Cairo Knife Fight Concert History

Cairo Knife Fight (CKF) is a rock band originating from New Zealand, founded in 2007 by musician Nick Gaffaney . By 2009, it had evolved into a drum and guitar duo incorporating real-time layered loops.

Date Concert Venue Location
Jan 20, 2012
Big Day Out (Auckland)
"Big Day Out" (Auckland) / Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Soundgarden / Kasabian / My Chemical Romance / The Living End / Röyksopp / Battles / Girl Talk / Cage The Elephant / Tony Hawk / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Cut Off Your Hands / Gin Wigmore / David Dallas / Beastwars / Foster The People / Ghost Wave / Best Coast / Mayavanya / NERO / The Vaccines / BASSNECTAR / The Cavalera Conspiracy / Regurgitate / Kimbra / Parkway Drive / Midnight Youth / Das Racist / Six60 / Mt Eden / The Adults / I Am Giant / Cairo Knife Fight / Jakob / Bulletproof Show all bands
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Mount Smart Stadium Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand
Dec 13, 2011
Foo Fighters / Cairo Knife Fight / Fucked Up / Tenacious D
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Western Springs Stadium Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Oct 19, 2011
The Amcats / Death Letters / De Staat / Wild Palms / Cairo Knife Fight

CMJ Music Marathon

Local 269 New York, New York, United States
Oct 18, 2011 –
Oct 23, 2011
CMJ Music Marathon 2011
Gotye / Kendrick Lamar / The Wombats / Alabama Shakes / Metronomy / Kid Ink / Grimes / French Montana / Neon Indian / Purity Ring / Talib Kweli / We Are Scientists / CSS / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Twin Shadow / Gary Clark Jr. / Ziggy Marley / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / FIDLAR / Dragonforce / En Vogue / Body Language / Boy & Bear / Atlas Sound / Dum Dum Girls / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Yuksek / Lord Huron / Cloud Nothings / The Downtown Fiction / Gang Gang Dance / Action Bronson / The Summer Set / Active Child / Rachael Yamagata / Titus Andronicus / Miniature Tigers / Maino / Kill The Noise / Avant / JR JR / Givers / High Highs / Zola Jesus / Tanlines / Islands / Dom Kennedy / Joywave / Lisa Hannigan / Handsome Furs / Pharoahe Monch / Small Black / Datarock / Delilah / Wallpaper / Dry the River / Penguin Prison / Geographer / The Knocks / Chris Webby / Augustines / Friends / A Place to Bury Strangers / Tristen / Keegan DeWitt / Bikini / Art vs Science / The So So Glos / Talkdemonic / Yellow Ostrich / The Kin / Dom / States / Old Man Markley / Porcelain Raft / Data Romance / Battlecross / Parlovr / Free Energy / Netherfriends / Matthewdavid / Tombs / Rachael Sage / Peasant / EMA / Mexicans with Guns / Communist Daughter / Aunt Martha / Buckshot / Silver Medallion / The Men / T.A.T / The Spring Standards / Look Mexico / Spose / Brite Futures / A Lull / Dávila 666 / Ravens & Chimes / Big Sleep / Nina Sky / Cassette Kids / Elle Varner / Electra / Black Taxi / Cookies / N.Eako / Alex Winston / No-Man / Braids / Bosco Delrey / Wild Flag / Ski Lodge / Charlene Kaye / Lucius / Psychobuildings / Little Red / Gross Magic / Fred / Air Waves / Elk City / T. Mills / Wild Moccasins / Races / Class Actress / Firehorse / Weekend / Audacity / J Mascis / Zenzile / Is Tropical / Country Mice / Get People / The Front Bottoms / Warm Ghost / Idiot Glee / Shout Out Out Out Out / Zomby / The Doppelgangaz / We Barbarians / Tonstartssbandht / Willie Nile / Sunglasses / Teen Daze / The Forms / The Canon Logic / Rich Hil / The Barr Brothers / Pretty & Nice / Cheeseburger / AraabMuzik / Flashlights / Sophie Madeleine / Edelweiss / Naam / Robert Glasper / Guineafowl / Chicha Libre / Foe / Filligar / The Chapin Sisters / Crocodiles / Mahogany / Frankie Rose / Cameras / Still Corners / Three Bad Jacks / My Girl Friday / Anjulie / Jesse Ruben / The Suzan / The