While Rhythm and Vines dominate national news headlines with topless women getting groped and outbreaks of severe diarrhoea and vomiting - here on the west coast a new festival is making a different sort of noise.
On a South Taranaki farm in Manutahi around 100 festival-goers saw the New Year in at the debut of Rhythm and Pines.
Event organiser Tim Myers said it started out as a bit of a joke between him and his mates but once word got out things began to escalate and it turned out to be a real success.
"We always found New Years' overrated so we just decided we wouldn't go anywhere this time round and taking the piss I said why don't we just pitch some tents on my parents farm and call it Rhythm and Pines and next thing you know...."