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BIG SURPRISE!!!!! ARE YOU COMING TO THE SHOW????
Hannah Everingham tours New Zealand in celebration of her new album Big Surprise, out August 7th 2026. Featuring the songs ‘Judi Dench’ & ‘Want You’ - Big Surprise, Hannah Everingham’s third album, holds a magic in its name. How could a surprise be big or small? Seemingly defining and defying its own contradictions, here is an artist who sings of crabs, earthquakes, shopping in New York, Judi Dench and a lover who gifts flowers by lifting them, roots and all, from the earth.
Garnering attention since the release of her debut album Between Bodies in 2022, Hannah Everingham has been described as an artist beamed out of a timeless sonic realm - a seasoned navigator between shadow and jubilation. She has performed across New Zealand, in Australia & New York. This tour includes her first NZ shows since the release of her acclaimed 2024 album Siempre Tiene Flores, and will be a celebration of her new album across the country with a full band show in Lyttelton and duo shows in Te Ika-a-Māui.
Big Surprise, recorded in full takes between the former home of New Zealand children’s writer Margaret Mahy in Governor’s Bay & in Lyttelton captures a similar playfulness - an enchantment for children and adults alike, a leaning towards the supernatural mystery. Love as, and is, the real force that leaps outside the body, just as this music pours out of the record. Hopefulness in the island of the music, the lightness of living within a deep blue darkness. This is, like an island, a world approaching its own boundary. The big surprise is life itself, the road that unwinds only as you move. Yet these shifting melodies over thick rhythm give Big Surprise a fluidity, much like seaweed that binds itself to the volcanic peninsula from where the album was made. Both bound and freely floating, both made of the bright sky and the blue sea, it is true, just as Everingham sings, that -
in the morning
I will wake up
free
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