An Irish busking duo are making their mark on the Christchurch night time scene, using the common old shipping container.
It turns out once the sun sets over Christchurch's Busker's Park, being inside a container is the place to be.
With dozens of hot, sweaty partygoers crammed inside one small space, it's a 30 minute Contain-A-Rave hosted by the high-energy Irish duo.
All they need is a container, a sound system and smoke machine.
They're international buskers and have performed as far as Poland.
The idea for the Contain-A-Rave was born in a Dublin alley while promoting one of their stage shows.
"We're pushing a shopping trolley along the street with speakers on it and the reaction we got from that [was] bigger than any reaction we got from any of our shows," says Cian Kinsella, 'Sean-Tastic' from Lords of Strut.
Then came turning an unusual dance party into art.
"Music's art, dance is art, we are art," the other in the duo, Cormac Mohally, 'Famous Seamus' says. "Collectively we're making something that will never happen again on the same date or in the same container."
They've come to Container City, where the metal boxes are used as a rockfall barriers and house cafes and malls.
Christchurch is as far as they've taken their Contain-A-Rave, with the end goal being a dance party on Mars.
But until they figure out how to make that happen, it's on ground zero where their party will remain.
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