Auckland’s Spark Arena will be alive with drum and bass, metal and r’n’b performances by acts vying for this year’s gongs.
There was a time when the New Zealand Music Awards (Three, Thursday, 8.30pm) were handed out in humdrum hotel ballrooms in front of a couple of hundred record company reps, retailers and – if they were lucky – musicians. These days, they’re an annual spectacle at Auckland’s largest indoor arena and the bands arrive to a red-carpet welcome.
This will be the 15th year of the awards’ partnership with MediaWorks and the fourth year that the event will go out live on Three. All seven live performances will be televised.
Of particular note: Che Fu and the Krates’ tribute performance to this year’s Legacy Award honorees, Upper Hutt Posse. New Zealand’s spiky, rebellious original rap act have never been part of the mainstream but, says Recorded Music New Zealand chief Damian Vaughan, that’s not what the award is about.
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