Matiu Walters: Six60 Lead Singer discusses the band's drive, festival, new single

It’s not a Kiwi summer without Six60, and the county’s highest selling live band is rolling on.  

They’ve dropped their latest single, ‘We Made It’, coming in the wake of their bestselling Australian performance at the Sydney Opera House. 

They’ll also have the honour of being the first live act to perform at the new One NZ Stadium in Christchurch and are curating a new country and roots music festival, taking place this summer in Matakana.  

Lead singer Matiu Walters told Heather du Plessis-Allan it’s just a one-day festival at the moment, but they have plans to grow. 

“It’s definitely a tough time for the arts, music, and for everyone really, to be fair,” he said. 

“We didn’t, we never want to kind of just, to like, rest on our laurels.”  

Over the years they’ve been performing, Six60 has smashed records, being labelled as the country’s first-ever Chart Icon at the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards, and Walters says their drive stems from their desire to do “cool stuff”. 

“Our goal was, was always just to write and perform music, and my purpose is to sing and play guitar, and all these things that kind of happened around us,” he told du Plessis-Allan. 

“We’re aspirational dudes.” 

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