Freaky On The High Seas: Costume Ideas For The Trancevaders Halloween Boat Party
Picture it. The sun is sinking behind the Auckland skyline, a psytrance bassline is rolling across the harbour and a boat full of ghosts, aliens and sea witches is dancing its way into the night. If that sounds like your idea of a perfect Halloween, you’re in the right place. Trancevaders is celebrating 10 years…
AURA Music & Arts Festival 2026: A Melbourne Guide
AURA Music & Arts Festival returns to Melbourne for its third edition on 30 October 2026, and the clue to what makes it worth your time is right there in the name. This isn’t just a lineup – it’s a music and arts festival, which means the visual side of the event matters as much…
Terminal V Sydney 2026: What To Wear And What To Expect
Terminal V has built a serious reputation in techno, and the Sydney edition brings that energy to ivy on 17-18 October 2026. This is a different animal to a paddock festival – it’s an indoor, big-room techno event in the middle of the city, and it wants a different approach to what you wear and…
Octoblast 2026: The Complete Guide To Te Arai
Octoblast is one of those festivals that people in the know get quietly excited about months out. It lands in late spring on the Northland coast, it runs bass music, techno and psytrance across multiple stages, and it has built a reputation as a properly immersive weekend rather than just a lineup on a paddock.…
How To Wash And Store Faux Fur So It Actually Lasts
You know the feeling. You get home from a festival, peel off your coat, and it looks like it has been through a storm. The fur is flat in patches, there is a mystery stickiness on one sleeve, and the whole thing smells faintly of smoke and someone else’s night out. Here is the good…
Super Fruit D-Floor Rolla’s: The Roll Up That Survives A Whole Festival
There is a moment at every festival, usually in the early hours of the morning, when your body tells you that the last thing you ate was a $14 hot chip at 4pm the previous day. The queue for food is forty deep. Your tent is a fifteen minute walk away. You have no cash,…
Festival Palaces: How To Build A Camp That Survives The Weekend
You know the walk. The psytrance stage has finally let you go, the sky is doing that horrible pale thing over the pines, your legs have the structural integrity of wet noodles, and all you want is to lie down somewhere that isn’t a paddock. Then you get back to camp and it’s a dark,…
The Best Earplugs For Festivals, Gigs And Clubs In NZ
If your ears have ever rung on the drive home from a gig, that was your hearing filing a complaint. Ringing ears are a sign of noise damage, and unlike a hangover, hearing damage doesn’t reset by Monday – it accumulates over every festival, club night and gig for the rest of your life. The…
Womens Festival Outfits: What To Wear To Any NZ Festival
Sorting womens festival outfits should be the fun part of the countdown, not a last-minute panic. Whether it’s your first festival or your fiftieth, the goal is the same: a look that feels like you, survives twelve hours of dancing, and handles everything a New Zealand summer (or winter) throws at it. This is our…
Festival Faux Fur: Coats, Hoodies And How To Choose Yours
Every festival wardrobe eventually arrives at the same destination: faux fur. It starts as a practical decision – NZ nights are cold and fur is warm – and becomes an identity. The fur coat is the piece people hug you in, the landmark your crew finds you by, the thing that makes 3am on the…
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