MARINE BLUE SOCIAL CLUB

Saturday 14th November – Troy Kingi and MOKOMOKAI are bringing their acclaimed new collaboration Marine Blue Social Club for an EP release show at the Mill, with support from DJ SPELL – this is going to be an epic gig of hip hop, soul, blues and psychedelic sounds.

Troy Kingi and MOKOMOKAI are bringing their acclaimed new collaboration MarineBlue Social Club for an EP release show with us! and you!
The project marks the first EP between two of Aotearoa’s musical forces, multi-award-winning, multi-genre Māori artist Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) and Māori hip-hop trio MOKOMOKAI (MANU, DUSTY & GHOS) who claimed the Best Hip Hop Artist Award at the 2026 Aotearoa Music Awards.

Marine Blue Social Club takes its name from two distinct but connected musical reference points. “Marine Blue” nods to a Biggie Smalls freestyle and “Social Club” pays homage to Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club and the spirit of communal creativity.

As long-term friends, the collaboration has been building for more than five years. DUSTY explains,
“This was something that we wanted to do since the first MOKOM...