Duke Spirit / Soul Khan / Lydia / Emperor X / Memoryhouse / papercranes / Death / The Adventure / Alberta Cross / Sad Souls / Adam Arcuragi / Fionn Regan / Promise / Delta Rae / Peelander-Z / Starscream / Big Tree / Slow Animal / Chad Valley / Wild Palms / XXXChange / An Horse / Octoberman / Recover / The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Beat Connection / Dinosaur Bones / Sydney Wayser / Fierce Bad Rabbit / Pet Lions / Monogold / Emmy the Great / Kaiser Cartel / Motopony / Outernational / The Headless Horseman / Washington / The Lost Brothers / Shapes / Eleanor Friedberger / Guards / The Brother Kite / Buxton / José James / Abadabad / Lalah Hathaway / Fishboy / Sarah Jaffe / The Young Evils / Dignan / Parts and Labor / The High Dials / Kidz In the Hall / Codes / Echo / Widowspeak / Dysrhythmia / Plug In Stereo / Big Ups / Grand Pianoramax / Hopewell / Kate Miller-Heidke / L'altra / Torpedo Boyz / Yarn / Chelsea Wolfe / Blues Control / East of the Wall / You Say France & I Whistle / Noveller / Waters / The Airplane Boys / Balkans / Trip / Mieka Pauley / Nicole Atkins / The Hush Now / Bearstronaut / The Grates / The Photo Atlas / Freshkills / Dead Heart Bloom / Nick Jaina / Mutiny On the Bounty / Heloise & The Savoir Faire / The Japanese Popstars / Weird Owl / Casiokids / Ray Bonneville / Talk Normal / Millionyoung / Maya Azucena / Red Wire Black Wire / Cabinet / Jenny Owen Youngs / Kohwi / Zachary Cale / Caveman / Mux Mool / Holger / Suckers / Plus Minus / Behind Sapphire / Foreign Legion / Kvelertak / Chains of Love / Kylesa / Christopher Paul Stelling / Lightyear / Cosmo Jarvis / Palomar / Death Letters / Lemonade / Advaita / Alina Simone / Ed Schrader's Music Beat / Robert Kelly / Hey Marseilles / Savoir Adore / Barn Burner / Alice Smith / Bridges and Powerlines / Clubfeet / Gerald Walker / Julie Feeney / Ed Askew / White Fence / The Inspector Cluzo / Pete Tong / French Horn Rebellion / Prussia / Chappo / Lowe / Gabriel Rios / Mind The Gap / Skull / Faces On Film / Dead Leaf Echo / Army Navy / Baker / Bleached / Great Lakes / Tarantino / Dominique Leone / Lissy Trullie / Carnivores / Drop The Lime / Gauntlet Hair / The Great Book of John / Alvin Risk / Eternal Summers / Time Wharp / Arteries / Afternoon Naps / Revolver / Celestial Shore / Crystal Nicole / Tropical Popsicle / Blue Hawaii / The Wildbirds / Flatliners / Pepper Rabbit / The Yellow Dogs / Smif-N-Wessun / Fallulah / Gabriel and the Hounds / Lights Resolve / Charlotte Sometimes / American Babies / Destry / The Coppertone / The Clutters / Masters of the Hemisphere / Hindi Zahra / Setting Sun / Home Blitz / Xanopticon / Lunic / The Cringe / Funeral Suits / Cody B. Ware / Young Magic / Mouthpiece / Def Sound / The Foreign Resort / David Jacobs-Strain / Blonde Summer / Light Asylum / The Tron / Tes / Trash Talk / The Shondes / Doomtree / The Lonely Forest / Jean Grae / Jacuzzi Boys / Verse Simmonds / Sun Glitters / Jonquil / Skeletonwitch / Teengirl Fantasy / Bleeding Knees Club / ZaZa / U.S. Royalty / Experimental Dental School / Strand of Oaks / AC Slater / 1976 / Beast Make Bomb / Frontier Brothers / Cairo Knife Fight / Built By Animals / Great Elk / Gun Lake / The Tamborines / The Postelles / The Upwelling / Delicate Steve / DJ Wonder / appetite / DWNTWN / Esnavi / Deadbeat Darling / Apollo Run / Grandfather / Vita Chambers / Computer Magic / True Womanhood / Gem Club / ILLUMNTR / Barreracudas / The Parlotones / Blip Blip Bleep / Danny Ross / Seekae / Alan Hampton / Caithlin De Marrais / Dead Stars / Aaron Lee Tasjan / Exitmusic / Dels / Friend Roulette / Hollerado / Autodrone / The Dead Ships / Alex York / Locksley / Ben Von Wildenhaus / Elks / Ghost Ghost / Quilt / The Denzels / Laura Warshauer / Archeology / The Black Box Revelation / Careful / Ghastly City Sleep / Chapter 24 / Deas Vail / Dred Scott Trio / Make the Girl Dance / The