Ōtautahi Christchurch welcomes summer festival year again in a significant way with today’s mega-stacked lineup for Electric powered Avenue 2023, bringing the occasion to Hagley Park on Saturday 25th February. The competition has absent certainly all-out with the headliners for their eighth edition, such as globally beloved Aotearoa pop icon Lorde, Australian digital generation wiz Flume, Baltimore heroes Potential Islands, Pōneke dub innovators Fat Freddy’s Drop, soul / RnB superstar TEEKS, funk-rock legends Supergroove, pageant faves L.A.B, Melbourne synth-pop duo Customer Liaison, famed orchestral / EDM ensemble Synthony and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
There’ll be just about 50 acts doing in excess of 5 stages to an predicted crowd of in excess of 30,000 attendees (including a new 10,000 ability momentary indoor arena), with a still to be announced drum & bass headliner still waiting in the wings (uncovered in November). Cast your eyes on the full lineup down below and preserve individuals FOMO fears at bay by snapping up tickets quickly…
“It’s fantastic to be back again with what is by considerably our strongest line-up to date, and a actual privilege to be in a position to have artists of the calibre of Lorde and Flume on the program… We’re in all probability one particular of the country’s most musically numerous festivals – I feel that’s been a huge section of our attractiveness and it is undoubtedly a thing we get the job done challenging each individual year to curate.
We started off out with 8,000 individuals at our very first Electrical Avenue in 2015 so it’s fairly specific to be hosting 30,000 men and women dancing to 50 artists more than 12 hours in the most wonderful central town park that this region has. Quality new music is excellent audio regardless of whether its soul, drum & bass, rock, techno or hip hop as much as we’re anxious, and we’ve by no means tied ourselves to a certain design and style or genre.” — festival director Callam Mitchell
“We really like coming down to Ōtautahi! This will be our 3rd time actively playing Electric powered Ave and it really is normally a indicate excitement!” — L.A.B. singer / guitarist Joel Shadbolt
Electric Avenue 2023
Saturday 25th February – Hagley Park, Christchurch (R18)
That includes… Lorde, Flume, L.A.B, Synthony, Excess fat Freddy’s Drop, Peking Duk, Teeks, Potential Islands, Lee Mvtthews, Montell2099, Summer time Burglars, Supergroove, The Black Seeds, Shopper Liaison, Dillinja, Twin, Harper Finn, Muroki, Odd Mob, Pitch Black, Savage, Sycco, 1 Fall Country, Ashy, Beacon Bloom, Significant Sima & Boomtown, Dillastrate, Emma Dilemma, Keepsakes, Midi Committee, Prins, Pylonz, Volts, Crone, Japanese Run, Ebb, Elphee, Kravis, Kubo & Lee, Michele Ducray, MJ, Percy the Child & Only Clangs, Sam Bamberry, The Settlers, Wulfie + Drum & Bass headliner to be announced
Presales out there from, 9am, Thursday 6th Oct (presale registrations open now)
Common community tickets on sale from 9am, Wednesday 13th October
For much more information head alongside to electricavenuefestival.co.nz
This is the sun-soaked video clip for the title keep track of to Lorde’s newest album Solar Electric power…
https://www.youtube.com/look at?v=wvsP_lzh2-8
Check out the clip for Flume’s 2020 smash hit collab with Toro y Moi ‘The Difference’…
Press release
Contemporary from headlining at the likes of Coachella and Glastonbury, audio heavyweights Lorde and Flume will entertain an anticipated group of more than 30,000 individuals on 25 February in Christchurch’s Hagley Park.
Close to 50 artists will be executing across 5 phases like a new 10,000 potential non permanent indoor arena, in what will be the eighth Electric powered Avenue new music pageant.
Also named in the announcement are top rated Kiwi acts L.A.B, Fats Freddy’s Drop, Supergroove and Teeks, as well as a selection of other international artists together with Peking Duk & Long term Islands.
The amazing Synthony show will be earning its debut festival physical appearance, and a British isles drum & bass headlining artist will also be announced in November.
Electric powered Avenue is the only entire competition appearance in New Zealand prepared by Lorde and is portion of her planet tour advertising her Solar Electrical power album unveiled very last 12 months.
Flume whose real title is Harley Streten has not performed in New Zealand considering that 2019 said he’s wanting ahead to returning to New Zealand to showcase his new album “it’s been much too extensive – I’m energized to occur back with the new clearly show!”
Immediately after becoming pressured to cancel the party previously this 12 months festival promoters Staff Party are excited with their expanded designs for next summer.
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