Ōtepoti-based folk-pop quartet Laney Blue are on their way up the country in support of the release of their debut album 'Dreamer Too', playing The Wine Cellar on April 23 with support from Tāmaki locals Mali Mali & Ringlets.
With honest, heartfelt and at times melancholic story-telling, Laney Blue mixes pop’s melodic sensibilities with the noise and racket of Dunedin music stalwarts. Fronted by Olive Butler (Repulsive Woman, Adelaide Cara) and Nick Tipa (Violet-Ohs, A Distant City) and supported by friends and musicians-in-arms Jeremy Clark (Fazed on a Pony) and Zac Nicholls (Koizilla, Space Bats Attack!), Laney Blue promises to win over Aotearoa, one heart at a time.
Some artists explode with a bang. Others diligently build an oeuvre of work to smaller-scale fanfare, their audience clamouring to lay hands on every new release. Mali Mali is one of the latter, their new album I Was Told to Keep an Eye Out (the fourth in just seven years) releasing a stream of sophisticated pop storytelling into the world.
Ringlets are Tāmaki Makaurau locals. Fairly new on the scene as a unit, but with its member's fingers still dripping with innards of pies known and loved (Open, Lucky Boy, Marlins Dreaming, Kane Strang), Ringlets' loud and absurd output is sure to excite.