Fucking Wrath / Dent May / 1, 2, 3 / Mother Feather / The Death Set / The Click Clack Boom / Wise Blood / Mike Birbiglia / Ac and Dell / Fresh Millions / Chateau Marmont / Foot / BNLX / Alyson Greenfield / The Dan Band / The Aviation Orange / Dead Sara / Gun Selectah / Japanther / The Great Apes / The Stone Foxes / Dawn Richards / Broadfield Marchers / Shonen Knife / Erin Barra / Miracle Fortress / Emily Greene / Family / Mice Parade / Atropolis / Before You Exit / Pomegranate / BeatauCue / Holiday Shores / Pictures of Then / Bobby / The Blue Pages / Forest Fire / Fredericks Brown / Brick + Mortar / Beatriz Azevedo / Anonymou$ / Galia Arad / Bearbabes / Doomsday Student / Conner Youngblood / Appomattox / The Common Loon / The Grownup Noise / Dear Comrade / Backwords / Grand Rapids / Ferrari Snowday / The Unstoppable Death Machines / Daniela Brooker / Ursa Minor / Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra / Dive / Aabaraki / Buvette / Endangered Speeches / Deep River / The Morning After Girls / The Golden Awesome / Avi Wisnia / Lluther / De Staat / Cassandra Jenkins / Anderson Council / Alfonso Velez / Turbo Fruits / Vockah Redu / Blum / Allison Park / Zulà / The Bright Light Social Hour / Shawn Chrystopher / Cinema Cinema / Sea of Bees / Jape / Dangermaker / Kgb / Emergency Service / Dear Lions / Trouble Andrew / Fan-Tan / Eureka California / Viva Brother / The Damn Personals / X-Ray Eyeballs / Psychic Ills / DJ Price / AnR / Andrew Keoghan / DJ Boo / Big Digits / The Bottom Dollars / The Reverend John DeLore / The Yes Way / Bryan Dunn / Shenandoah and the Night / Ninjasonik / The Brutes / Nina Nastasia / Gary Lucas And Gods And Monsters / Alex Wong / Craig Greenberg / Young Things / The Casualty Process / Flash to Bang Time / Arama Mara / Tall Ships / Grooveline / Adam Tensta / Gang Violets / The John Steel Singers / Emiko / King Fantastic / Dylan Trees / Bela Tar / The Pass / Christina Larocca / Alamo Race Track / Anthony Federov / Alternate Routes / Duniven / Dave P / Bezoar / Ex Cops / Close the Wounds / Pearl and the Beard / Deathrow Tull / Gangstagrass / Derek Nicoletto / Maluca / Cristina Black / Deon / Billy Libby / Cuckoo Chaos / Everest Cale / Evan Voytas / Of Earth / Automatic Children / Cerebral Ballzy / Aim Low / The Narrative / Union Street Preservation Society / Hands / The Amcats / Arms / Glass Rifle / Young Prisms / Brooks Wood / DJ Teddy King / Warbringer / Jes Loren / Xylos / Cooper Thomson / Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr (DJ Set) / Dinosaur Feathers / Angie Atkinson / Baby Copperhead / Patent Pending / The Gripweeds / Yva Las Vegas / Greg Barris / Amen Dunes / Evi Antonio / Cassettes Won't Listen / David Friend / Christina Cone and the Best Intentions / Electric Touch / Monster Rally / Danny Chait / Emil & Friends / Adrienne Drake / Keepaway / Erno the Inferno / Young Buffalo / Charlie Looker / Andrew Watt & the Dirty Touch / Dead to Me / Dallas Lewis / A Silent Comedy / The Ambassadors / DJ Mondee / The Reason / DJ Lifeone / Main Attrakionz / Cosmos Says Hello / Royal Baths / Geng Grizzly / Zambri / Youth Of Today / Caged Animals / Bleu / Andy Davis / Cubic Zirconia / Cap'tain / Banner Pilot / Goldheart Assembly / Zak Waters / Gospel Music / Pterodactyl / The Static Jacks / Frankie Rose and the Outs / City Of Ships / Robbers on High Street / Math The Band / Hallelujah The Hills / Gabriel The Marine / The Lighthouse and the Whaler / Y-Love / goodbyemotel / ORCA / The Love of Everything / Howard Jones / The Stepkids / 40 Below Summer / Walk the Moon / Rusted Root / Portugal. The Man Show all bands
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Unknown venue New York, New York, United States
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May 03, 2011
Jim Beam Homegrown 2011 2011
