The Heineken Open Baseline After Party is once again set to be the grand finale to a week of great tennis with the announcement of headline acts The Phoenix Foundation and Barnaby Weir.
HEADLINE ACTS ANNOUNCED
Progressive six-piece rock indie band The Phoenix Foundation launched their album ‘Buffalo’ earlier this year after having been awarded ‘Best Group’ at the 2010 NZ Music Awards.
Joining Wellington’s intelligent and infectiously catchy band The Phoenix Foundation, will be fellow talented Wellingtonian artist Barnaby Weir. The former Black Seeds front man has taken a step to the side, taking the spotlight with him, and is set to bring to life songs from his first solo album ‘Tarot Card Rock’.
Heineken Brand Manager, Mike Stribrny says “Now in its fourth year, the Heineken Open Baseline After Party is a fixture of the early January social calendar as a great way to ease into the New Year and celebrate a week of great tennis. The Heineken bean bags are perfect for chilling out in the afternoon sun, enjoying a cold Heineken and listening to some awesome kiwi bands. We’re rapt to have The Phoenix Foundation and Barnaby Weir joining our celebration in the sun and we’re just negotiating a couple more acts to play on the night. Watch this space.”
The Heineken Baseline After Party kicks off as soon as the 2012 Heineken Open final presentation ends on January 14th.
Heineken Baseline After Party ticket holders can enter the ASB Tennis Centre at the start of play and enjoy the final match on the back courts. The matches are played out on mega screens so no one misses out on the on-court action and everyone is in prime position for when the party gets started.
Music fans can purchase a standalone Heineken Open After Party ticket for just $30 from www.ticketek.co.nz.
You can also register for ‘Your Heineken Passport’ at www.heineken.com/nz for the chance to win the ultimate 2012 Heineken Open prize pack.
BAND BIO’S
The Phoenix Foundation:
Heralding from Wellington, The Phoenix Foundation are a band in the truest sense: six members each bringing their own unique skills to a musical collective responsible for producing some of New Zealand’s finest music of recent years.
From intelligent and infectiously catchy pop/rock gems, to epic, psychedelic prog rock, The Phoenix Foundation’s music is a glorious pop polyglot: sunbleached harmonies, chiming guitars, progressive synthscapes and subliminal rhythms, combined at the service of consistently high-grade songwriting, yet the result never sounds like anyone else.
With lyrics stemming from the pens of vocalists/guitarists Samuel Flynn Scott and Luke Buda, their songs walk a musical tight wire of creativity. Slung between romance and absurdity, their music can move you to tears, make you laugh out loud, or whisk you away into another world, without ever losing its poise.
Barnaby Weir Bio:
After a decade as the musical maverick leading The Black Seeds, creating and navigating the vaudeville circus that is Fly My Pretties, Barnaby Weir has taken a step to the side, taking the spotlight with him to release his first solo album ‘Tarot Card Rock’.
” He’s become one of our most talented songwriters and musicians. Tarot Card Rock is the full deck. The title track is one of the best things he’s done… a solo debut to savour often”. Dominion Post
Weir’s creamy country rock with an American Roots base is an eclectic sound sensation by a kiwi boy, shaped by his travels, his relationships and life in Wellington, New Zealand. This is just Barnaby, striped back with his own agenda, playing with a straight bat.