STACK NZ Dec #69

NEWS

EXTRAS

IT’S SHOWTIME! New shows, plus old faves renewed.

The US network recently unveiled the first image from the third season from the gothic fantasy Penny Dreadful , which will be aired in 2016. Pictured above are star Eva Green and Patti LuPone, who joined the show for the second season, which is out this month on DVD and Blu-ray. Showtime has also revealed a January start date in the US for the sixth season of the raunchy family drama Shameless and has also confirmed fourth seasons for two other popular shows, Masters Of Sex and Ray Donovan . And the cable outfit also has some intriguing new productions in the pipeline, starting with Billions , which premieres Stateside in January and stars Damian Lewis as a charismatic billionaire hedge fund operator and Paul Giamatti as a politically-connected US attorney. Showtime has also greenlit Roadies , a comedy/ drama created by Cameron Crowe, which will offer an insider’s look at a backstage crew for a fictional stadium rock band. The all star cast is headed by Luke Wilson and Carla Gugino, plus Imogen Poots, Rafe Spall and our own Keisha Castle-Hughes.

Chvrches

SUMMER STARTS HERE Live music fans are spoilt for choice this summer, with several brand new festivals joining some returning old favourites for the holiday season.

A s usual, the Summer – and the New Year – will be kicked off with the Rhythm & Vines Festival (together with its South Island companion Rhythm & Alps inWanaka), which will once again be held December 29–31 at Waiohika Estate, Gisborne. This year’s line-up includes the likes of Mac Miller, Nero and Pendulum, plus local favourites such as Dave Dobbyn, P-Money, PNC and Scribe. Auckland had been

Park, 70km south of Auckland. Headliners this year include dance veterans Leftfield, Nightmare OnWax and the Dub Pistols, indie folkyWaxahatchee – aka Katie Crutchfield – and Aussie funkmeisters Hiatus Kaiyote, plus popular local draws like Katchafire. However, this year’s festival clashes with another popular Summer live event Raggamuffin, which is on February 20 at

TheTrusts Arena inWest Auckland and boasts an impressive line-up of reggae and urbans acts – The Game, Beenie Man, Bitty McLean, House Of Eddy Grant, Maxi Priest, Inner Circle and more. However, the big new event on the live calendar is the inaugural Auckland City Limits, which is modeled on the Austin, Texas, event and will be held at Western Springs on March 19. The full line-up was still to be announced at press time but hip hop superstar Kendrick Lamar, The National,

set to get a new two day event, the Echo Festival, but that was cancelled as STACK was going to press because of slow ticket sales. However, flying the flag once again for the indies will be the Laneways Festival, which returns to Silo Park – for a final year?– on Auckland Anniversary Day, which this year falls on February 1. There is a distinctly

Penny Dreadful: The Complete Second Season is out on December 2.

Kendrick Lamar

alt-dance vibe to the 2016 bill, with headline acts including spiky US electronica icons Battles, Scottish favourite Chvrches, jazz funk virtuosoThundercat, rising rap star Vince Staples and Canadian indie electro popsters Purity Ring. Local acts to look out for, meanwhile, include singer-songwriter Nadia Reid and reformed Flying Nun noise terrorists High Dependency Unit. Another returning Auckland festival is Splore, which this year runs February 19-21 and will once again be held at Tapapakanga

Houndsmouth, Che Fu andThe Crates, Cold War Kids, The Naked andThe Famous and The Phoenix Foundation among the first wave of acts confirmed. Unfortunately, there is another clash, with music fans having to choose between Auckland City Limits and the annual WOMAD festival in New Plymouth, which runs March 18-20. The line-up for the latter is headed up by John Grant, De La Soul and St Germain, plus a host of world music acts and homegrown bands.

Kiwi horror maestro Ant Timpson is continuing to spread his wings outside New Zealand. This month sees the DVD and Blu-ray release of Turbo Kid , a fun homage to the apocalypse movies of the 80s, which is a co-production between Timpson Films, the Canadian production house EMA Films and the US’s Epic Pictures. And next year, keep an eye out for the wonderfully titled The Greasy Strangler , a US horror comedy, executive produced by Timpson, Elijah Wood and cult British director Ben Wheatley. Turbo Kid is out on December 9

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