork in July. Little Simz is touring off the back of her hugely acclaimed third studio album Grey Area which dropped in early March, while Phony Ppl are playing here with their multi-faceted 2018 album mō’zā-ik. in tow. Cop the info for both events below...

Little Simz
Wednesday 24th July - The Tuning Fork, Auckland

Phony Ppl
Friday 26th July - The Tuning Fork, Auckland

Presales for both events available from 9.00am, Monday 15th April

Watch Little Simz perform an electrifying live version of 'Venom' (from Grey Area) for COLORS...

Check out Phony Ppl's recent NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert...

Press release:

For one special sideshow in Auckland, English MC LITTLE SIMZ will be showing audiences exactly what all the fuss is about. Her third studio record GREY Area was released last year and has whipped up raves worldwide, with Pitchfork calling it “wondrous” and the NME proclaiming it the best rap record of 2018.

Brooklyn’s PHONY PPL offer a round-the-world adventure on a multi-genre flight. Children of musicians with a world of sound at their fingertips from birth, this 9-piece hydra take all they’ve learned, pop it in a blender and rejoice in what is produced. Hopping off the Splendour train for shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, Phony Ppl are riding high on the release of their latest album mō’zā-ik, which was released last year and catapulted them into the hearts of critics and fans alike.