NYMPHO

Take a dip, the water's warm... NYMPHO is back with a splash for Auckland Pride 2025.
Headlining this edition of NYMPHO is Isabella Lovestory. Isabella Lovestory wants you to feel the way she felt at 13 -- unrestrained, full of desire -- euphorically dancing alone to a distorted reggaeton riddim booming on the radio. "It is about the real me," she says. "But also the imagined me - the girl I made up to step out of myself, to escape into my indulgences and excesses."  

The 'real' Isabella is a synthesis of her childhood experiences, the soundtracks to her memories. In her hometown of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, she absorbed the music of reggaeton artists like Wisin y Yandel and Plan B; her cooler older cousins would blast DJ Playero at family parties. Her father, a radio DJ, exposed her to alternative rock from The Cure and The Smiths. While alone, she obsessively transcribed lyrics to pop songs by Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani off the radio. After moving to the US and later Canada as a teenager, she discovered American rap music from artists like Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne's Young Money, and raps mutations via MIA, Kreayshawn and Lil B. Isabella's music brims with these musical influences but also with the originality and experimentation that they share.  

Isabella likes extremes. Her songs are stories of love, sex, life and the rage, ecstasy and humor in it all. "Love can be nasty and violent, it's not always a sugary fairytale. Sex is liberating and the most primal creative expression, but this same feeling can be found in other sides of life, not everything sexy is about sex. Desire vs. freedom. Parallels and unusual dichotomies, poetry in lust. Expressing sins is healing." 

LINEUP:

ISABELLA LOVESTORY (HN)

VERCETTI

POPPA JAX

DIESEL

SEQUENTIA

SUB SAHARA

MC MANILA

MONOGA.MY B2B TEDDYYY

NYMPHO is a dance-focused queer club night with visual and performance art styles woven into high energy DJ sets. We strive to create a safe, inclusive and transcendent club experience which celebrates gender euphoria, body positivity and sexual liberation. Our kaupapa of lifting up marginalised communities extends from our audience and lineups to our musical philosophies - with genre-diverse sets centred around QBIPOC rooted genres such as techno, house and emergent queer sounds. As well as spotlighting the best of Aotearoa’s diverse queer talent, NYMPHO has brought international icons to our long white cloud, including horsegiirL, Doss, TAAHLIAH, Ninajirachi, Kevin Aviance, MikeQ, Pxssy Palace, Jasmine Infiniti, Estoc and DJ G2G.

We give thanks to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei as mana whenua of Te Ara o Karangahape and acknowledge that Māori sovereignty was never ceded. Toitū te Tiriti.

Concession tickets are available for low wage, unemployed or financially insecure nymphs. If you can't afford a ticket you can get in touch with us via Instagram. No nymphs left behind!

EPILEPSY WARNING: Strobe lighting and other intense lighting effects will be used during this show. It will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.