9pm May 30th: Refuel, Dunedin feat. The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band, An Emerald City, DJ Balkanetic and Haunted Love. $10/8 doorsales only

Free ticket if you buy the album from Real Groovy, Dunedin.

The Monkey Magic traveling circus is coming to Dunedin and we’re very privileged to be having local support from gothic popsters Haunted Love who also feature on the compilation.

Monkey Magic II is a specially priced CD and DVD celebrating contemporary independent New Zealand music to be released on the 19th May.

10 of the tracks on the CD are from artists signed to genre-defying indie record label Monkey Records including Tim Guy, The Hot Grits, An Emerald City, The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band and Káren Hunter. Also featured are four unsigned artists who are friends of the label: Haunted Love, Steve Abel, The Mamaku Project and Ragamuffin Children.

The DVD features all 14 of the the music videos made by Monkey Records since the year 2000 featuring some of New Zealand’s most talented emerging filmmakers and animators. Only one was funded by NZ on Air despite some 40+ applications over the past seven years.

While perhaps not considered that commercially viable by the powers that be, independent radio has embraced and supported many of these artists. The Hot Grits recently enjoyed several weeks at no.1 on student radio bFM. ‘Werewolf’ by Haunted Love was voted Radio One song of the Year last year and Cinema 90 by Onelung (here remixed by Sola Rosa) was the most played tune across the bNet for several weeks upon it’s release in May 2006.

As on the original critically acclaimed Monkey Magic compilation in 2004, this new selection continues to champion new and exciting music from Aotearoa and aims to introduce many of the artists featured to a wider audience In New Zealand and further afield. Many thanks to Creative New Zealand for their continuing support of Monkey Records which helped make this compilation and tour possible.