13 January 2023 - 0 Comments

With less than 2 weeks until Fatboy Slim returns to New Zealand to tour the country, the support acts who are responsible for getting the Kiwis dancing before Fatboy Slim takes to the stage have been announced.

US Producer, DJ and Pianist LP Giobbi will feature in Christchurch, Napier and Gardens Music Festival in Auckland. Recently announced for Coachella 2023, this will be her first tour of New Zealand. Producer, DJ, pianist, entrepreneur, and activist LP Giobbi is an unstoppable force in the music industry, whose passion for her craft extends far beyond the stage. Since emerging in 2018, the Austin-based piano house queen has played to thousands of fans across the globe, performing on the stages of Coachella, EDC, Firefly, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and ACL, and supporting such heavyweights as Galantis, Sofi Tukker, MK, Fatboy Slim, Madeon, and Diplo.

After record breaking residencies in Ibiza and regular festival sets across the globe, British house producers Solardo return to New Zealand to warm up proceedings in Wellington, Queenstown and Taupo. And fresh from their highlight set at Rhythm and Vines, Australian producers Set Mo return to deliver their addictive dance floor anthems to Napier and Gardens Music Festival in Auckland.

The Fatboy Slim tour also features local support for his 8 shows from Sin, Dick Johnson, General Lee, Beccie B, Sweet Mix Kids and Sneeky. The full lineup for Fatboy Slim & Friends at Gardens Music Festival to be announced on Monday, January 16.

Head to endeavour.live/fatboyslim for full tour details.

With most of the shows close to selling out, don't hesitate in buying now to one of the shows of summer.

FATBOY SLIM NZ TOUR DATES

FRI, JAN 27 - QE2 PARK - CHRISTCHURCH

SAT, JAN 28 - TREMAIN FIELD - NAPIER

SUN, JAN 29 - VICTORIA PARK* - AUCKLAND

TUE, JAN 31 - STONYRIDGE WINERY, WAIHEKE ISLAND SOLD OUT

WED, FEB 1 - SKY TOWER, AUCKLAND SOLD OUT

FRI, FEB 3 - ANDERSON PARK - WELLINGTON SOLD OUT

SAT, FEB 4 - GIBBSTON VALLEY - QUEENSTOWN

SUN, FEB 5 - TAUPO AMPHITHEATRE - TAUPO

All shows are R18. *Gardens Music Festival - Victoria Park feat Fatboy Slim & Friends

Fatboy Slim’s performance in Auckland will give birth to a new festival for the city - Gardens Music Festival - Victoria Park

ABOUT FATBOY SLIM NZ TOUR

Over 20,000 fans who experienced his 2019 New Zealand tour have been counting down the days for the return. With a career spanning over four decades, Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook, is considered one of the original godfathers of dance music and was a key pioneer of the big beat genre of the nineties, with certified hits Right Here, Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank and Praise You.

Fatboy Slim’s success lies in his ability to blend funky breakbeats with the most catchy melodies and riffs, and he has reached a wider audience than many DJs by combining elements of rock and dance music. Cook holds the Guiness World Record for the most top 40 hits under different names, and as a solo act, he has won ten MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards.

Kiwis will need to eat, sleep, rave, repeat in order to prepare themselves for the mind and genre-bending multi-visual effects and stage presence that comes with a Fatboy Slim show. He might have played to over 250,000 people on Brighton Beach, and headlined festival and arena shows around the world, but nothing of this magnitude and depth that goes into the heart and soul of New Zealand. Prior to his 2019 tour of NZ, Fatboy Slim last performed in New Zealand at a sold-out headline show at Vector Arena in 2012, and fans would still fondly remember his set closing out the Boiler Room at Big Day Out in 1999. His return to Aotearoa will no doubt spark the re-appearance of ravers young and old across dance floors around the country.

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