LOSERPALOOZA 2025 - Fundraising Festival for Lifeline NZ
As a teenager, I, like so many of us, struggled with my emotions, not knowing how to express or control them. Luckily I found solace in music: listening, collecting, playing, performing and watching. Sometimes I look back and think that without finding music, my teenage years could have played out very differently. Music, and especially bands, gave me an emotional grounding that I wouldn’t have otherwise found. When I couldn’t articulate myself mentally or verbally I could always find resonance through songs. This gave me a level of serenity and peace that prevented my thoughts spiraling in such a manner that would or could have lead me to darker places.
As I aged and further developed my addiction to music, I no longer wanted to just be a listener but to be able to bare myself playing my own songs as well. Playing my own music, not only allowed entry into an exciting new world of like minded people, but enabled me to express myself in ways I could never have otherwise. It helped me find my true self and to this day listening to, playing, performing music is how I best regulate myself.
This is something all us losers do or should do. Whether as fans or musicians we have gravitated towards this kind of music for the same reason. It makes us stronger. Whether teenaged and still battling the worst of our insecurities, young adults lost in existential crises, middle aged and morose, old aged and withering - music is the thing that keeps us going.
I couldn’t be more proud and pleased to know all you losers wherever you are on your loser timeline. We are bonded by this style of music we love. And so, I am pleased to announce the 2025 annual meeting of losers everywhere to once again come to Totara Street on the 21st June 2025 from 12pm to 12am for the 8th annual Loserpalooza. Koha entry and all proceeds go to Lifeline Aotearoa to aid in their incredible efforts in suicide awareness and prevention.
Because not every loser has a community like ours, some do get left behind unfortunately. Please give generously!
* Unfortunately, Totara Street is a licensed venue so those under the age of 18 will only be able to attend until 7pm with their legal guardian.
Featuring:
Stunt Clown
Two Skinner
Grown Downz
Skonk
Sewerside Rats
The Slaying Seas
Hoick
Carrion Bride
Somacaine
False Waltons
Dead Simple
This is How We Die
Not Exact
Eddie and the Dreamers
We Will Ride Fast
Dead Empire
Talismer
Cost of Living
The Beatnik Staffs
Token Ceremony
Crate of Chaos
The-Foamies
Punktuation
Threat.Meet.Protocol
Poster by Mitchell Shannon and Edward Gains.
For Anna and all those lost before their time….
KOHA ENTRY ON THE DOOR
