“Camp a low hum” is a small alternative music festival in New Zealand. It has been held on Waitangi weekend for the past 3 year.
Each one has been held in a different old school camp out in the lush forest near Wellington. There are only about 800 people (bands and fans) who attend and most people camp…. us lucky bands get crusty old bunk rooms… but with the collective understanding that you can sleeps loads when you’re dead there is not much use for the beds anyway.
The music is mostly underground arty bands and performers from across all of NZ, with a few Australian Americans and European acts thrown in the barrel this year.
The main man behind it all is an inspiring independent music champion called Blink…. his plan was to create the compete antithesis to all the horrible corporate music festivals we subject ourselves to… with massive crowds, burly security, crap bands, back stage passes and lack of toilets.
A lot of the success of this festival is purely based on trust between Blink, the bands and the audience looking out for each other. Blinks only rule at camp is “don’t be a dick”
None of the bands are announced to the public before the festival nor paid to be there… and anyone can even put on secret shows in the middle of the bush by taking a generator out there, making some posters in the arts and crafts room (seriously!!) to put around camp and then making the party happen!
i’m getting so excited just writing about it that my thoughts are racing faster than my fingers can type. check out www.campalowhum.co.nz to hear more about
here are some photos
sets
golden axe and disaster radio
eeej and cec
louise ceci and ej
ryan and i… merry
elroy
family cactus coming over for funnels
ceci
lagoon partay!
dan and emily
sam and nina
funnel, peter, beer hat and sam
renegade room
no drum sticks
broken glass on snare drum + ryan playing with hands `= cool scar
kim and thanaa
amee and i
banana and chicken on motorbike
family cactus and mighty mighty fire work
new zealands next top weather man Peter Crabb
Blink
thanaa sean and i with blue
dansey
box wars
fishnchips
spoon train
