Port Noise Festival 2025

After two consecutive sell out years, Ōhinehou Lyttelton’s own Port Noise Festival makes its climactic return on March 1st, 2025.

Our first lineup release includes guitar pop legend David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, hazy jangle king Jim Nothing, Tāmaki skuzz-punk supergroup Opus, alt-techno prodigy Mr Meaty Boy, Ngāti Hine bass-lord Mokotron, Puerto Rican analogue sun-soaked dubs-dealer Pachyman, Nebraskan poet and Americana hero Simon Joyner & The Eucalypts, and Melbourne-via-Invercargill shapeshifting rave apparition Vanessa Worm.

Many more to be announced in our second lineup reveal coming soon.

At Port Noise, we transform the car park and courtyard that connects three neighbouring iconic venues in Ōhinehou Lyttelton, offering festival-goers the best in music, local cuisine, craft brews, merchandise and record pop ups, immersive installations, and artist-led micro experiences.
As we continue our work to showcase the breadth of the alternative music and arts within Aotearoa, 2025 looks to be an even more wildly expansive festival. After another sell-out year, we are working to meet the high demand for the festival. Through increasing our site's footprint, we’re able to share an even greater trough of local and international talent to tantalise the senses. Of course while making sure to retain the artist and community led feel that makes our festival so unique.

In a space curated to embrace the industrial beauty of our hometown, while expanding the limits of what one may expect from an arts and music festival–– we invite both audience and artist alike to come bask in the wild glory of this shared true telling of the self.

Thanks to our sponsors Christchurch City Council, Three Boys, The Boneline, Hang Up, RDU 98.5, Lyttelton Port Company, Phantom Billstickers, and Undertheradar.co.nz