Port Noise 2025 First Lineup Announced - David Kilgour, Mokotron, Pachyman, Jim Nothing, O/PUS, Simon Joyner, Vanessa Worm + More

We could all use something to elevate our spirits as we survey this week's scorched mediascape. Ōhinehou / Lyttelton's Port Noise deliver the goods with the exceptionally curated first lineup for 2025's multi-venue arts and music festival, threading throughout a variety of venues and spaces on 1st March. Announced in sync with general allocation tickets on sale from now onwards, next year's bill showcases a diverse selection of world-class artists from throughout Aotearoa and beyond.

Visitors from abroad include LA-based Puerto Rican dubwise one-man sound machine Pachyman (also touring nationwide this summer, read our recent interview HERE), Nebraskan poet / Americana songwriter Simon Joyner & The Eucalypts, and Naarm-based Waihōpai / Invercargill dancefloor innovator Vanessa Worm. Read the full official announcement below, grab tickets while you can (Port Noise traditionally sells out) and look forward to the second lineup coming soon...

"We are thrilled to announce the first lineup reveal of Port Noise 2025.

Our first lineup release includes guitar pop legend David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, hazy jangle king Jim Nothing, Tāmaki skuzz-punk supergroup O/PUS, alt-techno prodigy Mr Meaty Boy, Ngāti Hine bass-lord Mokotron, Puerto Rican analogue sun-soaked dubs-dealer Pachyman, Nebraskan poet and Americana hero Simon Joyner & The Eucalypts, and Melbourne-via-Invercargill shapeshifting rave apparition Vanessa Worm.

Many more to be announced in our second lineup reveal coming soon.

Our general allocation tickets are available now through Undertheradar.co.nz

Thanks to our sponsors Christchurch City Council, Three Boys, The Boneline, Hang Up, RDU 98.5, Lyttelton Port Company, Phantom Billstickers, and Undertheradar.co.nz"

Port Noise 2025
First lineup... David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, Jim Nothing, O/PUS, Mr Meaty Boy, Mokotron, Pachyman, Simon Joyner & The Eucalypts, Vanessa Worm + more to be announced
Saturday 1st March - various venues, Ōhinehou / Lyttelton
General allocation tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Boogie along with Pachyman's 'Goldline' from his 2023 album Switched On...

Experience the audio-visual mastery of Mokotron's new single 'WAEREA' created with animator and video artist Simon Ward, and uku artist Stevei Houkāmau...

Listen to Simon Joyner's 'Tekamah', from his 2022 album Songs from a Stolen Guitar...

Pioneering co-founder of The Clean, here's David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights' 'Smoke you right out of here' from 2019's Bobbie's a girl...

Press release:

After two consecutive sell out years, Ōhinehou Lyttelton’s own Port Noise Festival makes its climactic return on March 1st, 2025.

At Port Noise, we transform the car park and courtyard that connects three neighbouring iconic venues in Ōhinehou Lyttelton, offering festival-goers the best in music, local cuisine, craft brews, merchandise and record pop ups, immersive installations, and artist-led micro experiences.

As we continue our work to showcase the breadth of the alternative music and arts within Aotearoa, 2025 looks to be an even more wildly expansive festival. After another sell-out year, we are working to meet the high demand for the festival. Through increasing our site's footprint, we’re able to share an even greater trough of local and international talent to tantalise the senses. Of course while making sure to retain the artist and community led feel that makes our festival so unique.

In a space curated to embrace the industrial beauty of our hometown, while expanding the limits of what one may expect from an arts and music festival –– we invite both audience and artist alike to come bask in the wild glory of this shared true telling of the self.

It’s good to be back!