September 5, 2025 • 6 mins
Summer is nearly upon us, bringing with it the array of music festivals that call New Zealand home. The line ups are beginning to be announced, but what acts are worth making the trip?
Music connoisseur Estelle Clifford has compiled a list of artists and bands she thinks is worth shelling out to see.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks EDB Kids, Um Believe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
In the Gradest's Graynce London Love.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What's second place?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Said payn Down? So the lights well just oh that's
the greatest. By Sex sixty. We're counting down some top
Kiwi bands this morning on news Talks EDB as the
lineups for New Zealand summer festivals for twenty five twenty
(00:47):
six beginning to be confirmed music via Stelle. Clifford is
here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hello, Hello, Morena.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I have been that sideline football and my raincoat and
I am ready to shed that skin and embrace summer.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right Ye yeah, I think we all are speaking for
all of us this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah exactly, You've been out there this morning. Now we
want some good jams to get us through into the
into the festival. Vibe six sixty of course, I mean
that just sounds like summer. It sounds like a festival
as soon as your crank cup their music.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
They are one of the bands.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Who have been confirmed for Homegrown of Course in its
new home of Claudland's Oval and Hamilton and the Mighty
Tron next year away from Wellington and that is going
to be massive. The other huge festival that's been announced
this week is Electric Avenue.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger act. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I love that it's in Hagley Park in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I love it gives people an excuse to head down
south and maybe tag it on to the end of
you finishing summer holidays and then you get back into
it with a two day festival so that you can
pre register now too for pre sales, which happen pre
sale's open on Wednesday. I think it's gonna I think
this is going to sell out pretty fast because the
big headlining act is Split Ends Amazing, so celebrating their
(02:02):
fiftieth anniversary, they're headlining this, and I think think producing
Libby when her and I were having a chat earlier
in the week, where like, they're not just going to
headline this, are they? I don't want to start a
rumor or anything or any huge expectation on them, but
if you're going to bring all the band back together.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, I mean, think of all the practice that needs
to go in right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, maybe they don't practice at all, Jack, Maybe that's
maybe get up on stage and go for it after
fifty years of having these tunes in their heads. I
don't know, but that is going to be spectacular. It
is the full band who's.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Going to be there. I just think that's that's going
to be a very big crowd.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's interesting totally.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, it's huge at the festival's two way like that.
It kind of covers a lot of generations when it
comes to the music, and I really love that. So,
I mean you've got split ends who definitely go over
decades since the seventies, and then you've got the streets
and basement jacks as part of that festival. I mean
that's kind of like your nineties sort of into the
(03:04):
two thousands. Yeah, don't you know those guys, I can't
I seriously seen there on stage.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
If they don't perform there, I'd be very very surprised.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, much like Kasha being there, Like that's
quite an exclusive exclusive to the New Zealand version of
Electric Revenue.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
How did they do that.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Variety? Because it's over two days now, right, yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Two days, So you've got to have your wits about you.
Can I please give some advice here when it comes
to today festivals don't pre party on the Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I know you're going to be that your people are
all coming together and they'll probably come together on the Thursday,
and you'll go hard from Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Don't don't pre party.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
My advice. My advice is don't wear your new pair
of Doc Martins.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh not those either. You need the ones that you've
had for.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Twenty years exactly exactly. They need to be well worn
in you know.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Actually you know the thing you should wear to a festival,
and I get that on the top half you might
not want to rock it, but active wear just if
at least not on the top half. We're your most
comfyer sneaks because happy feet are dancing feet, and you
will be able to stay standing for a long period
of time if you're wearing your most comfyer sneakers. So
(04:18):
don't even worry if you're sneaking it, like if you're
doing the sign fel jeans and sneakers, don't whole because
you lean into it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You want to survive these two days, So don't party till.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You get there where your comfy sneakers or you're very
worn in docks like you say. Also a bum bag
or fanny pack, whatever you want to call it. Yeah,
because that's hands free fun man. You don't have to
be worrying about where your cards, where your phone as
it all goes in where you go to louse the portoloo,
zip it up, no worries, You're not going to drop anything.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We shouldn't be dropping it. So those are the muss.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Do we know who's playing Rhythm and Vines this year?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I do know that, and I just slipped my mind
now actually.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I'm looking at it now. So who's going to be
playing December between?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I mean Rhythm and Vines is like they're so
cool that I don't know they are.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's one of those kind of coming of age festivals
too over the new year. So at some stage in
your life, if you haven't hit a Rhythm and Vines,
you should definitely make the trip to get into that
kemping vibe and go and do it because it'll be massive.
