Founded by Austin Cunningham and his promotion company, Tauranga Music Sux, the Woodcock Festival is an annual celebration of the local DIY music scene.
Barracks' Jud Ipsen performing at Woodcock. Photo: Photo by Chris O’Donnell
With the event in its third year, Music 101 contributor Frank Eggleton, on the bill with his band, Kittentank, travelled to the festival to meet this community of musicians living behind a veil of self-deprecation and find out whether there is a ring of truth lying behind the "Tauranga Music Sux" name.
