The second Earthtonz New Year's Eve music festival in the Gibbston valley may be shifted forward a week to avoid competing with the Queenstown waterfront and bar festivities.
Despite this summer's inaugural outing making a loss, with just under 2000 of the 10,000 tickets sold, festival producer Dan Allen last month confirmed it would return at the end of 2012.
Speaking this week from his home in Missouri, United States, Mr Allen said the discussions held so far about the festival's future showed there was potential for a date shift.
"[New Year's Eve] this year fell on a Saturday night and everyone was in town .. so we are thinking about doing it on the Friday and Saturday the week before so we do not have to compete." Mr Allen said he and the other organisers were starting to talk about the acts they hoped to attract, which would include a handful of big New Zealand names "and a few big acts on the international music scene".
While it would keep its focus mainly on dance music, they would look to diversify into other genres.
"We really considered doing that this last year, but since we didn't start calling acts until June we are obviously way ahead of the game this year."
International acts last time included Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) and DJ Aero, The Crystal Method, the Freestylers, DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill), Kraak and Smaak, AK 1200/DJ Dara/MC Messinian (Planet of the Drums), Boombox, Ana Sia, Heatbox and Kiwi band Minuit.
