Under the Radar and 95Bfm presents the spring show from heaven and hell!
“Salvation” release tour of Auckland featuring Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men with The Nukes!
This year sees Auckland’s Griffen step out into new territory with the record Salvation, recorded at Auckland’s The Lab studio in May 2014. The new record sings out like a scream in a quiet night -- Bernie’s characters are hard-living and hard-loving, outlaw and saviour, the lover and the man in trouble -- Bernie Griffen tells tales of adventure, loss and a life hard lived.
It’s a timely follow-up from 2011’s Everything So Far (Bernie Griffen and the Grifters) -- which featured the song 29 Diamonds, championed by Radio NZ’s Trevor Reekie in 2011: If there’s any justice in this industry, 29 Diamonds would win a Silver Scroll, it is achingly poignant and it will travel forever.
He appears with star-studded back-up band The Thin Men comprised of the formidable Chris O’Connore [The Phoenix Foundation, SJD and more], Marcus Dawson [Lucid 3, Gin Wigmore, Dave Dobbin] Steve Roach [Bernie Griffen and the Grifters] Louise Evans [The Flaming Pearls], and long-time partner/collaborator, poet and singer, Kirsten Warner [The Flaming Pearls].
And our favorite songsters The Nukes, releasing their second album Lucky Ones.
“Lucky Ones is a revelation, lifting the Nukes not just well above and beyond the level of the majority of ukulele bands…. but standing comparison with any acoustic folky songwriter act”… “a variety of beautifully arranged and harmonised songs, that are unpretentious, kiwi-as, yet neatly avoiding the instruments clichéd cutesiness”.
Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men with The Nukes
• The Tuning Fork, Vector Arena, September 25
• Titirangi RSA, September 26
• Leigh Sawmill, September 28
