BIGSOUND Live: Night One Industry Picks

With 140 bands playing across the two BIGSOUND nights, there's plenty to choose from (and plenty to keep your eye on following the event). 

Compare your notes with what the industry experts saw...

Bad//Dreems — Steve Smyth (artist)

Orphan Orphans — JP Fung (producer)

Blank Realm, Bad//Dreems — Dan Condon (Double J)

Spookyland — Jane Tyrrell (artist)

Jane Tyrrell — Colin Daniels (Inertia)

Teeth & Tongue — Shane O'Donohue (The Mushroom Group)

Steve Smyth, DD Dumbo — Sally Gilbert (Groovin' The Moo)

Thelma Plum, DMA's — Kathryn Holloway (Groovin' The Moo)

Ruby Boots, Brad Butcher, Karl S Williams — Luke O'Shea (artist)

Teeth & Tongue — Cath Anderson (NZ Music Commission)

Okanu — Ben Preece (Mucho Bravado)

Apes, Marlon Williams — Julie Warrington (Rhythm & Vines Festival)

Blank Realm, Baptism Of Uzi — Dylan Pellett (Independent Music New Zealand)

Banoffee, George Maple — Michael Szumowski (Alberts)

Okenyo — Ben Preece (Mucho Bravado)

"no comment" — Tim Janes (Caroline)

Kingswood — Heath Bradby (Warner)

DD Dumbo — Jess Beston (Tiny Monster)

Rolls Boyce — Maree Nardone (Alberts)

Yeo — The Pierce Brothers

Step-Panther — Alex Cameron (Bad//Dreems)