My Chemical Romance, The influential New Jersey alternative post punk band rose from the East Coast underground in the early 2000’s and took the world by storm with their 2004 breakthrough LP Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, thanks to hit singles ‘I’m Not Ok,’ ‘Helena’ and ‘The Ghost Of You.’ Selling out stadiums across the globe and providing the soundtrack of a generation, the world has been desperately wishing for a My Chemical Romance reunion since their split in 2013, finally announcing their return in October 2019.
Since pausing their union, Goodnight Nurse band members Joel Little, Jaden Parkes and Rowan Crowe branched out to forge incredibly successful music industry careers of their own. As Grammy-winning music producers, record company executives and recording artists whose own projects have become far more successful that Goodnight Nurse ever were. Often compared to New Zealand’s answer to US pop-rock bands Green Day and Blink 182, Goodnight Nurse throughout their successful nine year career, toured New Zealand and Australia continuously, released two NZ Top 5 albums and five NZ Top 40 singles.
Miss June harness jagged, noisy guitars filtered through the unrivalled stage presence of lead singer Annabel Liddell, unafraid, unapologetic and ready to wake up the music scene. Liddell joined Jun Park, Chris Marshall and Tom Legget has built a reputation for fierce, formidable, head-spinning live shows. Described as “some unholy union between Sonic Youth and Le Tigre” Miss June have caught the attention of acts like The Foo Fighters, Shellac, Wolf Alice, Idles and DieDieDie, who have all eagerly harnessed their support on stage. Miss June released their debut album in 2019, toured relentlessly around the world in support of the album which received rave reviews and are now planning the release of their eagerly awaited sophomore album this year.
Lips is a four-piece band led by Steph Brown and Fen Ikner who won the coveted Silver Scroll award in 2012 for their debut single “Everything to me”. The band subsequently released 2 EPs and several singles, garnering praise from online publications such as The Needle Drop and The New LoFi, before disappearing into the world of theatre and film for several years. (In brief: they toured internationally as musical directors and performers in the award winning musical stage play Daffodils, and later oversaw the musical direction and score for a feature film version of the play starring Kimbra and Rose McIver.) In 2019, eager to get back to playing original music, Lips recruited two superstar musicians, Ruby Walsh and Maude Morris to join their band, they released “Guilty Talk” a single mixed by UMO’s Kody Nielson, which went to Number 1 on New Zealand’s Student Radio Network. In 2020 Lips finished their long awaited debut album “I Don’t Know Why I Do Anything”, released July 16, 2021 which was nominated for the Taite Award for Best Album.