What's kind of call tho was a lot of those
key we bands are following those gigs around, which is
quite fun for their may like ones like SOMs of Zion.
(05:30):
Yeah steps seeing those kind of guys on the homegrown
stage will be really great.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You've got the Jordan Luck.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Band coming in and then Ray and t Wiki and Villainy,
so it kind of mixes up not just that reggae dubs.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Sound, but you've got some of that metal and rock.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Our home brew music's coming to rhythm.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
See.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That's also why they release tickets now, because it's before
your Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, of course. So who's your top pig to go
and see.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You have to see Split Ends, yes, and you have
to see Kasher. And I know she's like a free
spirit now and doing her own music, but if she
doesn't do TikTok, I would seriously cry, Yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
She's got to do that. She could she must be
allowed to write.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah absolutely, yeah, yeah if she doesn't do that, but
I just think that's amazing that she's going to be
part of that festival, so I wouldn't want to miss
seeing her.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then yeah, isn't that so weird?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Like what a weird collection of artists to see? And
then the ah Drecks Project. When you see those guys live,
huge energy and there's something cool about someone who sings
and plays sex iPhone at the same time. When you
actually see that physically live away from the recorded music.
Sean's pretty magic to see.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah so good. All right, have a wonderful weekend. Thank
you so much, Stelle. Stelle Clifford with her top picks
for the summer festivals and that's so fast.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks EDB Kids, Um Believe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
In the Gradest's Graynce London Love.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What's second place?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Said payn Down? So the lights well just oh that's
the greatest. By Sex sixty. We're counting down some top
Kiwi bands this morning on news Talks EDB as the
lineups for New Zealand summer festivals for twenty five twenty
(00:47):
six beginning to be confirmed music via Stelle. Clifford is
here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hello, Hello, Morena.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I have been that sideline football and my raincoat and
I am ready to shed that skin and embrace summer.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right Ye yeah, I think we all are speaking for
all of us this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah exactly, You've been out there this morning. Now we
want some good jams to get us through into the
into the festival. Vibe six sixty of course, I mean
that just sounds like summer. It sounds like a festival
as soon as your crank cup their music.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
They are one of the bands.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Who have been confirmed for Homegrown of Course in its
new home of Claudland's Oval and Hamilton and the Mighty
Tron next year away from Wellington and that is going
to be massive. The other huge festival that's been announced
this week is Electric Avenue.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger act. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I love that it's in Hagley Park in christ Church.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I love it gives people an excuse to head down
south and maybe tag it on to the end of
you finishing summer holidays and then you get back into
it with a two day festival so that you can
pre register now too for pre sales, which happen pre
sale's open on Wednesday. I think it's gonna I think
this is going to sell out pretty fast because the
big headlining act is Split Ends Amazing, so celebrating their
(02:02):
fiftieth anniversary, they're headlining this, and I think think producing
Libby when her and I were having a chat earlier
in the week, where like, they're not just going to
headline this, are they? I don't want to start a
rumor or anything or any huge expectation on them, but
if you're going to bring all the band back together.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, I mean, think of all the practice that needs
to go in right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, maybe they don't practice at all, Jack, Maybe that's
maybe get up on stage and go for it after
fifty years of having these tunes in their heads. I
don't know, but that is going to be spectacular. It
is the full band who's.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Going to be there. I just think that's that's going
to be a very big crowd.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's interesting totally.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, it's huge at the festival's two way like that.
