Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Debut NZ Shows Announced

UK-born / LA-based electronic dance artist and DJ Orlando Higginbottom is bringing his Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED) project down under for his first ever New Zealand headline dates, performing at Wellington's San Fran and Auckland's The Powerstation this coming May. Scooping up critical plaudits when his debut album Trouble dropped in 2012, TEED's second studio long player When The Lights Go was launched a decade later last year — bracketing a multitude of EPs, remixes, compilations and collaborations with such fellow heavyweights as Bonobo (earning a Grammy nomination in 2020 for their track 'Heartbreak'), Porter Robinson, The Knocks, Bronson and Dillon Francis. An absolute treat for local club enthusiasts and part-time paleontologists alike, don't miss TEED touring his acclaimed new record live at the following shows, brought to you by I OH YOU and Frontier Touring...

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - When The Lights Go Live Tour

Friday 5th May - San Fran, Wellington
Saturday 6th May - The Powerstation, Auckland

Tickets on sale now via ticketmaster.co.nz (all shows 18+)

Check out the official video for 'Never Seen You Dance', featured on Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' new album When The Lights Go...

Here's Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' Grammy-nominated 2020 collab 'Heartbreak'...

Hit play on TEED's 2010 breakout hit 'Garden'...

Press release:

I OH YOU and Frontier Touring are delighted to announce the return of British born, LA based, Grammy nominated, electronic DJ, artist, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs aka real name Orlando Higginbottom on his When The Lights Go Australia & New Zealand Live Tour for May 2023.

Kicking off in New Zealand, the When The Lights Go tour will play San Fran, Wellington on Friday 5 May before Powerstation, Auckland on Saturday 6 May. The tour then heads to Australia playing The Triffid, Brisbane on Tuesday 9 May, then onto 170 Russell, Melbourne on Thursday 11 May, Manning Bar, Sydney on Friday 12 May before a final show at The Rosemount Hotel, Perth on Saturday 13 May. These are Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ first Australian shows in over 10 years and the first time ever playing New Zealand!

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs remains an artist who stridently criss-crosses the worlds of live electronic and club-oriented production. Having graced us with his very first single ‘Garden’ in 2010, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has since released an applauded trail of EPs, singles, collaborations including two full length studio albums ‘Trouble’ (2012) with a ten-year gap before the visual, symbolic, emotive and highly anticipated 17-track ‘When the Lights Go’ (2022) - out now via Nice Age / I OH YOU / Liberator Music, here. The acclaimed album features the singles, ‘Crosswalk’, ‘Blood In The Snow’, ‘The Sleeper’, ‘Forever’, ‘Persuasion’ and ‘Never Seen You Dance’.

“Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has finally come through with the goods through the release of his long-awaited second full-length album ‘When the Lights Go’, a seventeen-track journey filled with stunning soundscapes and infectious grooves that transport you away from the mundane nature of the real world and into a new dimension of captivation and wonder.” -AcidStag

“When the Lights Go sees Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs making thrilling dance pop on his own terms.” 8/10 The Line of Best Fit

On top of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs acclaimed solo projects, he has collaborated with some of the best in the electronic field, most notably his Grammy-nominated hit, ‘Heartbreak’ with Bonobo and together again on ‘6000Ft.’. Other collabs include The Knocks ‘Walking On Water (feat. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)’, Porter Robinson ‘Unfold’, Bronson ‘DAWN (feat. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)’ and Dillon Francis ‘Without You’.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has also stamped his personal signature sound remixing with and for Confidence Man, Hayden James, Calibre, Lastlings, Jake Shears to name just a few.

“As the night went on, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs had full control of the room, exploding confetti into the crowd and unleashing blow-up dinosaur toys. Higginbottom played some of his older, instrumental tracks and devolved his set into more of a DJ showcase....Trouble remains one of my favourite albums of the year and Higgenbottom completely owned the room.” - Redefine mag

“This was honestly one of the best gigs I’ve been to in a long time and one of my highlights from this year. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur’s latest album is so textured and filled with so many tiny precise details that I’ll now be listening to it regularly for at least the remainder of the year.” - Skiddle

Come into the world of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and his electrifying live shows this May!