The Rhythm Roady - North Island Pt1.

Well the Rhythm Roady has wrapped up for its first North Island leg and what a week it was!

After calling through Hawkes Bay from Wellington we woke up lake side Taupo in our Jucy Rental van. We made ourselves known at the backpackers around town with our flyers and bumper stickers before we set off to Rotorua, stopping on the way to hide a Golden Ticket at Huka Falls.

That afternoon we were well looked after by James and the team at Rotorua Canopy Tours, zipping high across the forest and native flora and fauna below us. What an experience! Then it was on to set up our campsite on a friends lawn, testing out the bells and whistles of our Jucy Condo. Our busy day of travel and adventures finished with a a relaxing soak in the Polynesian Spa.

We awoke to another big day of adventures up on the luge, the giant swing and finally another zipline that took us to speeds of 100 km/ph with views over Rotorua. We tried to fit in the Zorb but it was just too busy with tourists and backpackers lining up to experience all the wild adventures tourism Rotorua had to offer.

The crew at 15b Greensboro St in Hamilton hosted the 'Rhythm Roady Refuel' that Thursday night, and we made a sizable punch or ‘Jungle Juice’ for the occasion. Noize Radio DJ’s smashed out the hits as dozens of ‘Wai Kat’ students settled in for a memorable flat party.

Check out some of our antics here - Rhythm Roady Recap Video!

An early start at drive towards Auckland. Was a bit of culture shock cruising the streets of trendy Ponsonby after such a rough and ready tour of NZ’s heartland. We picked up our tickets for Our House tickets from the Remix crew and kitted ourselves out in new ilabb festival merch. We were pumped to see Skrillex, Steve Aoki, What So Not and others destroy the d-floor at Mt Smart. Skrillex even dropped our Roady theme song as his final track!

By Saturday the weekend had well and truly begun and after a solid breakfast we did some flyer-ing at the Grey Lynn Festival before heading down to our new event ‘Britomart 

Rhythm Club‘ held at the BCC. This will be a weekly event bringing some day time shenanigans and international DJ’s to the CBD.

By Sunday it was sad to break the band up but it had been a busy week.  Stay tuned for the next instalment, after a short pitstop and catch up on sleep we will be back on the road!