It kind of covers a lot of generations when it
comes to the music, and I really love that. So,
I mean you've got split ends who definitely go over
decades since the seventies, and then you've got the streets
and basement jacks as part of that festival. I mean
that's kind of like your nineties sort of into the
(03:04):
two thousands. Yeah, don't you know those guys, I can't
I seriously seen there on stage.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
If they don't perform there, I'd be very very surprised.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, much like Kasha being there, Like that's
quite an exclusive exclusive to the New Zealand version of
Electric Revenue.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
How did they do that.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Variety? Because it's over two days now, right, yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Two days, So you've got to have your wits about you.
Can I please give some advice here when it comes
to today festivals don't pre party on the Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I know you're going to be that your people are
all coming together and they'll probably come together on the Thursday,
and you'll go hard from Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Don't don't pre party.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
My advice. My advice is don't wear your new pair
of Doc Martins.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh not those either. You need the ones that you've
had for.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Twenty years exactly exactly. They need to be well worn
in you know.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Actually you know the thing you should wear to a festival,
and I get that on the top half you might
not want to rock it, but active wear just if
at least not on the top half. We're your most
comfyer sneaks because happy feet are dancing feet, and you
will be able to stay standing for a long period
of time if you're wearing your most comfyer sneakers. So
(04:18):
don't even worry if you're sneaking it, like if you're
doing the sign fel jeans and sneakers, don't whole because
you lean into it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You want to survive these two days, So don't party till.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You get there where your comfy sneakers or you're very
worn in docks like you say. Also a bum bag
or fanny pack, whatever you want to call it. Yeah,
because that's hands free fun man. You don't have to
be worrying about where your cards, where your phone as
it all goes in where you go to louse the portoloo,
zip it up, no worries, You're not going to drop anything.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We shouldn't be dropping it. So those are the muss.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Do we know who's playing Rhythm and Vines this year?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I do know that, and I just slipped my mind
now actually.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I'm looking at it now. So who's going to be
playing December between?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I mean Rhythm and Vines is like they're so
cool that I don't know they are.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's one of those kind of coming of age festivals
too over the new year. So at some stage in
your life, if you haven't hit a Rhythm and Vines,
you should definitely make the trip to get into that
kemping vibe and go and do it because it'll be massive.
What's kind of call tho was a lot of those
key we bands are following those gigs around, which is
quite fun for their may like ones like SOMs of Zion.
(05:30):
Yeah steps seeing those kind of guys on the homegrown
stage will be really great.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You've got the Jordan Luck.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Band coming in and then Ray and t Wiki and Villainy,
so it kind of mixes up not just that reggae dubs.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Sound, but you've got some of that metal and rock.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Our home brew music's coming to rhythm.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
See.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That's also why they release tickets now, because it's before
your Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, of course. So who's your top pig to go
and see.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You have to see Split Ends, yes, and you have
to see Kasher. And I know she's like a free
spirit now and doing her own music, but if she
doesn't do TikTok, I would seriously cry, Yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
She's got to do that. She could she must be
allowed to write.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah absolutely, yeah, yeah if she doesn't do that, but
I just think that's amazing that she's going to be
part of that festival, so I wouldn't want to miss
seeing her.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then yeah, isn't that so weird?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Like what a weird collection of artists to see? And
then the ah Drecks Project. When you see those guys live,
huge energy and there's something cool about someone who sings
and plays sex iPhone at the same time. When you
actually see that physically live away from the recorded music.
Sean's pretty magic to see.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah so good. All right, have a wonderful weekend. Thank
you so much, Stelle. Stelle Clifford with her top picks
for the summer festivals and that's so fast.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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