Listen to Greatsouth's New Single 'It's Getting Hotti'

Launched a week and bit ago, this frigid winter Wednesday is the perfect time to warm up your ears with 'It's getting hotti', a new waiata from Greatsouth aka Papakura innovator Payton Taplin (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa). Swirling together dream-pop ambience, taonga pūoro reverberations and radiant indie-rock jangle, 'It's getting hotti' is a gently-paced song of resistance, embodying "everyday people, whānau and the local community still fighting the good fight."

Playing a launch party for his imminent new album Hellhole of The Pacific at Big Fan with friends on 21st August — doubling as a fundraiser for his showcase performances at Bigsound in Brisbane — Greatsouth is also on the all-star bill for Going Global festival the following week. Experience 'It's Getting Hotti' and grip the jam-packed Going Global festival lineup details below...

"Grounded in kaitiakitanga, this waiata reflects on protecting the whenua and recognising indigenous rights and tino rangatiratanga. It personifies Te Manukanuka o Hoturoa, the Manukau Harbour, as a whaea figure, asking listeners to slow down, look out over te taiao and care for the land and sea that care for us.

At the same time, It's getting hotti speaks to the tension between wanting to live by those values and the day- to-day pressure of making ends meet, feeding whānau and keeping up with work, community and responsibility.

The 'resistance' in the song is not distant or abstract. It is everyday people, whānau and the local community still fighting the good fight.

Ka whawhai tonu matou."

2026 GOING GLOBAL FESTIVAL - SHOWCASING ARTISTS
Thursday 27th August & Friday 28th August
Whammy and Double Whammy, Auckland (three stages)
Doors open 6:30pm doors / End time 11:30pm approx

Ardon England – electronic, hyperpop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Awning – alt rock (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
CAITLIN – alternative pop (Ōtautahi / Christchurch)
Dropper – alt rock (Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington)
Frank On Tap – alt rock (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Greatsouth – Māori indie rock, Polynesian post-punk (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Guardian Singles – post-punk (Te Tai Tokerau / Northland)
Half/Angel – alt rock, noise rock (Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington)
Hun Lynch – avant-Pop, neo-soul, noir (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Keith Pereira – country pop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
LEAO – niu wave, Pacific Psychedelia, post-punk (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Louis Baker – soul, neo-soul, R&B (Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington)
Mainard Larkin – alt-country (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Mokomokai – hip hop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Paige – pop, singer-songwriter, soul (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Pearly* – indie Rock, alternative rock, noise rock (Ōtepoti/Dunedin)
Powder Chutes – alternative rock, grunge, hard rock (Wānaka)
Ray Leslie – alternative hip-hop, jazz-house, neo-soul (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
SKILAA – psychedelic R&B, hip hop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
SOLA ROSA – electronic (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Tusekah – alt R&B, neo-soul, pop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Tyran – R&B, soul (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)
Where's Jai – pop, rock electropop (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland)

Early bird tickets and two night passes available HERE via UTR

'It's getting hotti' is out now on major streaming platforms.