The Others Way Festival returns to take over Tāmaki
Makaurau’s Karangahape Road district for Auckland’s most
exciting music festival and street party of 2022, with 50
acts scheduled to perform across the event.
Today, the
festival adds the beloved Don McGlashan
with his band The Others, the
‘melting melodies’ of Mild Orange and New
Zealand singer/songwriter, Erny Belle.
Unfortunately, the previously announced Space Waltz,
Golden Awesome, and Jay Clarkson
are no longer able to perform.
Don
McGlashan says:
“The planets
have unexpectedly aligned, and we’re on the bill at
Tāmaki Makaurau’s “Others Way” Festival next week! We
love The Others Way, and we can’t wait to be part of
it.”
The Others Way 2022 is being
held as a one-off midsummer celebration on Auckland’s
Anniversary Weekend, Saturday, January 29. The festival is
kicking off at 4 pm, with brand new stages, venues, and
schedules set to take advantage of our glorious hot days and
long golden summer evenings.
An additional outdoor
stage on Cross Street makes an exciting new precinct with
Mercury Theatre and Mercury Plaza Gallery, a unique
Hallertau bar on Cross Street and food trucks on Mercury
Lane and East Street add to the street-party atmosphere. The
festival has also added a new indoor venue in the old Samoan
Church on East Street. For the very first time, the festival
is moving the Audio Foundation stage outside onto Poynton
Terrace which adds a second All-Ages stage alongside the To
The Front Stage at the Methodist Church next to the Flying
Out store. Percussionist/Beat Maker Lucky Paul will be
running his busking set at Pocket Park on Pitt Street early
in the day.
Festival spokesperson Matthew
Davis reflects:
“As it is a one-off
mid-summer event, it is great to be able to take some parts
of the festival outside while continuing to feature and work
with the amazing music venues of Karangahape
Road.”
The new outdoor locations increase
capacity, but more importantly, it helps widen the
connection with Karangahape Road and the prominent places
across the area. As well as the new outdoor spaces, the
festival is held across iconic venues; Backroom, East St
Church, Galatos, Mercury Theatre, Neck of the Woods, Soap,
The Studio, Whammy and Wine Cellar.
The Others Way has
long been recognised for the vibrancy of the industry and
local business, and Jamey Holloway, CEO of
The Karangahape Road Business Association, says, “The
Others Way is a total calendar highlight for Karangahape
Road. Can’t wait for the summer edition.”
Stay
tuned for the official timetable and festival map in the
coming days.
Tickets on sale from flyingout.co.nz
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THE
2022 FESTIVAL LINEUP
Electronic folk artist
Anthonie Tonnon, Don McGlashan & The
Others, one of Aotearoa’s most potent psychedelic,
dream-pop artists of the decade Fazerdaze,
fan favourites, eclectic pop-star Princess
Chelsea and fuzz-pop heartbreakers
Voom.
Lawrence Arabia
will be performing his Taite-award winning classic
album, Chant Darling, and
Julia Deans (of Fur Patrol) is
performing solo.
Troy Kingi is back
after playing a fantastic set in 2018; he’s written three
albums since and will be bringing his amazing talents with a
killer band to Karangahape Rd once more. Also joining the
bill is Diggy Dupé – bringing his friends
along to provide us with a set like no other. Performing
songs from critically acclaimed The
Panthers series with a star-studded band
(Adam Fuhr, Chip Matthews, Elijah White
& GARETHXMF).
Featuring
familiar names; The Coolies, once described
by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore as “punk
no-wave sonic heartstring buzzing clatter rock n roll”.
The 1980s Flying Nun indie-pop band Dead Famous
People and Francisca Griffin of
Look Blue Go Purple fame with her band,
The Bus Shelter Boys. Plus award-winning,
instrumental post-rock band Jakob and
Auckland’s first theatrical/political punk band from the
70s’ The Plague.
Notable acts from
all corners of Aotearoa are set to perform; from Ōtautahi,
heavy psych-rockers The Fuzzy Robes and
indie dream pop band There’s a Tuesday.
From Ōtepoti; lavish psych-pop artist Juno Is,
dream-pop, indie rockers Mild Orange
and drum and double stringed diddley bow iconic duo
Night Lunch. From the deep South
(Waihōpai) comes DJ/Producer Eden Burns.
From Pōneke comes; dream-fuzz group
Transistor, the infectiously fun punk pals
DARTZ, garage-rock trio Soft
Plastics and Wellington-via-Los Angeles, Flying Nun
signee Vera Ellen with her critically
acclaimed indie power-pop, plus, the 7-piece lush supergroup
Recitals. And, just added,
Ngāpuhi-descended singer/songwriter Erny
Belle.
Tāmaki Makaurau’s Dark, heavy and
cathartic group Sulfate, jangly post-punk
supergroup Guardian Singles, and post-punk
trio Repairs are performing across the
multi-venue festival.
Heavy Psych-Fuzz two-piece
Earth Tongue joins the lineup alongside one
of Aotearoa’s most prolific singers and songwriters,
Dianne Swann, electronic artist
Power Nap and Percussionist/Beat Maker
Lucky Paul.
Post-punk band
Daffodils, lush orchestral jazz
group, Carnivorous Plant Society,
electronic-punk-rockers Grecco
Romank, bold and edgy alt-pop artist
Theia, dream pop project Phoebe
Rings, and critically acclaimed Hip Hop trio
Team Dynamite are scheduled to
perform.
Psychedelic Joe Ghatt,
eclectic rapper Kamahumble,
indie-pop Merk, Hybrid Rose and
their Shimmery Synth-techno-pop, home-grown indie goodness
from LIPS, dream-folk artist
Jazmine Mary plus
PollyHill with her hypnotic beats and witty
raps, and musician, rapper and percussionist Phodiso
are among the artist set to wow.
To The
Front, All-Ages Stage will be back and featuring a selection
of bands from the campers plus some memorable performances
from some of the artist’s playing the festival.
Delve
deeper into these performers, and get yourselves familiar
with the talent performing The Others Way Festival 2021 (now
in 2022) with
The Others Way Spotify
playlist.
