Auckland will host New Zealand’s first St Jerome's Laneways Festival. It all started in Melbourne in 2004 by Jerome Borazio and Danny Rogers when they decided that summers in Melbourne would be far better with more live music in unique settings.
They started by putting on bands in a Melbourne club called St Jerome's Bar each Sunday afternoon featuring fresh bands of the time like The Presets and Architecture in Helsinki. Then it became a monthly club night called Brains featuring the Avalanches as resident DJ’s (luckeey!!) Still not satisfied that they were doing enough, Borazio and Rogers decided they could close the lane behind the bar, remove the bins and throw a proper laneway party.
From there St Jerome's Laneways Festival spread to Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and now Britomart Square in Auckland’s CBD.
So far, the Auckland edition of the festival features:
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
DIRTY THREE
THE 3D’S
THE XX
BLACK LIPS
N.A.S.A
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS
FAMILY CACTUS
DEAR TIMES WASTE
And there is a second announcement in December!!
because we are pretty much best friends now here is a treat for you::
Florence and the Machine made the song and The XX remixed it and they are both playing at Laneways.. intertextual
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