Emerging Kiwi songstress Cassie Henderson has just found her name in the same sentence as Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Six60.
Cassie’s song Seconds to Midnight was too good to miss.
For the young star, hearing her hit song alongside the biggest songs of the year - and opening and closing the soundtrack with two much-loved Kiwi anthems - will be a pinch-me moment this New Year’s Eve in Auckland.
Seven songs make up the ‘midnight moment’ soundtrack, put together by MediaWorks to synchronise with the Vector Lights lightshow on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and SkyCity’s fireworks display from the SkyTower.
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is the first major international city to welcome in the New Year and people will enjoy watching from vantage points all around the city.
Aucklanders can livestream the audio on MoreFM 91.8fm or online at vector.co.nz/lights. A livestream video of Vector Lights can also be watched online at facebook.com/vectornz.
The mix of seven songs bringing in 2025 are:
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Cassie Henderson – Seconds to Midnight
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Shapeshifter - Electric Dream
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Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
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Coldplay – feelslikeimfallinginlove / A Sky Full Of Stars remix
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Dua Lipa - Training Season
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Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
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Six60 - Kia Mau Ki Tō Ūkaipō / Don't Forget Your Roots
For all details about where to watch, road closures, transport, and how to stay safe if you decide to travel into the city centre, please visit OurAuckland.
Sky Tower Fireworks
The five-minute and 30-second-long Sky Tower fireworks display, which is the highest in the Southern Hemisphere, will start with a 10-second countdown projected onto the base of the tower. Following this, 500 kgs of pyrotechnics will be launched from three purpose-built firing sites mounted onto levels 55, 61 and 64 of the Sky Tower (200-240M above ground.)
Planning of the fireworks display started six months ago, with pre-production and programming of the firing field computers and address signal boxes. The installation of the equipment required for the big event will take 250+ hours and includes 14 kilometres of electrical cabling and wiring and 1500 lines of programming code.
Photo Credit: Skycity Entertainment Group.
Vector Lights
90,000 colour-changing LEDs on the Auckland Harbour Bridge, as well as 100 spotlights under the roadway, will blackout before a pulsing effect counts down to the new year from 10-seconds to midnight. A dynamic and colourful display will burst on the bridge for the next five minutes and will replay every 15 minutes; last showing at 1.00am.
Vector Lights has been installed on the harbour bridge since 2018, showcasing Vector’s smart energy technology and innovation. 248 solar panels situated in Wynyard Quarter generate energy that is then stored in a Tesla Powerpack (battery) at the Jellicoe Street Car Park. Smart meters at the battery site and on the bridge relay data between each other every 10-seconds, ensuring the energy used to power Vector Lights is released back into the energy grid (peer-to-peer system).
Due to critical maintenance work by NZTA, some of Vector Lights will not appear on the west side overarch of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Completion of the work is expected by 31 March 2025.