Savage / Katchafire / The Black Seeds / Six60 / Shapeshifter / The Phoenix Foundation / Kids of 88 / The Upbeats / The Clean / The Ruby Suns / Kora / Salmonella Dub / State Of Mind / Scribe / Nesian Mystik / The Feelers / I Am Giant / The Midnight Youth / PNC / The Checks / Blindspott / Elemeno P / Die! Die! Die! / Trinity Roots / Dane Rumble / J. Williams / Artisan Guns / Vince Harder / Kidz In Space / Cairo Knife Fight / Black River Drive / Motocade / Ivy Lies / Coco Solid / Tommy Ill / Dick Johnson / Family Cactus / Supermodel / Tim Phin / K one / Jason Kerrison / Illegal Banditz / DJ Logikal / DJ Lotion / Maya and Vanya / Clarke Gayford Show all bands
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Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Mar 22, 2011
Foo Fighters / The Transistors / Cairo Knife Fight
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Auckland Town Hall Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Mar 05, 2011
Homegrown Festival 2011
Savage / Katchafire / The Phoenix Foundation / The Upbeats / The Ruby Suns / Salmonella Dub / Scribe / Tiki Taane / Nesian Mystik / The Feelers / The Midnight Youth / Blindspott / Elemeno P / Die! Die! Die! / Dane Rumble / J. Williams / Optimus Gryme / Cairo Knife Fight / Motocade / Coco Solid / Tommy Ill / Dick Johnson / Sunshine Soundsystem / Maya and Vanya / Clarke Gayford Show all bands
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Feb 23, 2011
Queens of the Stone Age / Cairo Knife Fight Wellington Town Hall Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Jun 24, 2010
Karnivool / Mm9 / Cairo Knife Fight
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The Hi-Fi Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Jan 15, 2010
Big Day Out 2010
Muse / The Mars Volta / Lily Allen / Dizzee Rascal / Powderfinger / Kora / Kasabian / Midnight Youth / Mastadon / Karnivool / The Checks / Deja Voodoo / Fear Factory / Head Like A Hole / Dead Prez / Gin Wigmore / Rise Against / Devendra Banhart / The Decemberists / The Veils / Ladyhawke / The Horrors / Jet / Eskimo Joe / Passion Pit / The Temper Trap / True Lovers / James Duncan / The Drab Doo Riffs / Bandicoot / Groove Armada / Sasha / Calvin Harris / Tim Phin / Peaches / Girl Talk / Minuit / Concord Dawn / Dimmer / Dick Johnson / PNC / Nick D / Cairo Knife Fight Show all bands
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Mount Smart Stadium Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand
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Feb 06, 2009 –
Feb 08, 2009
AREA9 Festival 2009
The Black Seeds / Katchafire / The Phoenix Foundation / Salmonella Dub / Kora / Ladi6 / The Dukes / Tahuna Breaks / Rhombus / Cornerstone Roots / dDub / Troika / Cairo Knife Fight / La Mitchell / Doppler / the valves / Soulsystem / Taos / Chris Moore / Flying Solo / Sunburn / Oakley Grenell / Nitidus Show all bands
Ohau Downs Station Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has Cairo Knife Fight had?

Cairo Knife Fight has had 31 concerts.

What genre is Cairo Knife Fight?

Cairo Knife Fight is most often considered to be Rock, Alternative Rock, Australian, New Zealand, Kiwi Rock, and Nz Alternative Rock.

When was the last Cairo Knife Fight concert?

The last Cairo Knife Fight concert was on September 02, 2023 at Capitol Square Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The bands that performed were: Nonpoint / Taproot / Otherwise / Pistols at Dawn / Cairo Knife Fight / Breech / Aranda / The Lonely Ones / Smile Empty Soul / Gemini Syndrome / Saving Abel / Seilies.

What setlist does Cairo Knife Fight play live?

The songs that Cairo Knife Fight performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 07, 2014 concert at 170 Russell (Formerly Billboard) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

  1. The Violence of Action
  2. No Longer Silent
  3. Rezlord
  4. The Secrets of Sin

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