Mermgrown Auckland 2021 Second Lineup Announced + Interview Annabel Kean / Photo credit: Paige Warton / Tuesday 9th March, 2021 9:00AM
The
Mermaidens Soft Energy philosophy clearly gets shit done, as the Merms have wrapped up a wildly successful Mermgrown Festival Pōneke, are embarking on an Aotearoa-wide tour this week, and have just announced the second wave of acts for
Mermgrown Auckland. Topping up the already dazzling lineup are locally grown talents
Louisa Nicklin,
Ez Ra, and Pōneke creator
Samara Alofa, with even more bands to be revealed next week. The festival is on Saturday the 20th of March and is the only way you can say you attended the very first Tāmaki Mermgrown, and a second chance for you dummies who slept on the Wellington edition when it blew minds last month.
Ez Ra
In the spirit of worldwide domination, Mermaidens have announced that Mermgrown Festival will be coming to Tāmaki Makaurau! On Saturday 20 March 2021 the merms and their talented pals will take over Whammy, Wine Cellar and Backroom for a steamy multi-room extravaganza.
Alongside Mermaidens, this year’s Mermgrown Auckland lineup features the long-awaited return of Kane Strang with a full band, playing songs from his upcoming album as well as happysad bangers from his back catalogue. Kane Strang’s band includes Peter Ruddell (Wax Chattels, Sulfate), Leith Towers (Marlin’s Dreaming), Mitchell Innes and Mermaidens’ own Gussie Larkin.
The first lineup announcement also includes local faves Phoebe Rings, electronic artist Leaping Tiger, 95bfm favourites K M T P, David Feauai-Afaese’s project LEAO, and many more to be announced.
Mermaidens Soft Energy Tour
Tour Information
Beloved Pōneke trio Mermaidens have today announced a nationwide tour in support of their soon-to-be-released single, ‘Soft Energy’.
Gussie Larkin, Lily West and Abe Hollingsworth have spent their summer in the studio, hard at work, road-testing an assortment of new material that they’re itching to share with fans from sunny Tāmaki Makaurau right down to mighty Ōtepoti (playing six dates in total).
Think more glitter, think more pop, think Mermaidens like you’ve never seen them before…
”The three of us have spent the past couple of months making a racket both in our practice space and in a recording studio. We weren’t exactly expecting it but, these noises turned into songs! And now we get to play them live to the best people in the world,” says Gussie.