Michael has opened for some of the biggest rock stars

notably Rod Stewart at The

Mission Festival in 2005 in front of 30,000 people.

He supported Joe Cocker for all three nights at the 3,000

capacity Civic Theatre in

Auckland.

In his earlier days as part of NZ band The Innocent he

toured with INXS,

Echo & The Bunnymen, Elvis Costello and Warren

Zevon and Uriah Heep.

He has released two albums; the first "Angel Station" was

nominated as a

finalist in 1997's

New Zealand's National Music Awards. His second album

"Levonia" was recorded practically in one straight live

take and has been getting

rave reviews.

Without further waffle here is what the press in New

Zealand

have been writing:

"….We've got Mike Scorey to take our breath away. Reed

thin and

cheekbones you'd sell your grandmother for, this is the

first time he's

played during a poetry get-together and I sincerely hope it

is not the last. He's

stunning.

Our very own answer to Bob Dylan some say. The room of

poets waiting

their turn to read falls

silent…"

Judith

Baragwanath June 25th 2006

New Zealand

Sunday Star

"The album Scorey's second, was acclaimed by music critic

Nick Bollinger who

described the singer as an '

antipodean Bruce Springsteen'. At other times he compared

him to the

late Joe Strummer. Bollinger said he had been following

Scorey's career

since he first fronted

Wellington band The Innocent ('an obvious misnomer') more

than two decades

ago.

'Over the years he has just got better'. Scorey had 'the

refined senses of a first-rate story-teller' with music

'about as honest as

Kiwi rock gets. The stories are told from street level –

people you would meet in

bars and bus stops and at times I would even go so far as to

call him an

antipodean Bruce Springsteen."

Performance magazine

10th November 2005

"…And as for Levonia, it's 14 tracks are very much the

familiar territory of

rock music - love, loss, aloneness plus a few pokes at

various social hypocrisies for

good measure (Regulation Town, Free Stupidity).

These are roads well travelled by the singer who,

lyrically speaking, has a

poet's ear and, one suspects, heart; whether he's wielding

his Telecaster in

ska-style nods to post-punk or adopting quieter acoustic

moments…"

Simon Johnston 23rd June 2005 Preview magazine

"…The resulting 11 track CD Angel Station was a finalist

in the following

year's New Zealand Music Awards and achieved something of

local cult status for

him.

With it's emphasis on acoustic guitar and violin used

sparingly around

Scorey's husky impassioned voice, it pretty much defined his

Celtic-flavoured

folk-rock sound and has been compared, not unflatteringly,

with those fine Irish

practitioners The Waterboys…"

23rd January 2003 NZ Gulf News

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