It really was a little bit like being back on Hood St, except the kids were there too.<\/p>\n
A few of them had even made their own signs, getting into the whole music fan experience early.<\/p>\n
Some of the song highlights for the 7-year-olds in our group were, of course, Golden and the classic YMCA, while some of the older kids loved Lush Life and Shake It Off.<\/p>\n
Ten-year-old Tilly said, \u201cSuch great choices of songs, I loved everything. They even had costume changes and cool lights and lasers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nine-year-old Rory couldn\u2019t believe that the 10-year-old drummer, Indy, managed to remember all those songs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s so much talent and so impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
I love the idea of giving kids a proper live music experience, and Hamilton is so lucky to be the hometown of the band behind this cool concept.<\/p>\n
Drummer Indy was clearly a crowd favourite, with his skills earning plenty of attention from the kids around us.<\/p>\n
Another lovely touch was celebrating the birthday of Kahurangi Moses, the daughter of band member Brandan Moses, with the whole crowd joining in to sing Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n
It highlighted the family connection within the band and added to the warm, family atmosphere of the whole event.<\/p>\n
I was at the back with some of the mums from school, who were getting seriously into dancing.<\/p>\n
Our only note was that it would have been nice to be able to get a wine, but alas, we had fun anyway.<\/p>\n
The kids were jam-packed into the front mosh pit, so thankfully, they didn\u2019t even see our embarrassing dance moves.<\/p>\n
I can see Sonic Boom really taking off, and I was excited to see they have a line-up of gigs between now and the upcoming summer.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s such a cool idea: giving kids a proper concert experience that is also fun for parents to get involved in and jam along to.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll definitely be returning to a Sonic Boom gig. They might just need a bigger Hamilton venue next time!<\/p>\n
The Details<\/p>\n
What: Sonic Boom<\/p>\n
When: Saturday, August 8<\/p>\n
Where: Hamilton Gardens Pavilion<\/p>\n
Abby Dalgety is a researcher and senior academic at the School of Media Arts at Wintec in Hamilton. She has been writing reviews for Waikato Herald since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It really was a little bit like being back on Hood St, except the kids were there too.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[119361,16424,25759,277662,156,5988,6288,3594,1899,157,111,139,69,762,35299,32028,102],"class_list":["post-564288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-abby","tag-boom","tag-concert","tag-dalgety","tag-entertainment","tag-families","tag-hamilton","tag-hit","tag-kids","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-review","tag-reviewed","tag-sonic","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}