{"id":579866,"date":"2026-08-25T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579866\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:00:18","slug":"laneway-shifts-nz-date-off-long-weekend-for-western-springs-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579866\/","title":{"rendered":"Laneway shifts NZ date off long weekend for Western Springs finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laneway Festival will close its 2027 tour at Auckland&#8217;s Western Springs on February 21, shifting the New Zealand date clear of a long weekend and handing the country the finale for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Auckland show lands a fortnight after Waitangi Day, which falls on February 6 in 2027, and pushes the festival into the tail end of the summer calendar rather than the long-weekend slot Kiwi audiences have come to expect.<\/p>\n<p>It will run across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/29\/auckland-stadium-being-reborn-as-western-springs-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Western Springs Bowl and Western Springs Park<\/a>, with organisers pointing to the venue&#8217;s recent refurbishment.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Laneway Festival was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/18\/pop-superstar-chappell-roan-to-headline-laneway-in-auckland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">headlined by US popstar Chappell Roan<\/a>, with appearances from UK songstress Pinkpantheress and homegrown talent like BENEE.<\/p>\n<p>The full lineup will not be announced until late September. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson described it as &#8220;a mix of the most exciting new and established artists from around the globe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Laneway has historically been held on an Auckland long weekend, until the 2025 and 2026 edition moved to Waitangi weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Laneway Festival made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2024\/12\/20\/laneway-to-refund-under-18s-after-application-rejected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">late call to cancel entry to under-18s<\/a>, despite already selling tickets to thousands of concertgoers aged 16 and 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laneway Festival will close its 2027 tour at Auckland&#8217;s Western Springs on February 21, shifting the New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-579866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579866","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=579866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}