Pumpkinhead, Swallow The Rat, Buzz – Mothership: October 9, 2025
Pumpkinhead, the Otautahi, 90’s metal, punk nee grunge group, were a relatively short-lived affair, 1993 to 1996 (though there were the brief reunions in 2007, 2008 & 2021).
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Imperial Triumphant + Cold Ceiling, No Exit & Windswept -Mothership: June 13, 2025
Imperial Triumphant. Formed in New York (where they like Jazz) by Zachary Ezrin in 2005, avant garde, experimental, even transcendental in nature, Imperial Triumphant have in their rua decades of existence, edged the Black Metal genre out of the dark ages, into an intellectual realm that the vapid have revilled against, while the valorous have […]
Announced and On Sale – Imperial Triumphant
Imperial Triumphant announce exclusive headline show on Friday 13 June, Mothership, Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau
Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 – Mothership: January 4, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Labretta Suede and The Motel 6 come home to celebrate 20 years of dirty, filthy rock & roll and a new album titled Home For The Incurable.
Loves Ugly Children – The Mothership: August 22, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Loves Ugly Children rose from the dead to treat Auckland music lovers to their first show in 27 years.
Loves Ugly Children Are Back! But For How Long? – 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Loves Ugly Children split up in 1998 after a blistering run of singles, EPs and Albums and live shows throughout the Nineties. Against all the odds, they are back.
EYEHATEGOD, Caldera & Slumbug – Mothership: July 31, 2024
EYEHATEGOD are an originator band from the “Louisiana Sound” metal music scene (NOLA) heavily influenced by Black Sabbath and The Melvins, but energised (perhaps politicised) by hardcore punk, think Black Flag.
LOVES UGLY CHILDREN are reuniting for ONE SHOW ONLY in Auckland!!!
The deeply emotive raw power that New Zealand’s Loves Ugly Children brought to international fans throughout the 1990’s – is back.
Cosmic Psychos – The Mothership: November 19, 2023
The Cosmic Psychos are the legendary antithesis of The Birthday Party, where The Boys Next Door went fucking arty (as TBP), the Spring Plains (TCP earlier incarnation) went ‘fuck this arty shit’ and the motor-cituy guitar-driven punk sound that has stayed forever with The Cosmic Psychos was born.
Cockney Rejects – Mothership: February 6, 2023
Cockney Rejects wasted no time on stage as they blasted out a classic British punk show, undiminished in its power and glory even after forty-plus years.