Music News - 80's Chart Toppers Mi-Sex to Headline Waikato Bluewaters Festival on Feb 2nd
17 January 2019 - 0 Comments
The Waikato now has it’s own Music Festival which is set to have its inaugural event at Lake Karapiro in Cambridge on Feb 2nd. The event will be headlined in its first year by Australian rock/pop legends Mi-Sex.
Mi-Sex shot to international fame after their 1979 album release Graffiti Crimes, driven by their smash hit single Computer Games, which peaked at No.1 in Australia and top ten in NZ, Canada, Germany and South Africa and charted in the U.S. Another notable single from the album was But You Don’t Care.
This album was followed by Space Race (#1 NZ), Shangaied & Where Do They Go? which featured many more hits including People, It Only Hurts When I’m Laughing, Falling In And Out and Blue Day.
While Mi-Sex is thought of as an Australian act, it was New Zealand that gave birth to the band. A name and a sound that grew out of combining the collective creative energies of a cabaret singer Steve Gilpin, an art-rock Bass player Don Martin, a talented Southern Drummer Richard Hodgkinson, a frustrated guitarist/song writer Kevin Stanton and a funk/dance keyboard player Murray Burns.
These five connections quickly dissolved their pasts, as they re-invented themselves, passing into the new era of new wave/electronic music and uniting fully as the sound that was to become Mi-Sex. Their debut album Straight Laddie saw them setting house records in NZ and they quickly set their sights on Australia.
Within a short time, on the strength of their highly energised and semi-theatrical live shows, were soon one of Sydney’s top bands, they were signed by legendary A&R producer Peter Dawkins and the rest is history. Mi-Sex went number one in Australia culminating in what many consider their landmark performance at the Sydney Opera House in the “Concert of the Decade”.
In 1984 Mi-Sex semi-retired from touring to take a well-deserved break and seek solo ventures. Always remaining the very closest of friends they came back together in the late 80’s for two more Australian tours and in the summer of 1990 began writing fresh material when tragically Steve Gilpin was killed in a car accident, putting the band on an in-definite hiatus.
It’s only in the last few years that the band has reformed and begun blowing away crowds with the high energy and songs that captivated the millions all those years ago.
The band are incredibly excited to play at the inaugural Bluewaters Music Festival in Cambridge in February and are promising a highly entertaining show full of all their hits.
Other notable acts at the festival are Tiki Taane, House of Shem and The Fleetwoods (Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show).
Free shuttles are operating all day from Cambridge to Lake Karapiro and buses are available from Hamilton and Te Awamutu.
All event information and tickets are still available for $75 from www.bluewatersfestival.co.nz
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