Tourettes and Ben Salter Head On Nationwide Tour

Prolific Auckland artist Tourettes, aka Dominic Hoey, is kicking off a nationwide tour this weekend with Australian folk musician Ben Salter. However, Tourettes is shedding his guise as a rapper for the tour as he hits the road to promote his first self-published book of poetry, Party Tricks and Boring Secrets, which is embellished with dark medieval-style drawings by local tattoo artist Joshua Solomon. Supporting him on the 12-date tour is Ben Salter, who met Hoey by chance in Iceland when the rapper was working on his debut novel and the pair became firm friends. During the performances Salter will be performing a wealth of material from his back catalogue. Read on for more information about the shows (where the book will be available for purchase)...

Check out this video for Ben Salter's track 'The Mailbox Song'....

And here's a clip of Tourettes performing a poem about the South Island...

Party Tricks and Boring Secrets Tour

Friday 2nd May, Golden Dawn, Auckland
Saturday 3rd May, Meow, Wellington
Sunday 4th May, Playhouse, Nelson
Wednesday 7th May, Barrytown Hall, Barrytown
Thursday 8th May, Oamaru
Friday 9th May, Darkroom, Christchurch
Saturday 10th May, Chicks hotel, Port Chalmers
Sunday 11th May, Tommy Changs, Lyttleton
Wednesday 14th May, Rhythm, New Plymouth
Thursday 15th May, The Yot Club, Raglan
Friday 16th May, Leigh Sawmill
Saturday 17th May, Portland Public House, Auckland