Chris Schulz: The Homegrown musical festival in Hamilton

Hamilton is welcoming thousands of music fans for Homegrown festival today. 

The festival has returned to the city it started in after almost two decades on Wellington's waterfront. 

More than 25 thousand people are expected at Claudelands Oval, including Chris Schulz. 

He joined Jack Tame from the festival to chat about this year’s offering.  

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
I love this song. God, it's beautiful, isn't It's Lydia
by fir Patrol. They're playing Homegrown today. Chris Schultz is
headed to Homegrown along with thirty five thousand other New
Zealand music fans who will be absolutely loving it today.
Sixty acts. It's just extraordinary Christmas weather snawgday to Jack.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I just got to hear the suns out. I can
hear the drums kicking off in the background. They're about
to open the gates. So yeah, you're right. It's all
happening here in Hamilton, a city that there has been
a little derided over the years the tron the Bogan
Capital of New Zealand, lack in a bit of culture,
but that all changes today with home Grown. This is

(01:19):
the first time this All New Zealand festival has been
in Hamilton. Organizers dramatically pulled the plug on Wellington at
the end of after last year's show. They sort of
teased a few different options about where it might go.
They said Wellington it sort of just wasn't big enough
for them. They couldn't find a site and they had
bigger ambitions, and so they've come to Hamilton Claudland's Oval

(01:43):
and yeah, it's the biggest home ground yet. They are
expecting somewhere around that thirty thirty five thousand people to
show up, which puts it way ahead of last year's
twenty three thousand. That's all I could fit on the
waterfront brand in their Lake Sardines. Claudlin's Oval was three
times the size of that Wellington Warfront site, so they've
got space to burn this. Two extra stages, one for

(02:06):
all new artists I understand. I'm very much looking forward
to checking that out, and then just piggy genre. It's
like there's a rock stage, there's a hip hop stage,
there's a dance stage, and then there's a stage for
all the headliners, the ones we all know, you know,
the Labs, the six sixties, that kind of stuff. So yeah,
I'm looking forward to getting amongst it. I don't think

(02:28):
homegrown organizers have been given enough credit for what they've
achieved here. You know, an All New Zealand festival, launched
in two thousand and eight was a huge risk right,
Like New Zealand music wasn't what it is now. Back then,
we didn't have six sixty filling up stadiums, we didn't
have Lord touring the world. He was told Andrew Tucks,

(02:50):
the organizer. I spoke to him a week ago and they,
you know, people sort of said this will only last
two years, and here he is the nineteenth one today
and it's the biggest one yet. So yeah, they've really
done something special. It's remarkable, It's going.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
To be amazing. So who are you most looking forward
to seeing today?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do you know what?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I'm going to head to that hip up stage. I
want to throwback Savage Pee, Money Jack, David Dallas is
on there, Lady Sex as well. I haven't seen a
lot of those artists in a long time, so I
am going to get a little bit nostalgic. But for Patrol,
my sister actually went to the Wellington show a few
nights ago and she sat there in really good form.

(03:28):
So I'm really keen to see them, like I love
Super Groove at Electric Avenue, desperately want to see them again.
They're always just a really good time. And then I look,
apparently you can get between these stages, so much faster
than the Wellington Waterfront Festival, which was one long strip
along the waterfront. This is more of a circle. It's
an oval builds oval obviously, and apparently it's just sort

(03:51):
of three or four minutes. You can do a bit
of running about. So maybe i'll test his legs out
Jack soon, see what's left in them at the end
of this ridiculous summer of festival.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Amazing. Yeah, it's going to be so good. I wish
I was there. I'm burning with the envy, but I
know that you're very much well practiced. You've had a
little bit of a break since Electric Keev, so no
excuses for not getting around a few of those stages
this afternoon. And yeah, I can't wait to hear how
it all goes in the tron. So thank you very much, Chris.
You can hear, of course, more from Chris on his

(04:22):
sub stack is Substacks Boiler Room. And I hope if
you're heading along to Homegrown today, or to Pacifica, or
to the myriad other events around the country today, you
have a wonderful time as well. In a couple of minutes,
we'll wrap things up. I reckon, we'll play the Black
Seats given they're playing out Homegrown this afternoon. I reckon
we'll play the Black Seas to close out the show
in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
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