HTRK (AUS) Auckland Headline Show Announced

Already revealed to be on the impeccably curated bill for Ōhinehou's Port Noise 2026 festival, Naarm sonic spellbinders HTRK have announced an accompanying Aotearoa headline event at Pitt Street Methodist Church in Tāmaki Makaurau on 20th February. Bandmates Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang co-founded HTRK in 2003 with bassist Sean Stewart, who passed in 2010. Their brand new collection String of Hearts (Songs of HTRK) is "the first full-length collection of HTRK covers and remixes from friends and contemporaries", featuring Sharon Van Etten, Loraine James, Stephen O'Malley, Laura Jean, Liars, and more. Do not snooze on this very special summer date with HTRK — brought to you by Strange News and 100% Good...

HTRK (AUS)

Friday 20th February - Pitt Street Methodist Church , Auckland
Saturday 21st February - Port Noise Festival, Lyttelton*

Auckland tickets on sale HERE via UTR
*Port Noise 2026 tickets available HERE

Experience HTRK's 2023 single 'Sunlight Feels Like Bee Stings'...

Previous:

Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK [‘Hate Rock']. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It’s music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.

HTRK’s albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia) , Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight ), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.