Selective Soundz music festival is back

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Selective Soundz


Northland’s Selective Soundz music festival is back again for the 2011/2012 summer.

The inaugural outdoor summer festival held in Mangawhai earlier this year was a fitting close to a long and idyllic summer. However, this time around Selective Soundz will be held two months earlier to usher-in the start of summer on Tuesday 27 December.

Selective Soundz is located on a picturesque site bordered by trees and lakes near Mangawhai, one of Northland’s most popular beach holiday spots.

More than four thousand attended Selective Soundz last summer, and while the turnout is expected to grow this year, the licensed, R18 event has more of a spacious and laid-back vibe than other more intensively populated outdoor music festivals.

This year’s event hosts the cream of New Zealand music talent, including Sola Rosa, Anika Moa, Salmonella Dub, Jordan Luck, Sonz Of Zion, Soljah, Hollie Smith, State Of Mind (live), Grant Marshall and Katchafire.

SALMONELLA DUB are widely acknowledged as being the pioneers of a unique Pacific style of dub, reggae and drum n’ bass. Their structure has become more of a collective in recent years as they draw on a variety of skills from outside the original core of the band. Since SOLA ROSA’s first formative releases, Andrew Spraggon has steadily built a reputation for his deft synthesis of styles and quiet disregard for the niceties of genre boundaries. With a catch-all sound encompassing the best of hip hop, reggae, jazz, Latin, soul and funk, all six of Sola Rosa’s albums are a potent distillation of the music that has influenced Spraggon over the course of his career as musician and producer. STATE OF MIND are the drum n’ bass duo of Stu Maxwell and Patrick Hawkins. Beginning their careers in 2004, State Of Mind are notoriously prolific producers with releases across a board spectrum of labels throughout the drum n’ bass scene. Their third album ‘Nil By Ear’, represents the peak of SOM’s technical skills to date. HOLLIE SMITH has been described as “having the voice of a big black mama from a Southern Baptist choir”. Over the last 10 years she has toured internationally and worked on numerous collaborations with other artists, including Fat Freddys Drop, Trinity Roots & Recloose. SOLJAH are a five-piece who are creating waves across Aotearoa with their mesmerising live performances and ground stomping sound - heavy distorted riffs with rhythms that knock you off your feet, bouncy drum n bass to put you back on your feet and tight vocal harmonies that drip with catchy melodies. ANIKA MOA is sure to charm audiences with heartfelt songs, razor sharp wit and a passion for performing live. A finalist in this Silver Scroll Awards and winner of the Best Female Solo artist at 2010’s New Zealand Music Awards, Anika is one of the finest songwriters this country has to offer. JORDAN LUCK BAND – the iconic kiwi singer, Jordan Luck, will, as always, perform all the songs we know and love as well as a collection of recently penned and possible future stadium sing-a-longs of tomorrow. SONS OF ZION - with their fusion of reggae, rock, dub and roots are a talented young 6-piece. Since their debut gig for the 2007 NZ Music Month they have continued their momentum performing with such acts as Katchafire, Cornerstone Roots, Kora, House of Shem and The Black Seeds. KATCHAFIRE are New Zealand’s premier reggae band with a huge stage presence, high energy and sweet rhythms, which make them a crowd favourite among the summer music festival scene. With years of touring under their belts the band is constantly in demand in New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and elsewhere around the world.


Check www.selectivesoundz.co.nz for festival information updates as they come to hand. Please note the Selective Soundz is not an overnight event and as such no camping will be available onsite.

Selective Soundz

Settlement Road, Mangawhai

Tuesday 27 December

Gates Open: 2.00pm


Tickets on sale through Ticketmaster. Early bird tickets available for only $80 + b/f until they are gone and will be $90 + b/f thereafter.

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