Want to perform at the TSB Bank Festival of Lights this Summer?
Applications are now open!
This year the entertainment programme starts on the evening of Boxing Day and finishes on Saturday 25 January 2014. The performance time for the Hatchery Lawn stage (seven days a week) will be 8.30pm to 10.00pm and the Boat Shed Lawn (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) will be 8.00pm to 9.30pm. These dates and times may be subject to change later in the year.   

Last year’s application process to perform in the festival was very successful, with over 150 applications received. If you wish to be considered as part of the performance schedule in the festival this year, please send us a letter of application which includes all of the following details:

• Name
• Phone number and email address for the main contact
• Number of band members
• Music genre - covers and/or original work
• Fee expectation for a 90minute performance
• Availability during the festival dates
• A sound bite of your music – CD, DVD or link to a YouTube (or similar) clip
• Also as part of the selection process we may wish to see your band perform live, so it would be helpful to give us dates of any gigs you may have coming up over the next couple of months.  

Please note that if you apply to perform at the festival this year, there is no guarantee that your group will be allocated a slot. The number of groups interested in performing in the festival is growing rapidly every year; many performers will have to miss out. This year the selection process again includes input from a small advisory group who will be assisting with the review of the applications and making recommendations around the selection of performers.

Please send your application to:

Email: carringtona@npdc.govt.nz
or

Postal address:

Anna Carrington

New Plymouth District Council

Civic Centre, Liardet Street

New Plymouth, 4342

 
Applications will close on Friday 26 July 2013 at 5.00pm. The final line up will probably not be decided until mid to late August – please bear with us as we go through the programming process.

It's all about the boys
Taranaki Daily News 25/01/13

Thousands of people packed New Plymouth's Bowl of Brooklands for last night's Festival of the Lights event that featured boys, boys and more boys.

Boys @ the Bowl attracted a crowd of more than 8000 dominated by teenaged girls.

Waitara High School band The Spice Boys opened the night and got the crowd moving with their mix of original songs and covers of artists including Stevie Wonder, Kora, Six60 and Fat Freddy's Drop.

Auckland's DJ Sir-Vere kept the energy levels up as the crowd waited for the act they had all come to see, New Zealand's own boy band Titanium.

An ear-piercing squeal reverberated around the amphitheatre as TK, Haydn, Zac, Jordi, Shaq and Andrew took to the stage.

New Plymouth's Mikayla Payne, 15, said she'd been looking forward to seeing the teenage heart-throbs.

"They are real cool and good singers," she said.

Ania Mainwaring, 15, said Titanium were a great band.

Hands were waved in the air, faces went red with excitement and the big crowd gathered at the edge of the lake all moved as one as the group went through its set.

The Highly Flammable Pyro/Fire show finished the night with a bang.