Join us for a showcase of experimental and underground LGBTQIA musicians. Tamaki Makaurau’s experimental music scene is rich with diverse performers that are often disconnected from the mainstream queer community events due to the nature of their art. On Saturday 3 February 2024 Loud and Proud will showcase a hand-picked selection some of our best experimental, underground, and “out-there” LGBTQIA musicians, across the spectrums of gender, sexuality, and genre, under the sun and the moon, at consecutive locations around Karangahape Road. Festival passes are $30 waged and $25 unwaged. Please exercise honesty when you purchase your ticket to support the musicians.
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P.H.F
SEQUENTIA
WETSTAR
SYNTHETIC CHILDREN (Palmerston North)
O/PUS
CODES
ROY IRWIN
HASJI + FERN + CITACSY + AARON LONGVILLE
JESS ROBINSON
BABY ZIONOV
KRAUS
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PROGRAMME
2:00 – 5:00PM – PITT STREET METHODIST CHURCH DEEP LISTENING with
Jess Robinson
Roy Irwin
Hasji + Fern + Citacsy + Aaron Longville
5:00PM – 8:00PM AUDIO FOUNDATION TENNIS COURT SAUSAGE SIZZLE with
Kraus
Baby Zionov
8:00PM – 3:00AM – WHAMMY BAR PARTY PARTY PARTY with
Codes
O/Pus
Wetstar
Synthetic Children
P.H.F
Sequentia

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Previously Loud and Proud happened at The Audio Foundation in 2019, 2020 and 2021, organised by Ary Jansen, Aaliyah Zionov and Alexandra Stone who have handed over the reins to Tash van Schaardenburg (Citacsy/Outlier Festival) to bring back the festival for Auckland Pride 2024.
This event was made possible through the Pride & Spark Empowerment Initiative. Thanks!

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ARTIST BIOS

Jess Robinson

Jess Robinson is a sound artist, composer, performer and acoustics engineer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Her practice includes digital musical instrument design, algorithmic composition, and improvisation. She is interested in investigating relationships between players, instruments, and spaces.
https://jessicarobnson.bandcamp.com/track/landing

Roy Irwin

In the King of Pop crown, Roy Irwin is a rare and mysterious figure. We feel rather blessed to have coaxed one of Tāmaki Makaurau’s finest songwriting talents out of their Demon’s Cave to the stage. Roy is one of those souls whose songs can make the heaviest themes feel like a soft embrace – handing down melodies like a path to follow out of the dark. Ultimately the irresistible guitar lines will probably get stuck in your head for days to come.
https://royirwin.bandcamp.com/

Kraus (DJ Set)

Kraus is a producer of psychedelic music. His singular and eclectic work embraces a wide range of influences from early electronic music, Japanese folk, psychedelic rock, and medieval and Renaissance music. His recent work has been characterised by minimal and hypnotic synthesizer pieces, with his latest, “Fire! Water! Air! Kraus!”, released in October 2022 on Soft Abuse Records. Kraus is one of those exceptional artists that seems to be a universal inspirerer of musicians around the country. Notably through his music and peripheral practices Pat exudes a passion for democratisation of music production and view of creative work as a fundamental human need, and has quietly and gently fostered marginalised voices through his work as a queer, disabled artist for longer than we can remember.
https://kraussss.bandcamp.com/music

Baby Zionov
It feels real special to have former Loud and Proud organiser Aaliyah Zionov back to grace the stage at Loud and Proud 2024. Baby Zionov’s music takes influence from 90s happy hardcore, 70s space disco, and vintage 16-bit video game soundtracks. Her debut album ‘Henrietta’ through Sunreturn records is a love letter to music that captured her imagination with she was a gay teenage shut-in digging through the depths of internet music fan blogs and communities all day, nowadays whether she’s whipping a dancefloor into a bubbly frenzy or ripping it up playing an actual balloon into the microphone, Baby Zionov is a scene staple through the experimental venues to the club, capturing hearts with sounds that ooze with joyful love and playful sensuality.
https://babyzionov.bandcamp.com/album/henrietta-4

CODES

CODES have sought out and dredged up a selection of tunes that most people had never considered as queer but when looked at in a different light and with a little background are clearly queer as f**k. From blues tunes from the twenties written by queer men and sung by queer women (who would suspect that?) to the sentimental strains of country repurposed for twisted queer agendas, it was there all along. Intermingled through all of this will be CODES original music. Post punk funk played by jazz musicians obsessed by queer sub space messaging concealed in the day to day.
https://www.instagram.com/codestheband/

Wetstar

Still prior to meaningful manifestation in our sonic world, without clear definition or comprehension, WET STAR is the newest of Lucía Mañetto-Munro’s musical iterations; intended as a culmination of her previous work across myriad genre and sound design palettes under monikers including DJ SWEAT, Ages Powerflip, Holk Hogon and Luser (her project with long-term collaborator and dear friend Fraser Hunter [doobiescoo, Fray Mysterio, Clever Calvin, Big Frendly, Heroes For Sale]), WET STAR represents the turning of a new leaf for the artist. A fresh start, a breaking from tethers old, an emergence of something new; a star is born.
https://wet-star.bandcamp.com/track/vision-of-my-man

https://agespowerflip.bandcamp.com/album/afternoon-show
https://badleygang.bandcamp.com/album/laminate
https://tubertechno.bandcamp.com/track/dj-sweat-drag
https://indexrecords.bandcamp.com/track/polystyrene

Synthetic Children

Synthetic Children is a hardware electronic and poetry project from te Papaioea. Branching out from earlier ambient techno and idm sounds; Synthetic Children is 2 stepping into brooding cuts of dubstep, post-jungle, and footwork. The unsettling queer soundscape heavily inspired by Sophie remains, unfurling underneath the rumbling bass. Disparate vocal samples, and occasional spoken word passages bring a dysphoric consciousness to the project. This is a sound heavily shaped by Te Papaioea’s hottest rave den: Tautai Tiny Tinyclub where Cee is matron, nurturing new DJs and artists out of the shadows of the Palmerston North underground, holding space for trans and queer artists to blossom when she’s off-the-clock as Radio Control’s programme director. Always keeping it dark, DIY, and vaguely danceable.
https://syntheticchildren.bandcamp.com/

O/pus
Below the thunders of the upper deep, O/pus (it’s pronounced oops) are Jade Farley (Pumice), Stefan Neville (Pumice), Ducklingmonster (Octopus), and Liz Mathews (Octopus). A band of Tāmaki punks waiting for high tide.
stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com

P.H.F
P.H.F. is the recording project of Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, NZ) songwriter and producer Joe Locke. Locke’s music is difficult to categorise in terms of genre: “With P.H.F. I want people that listen to it to feel like they’re being held,” says Locke, “or if you feel like shit, hopefully this makes you feel a little better. “By focusing on the pain, boredom, and joy of the everyday, Locke’s songwriting strikes a difficult balance between the universally familiar and the poignantly personal. Locke uses musical experimentation as a way to process grief, incorporating shredding guitar, careening breakbeat chops, and heavy electronics.
https://perfecthairforever.bandcamp.com/

Hasji + Citacsy + Aaron Longville + Fern + Ruby Walsh