Vorsen are a 3 piece band based around the songs written and recorded by John Halvorsen over a 30 year period through the 90s and up to this day.
Their musical landscape covers a wide range of genres and periods that are hard to pigeon hole. A general description might use the words, heavy, melodic, discord, grungy, punk, avant-garde, dystopian, industrial, space-pop, shoe-gaze, hard rock.
John Halvorsen
Guitar and Vocals
Founder of the Gordons 1980
Guitarist for Skeptics 1985 to 91
Bass, Guitar and Vocals in Bailter Space from 1988 to the present.
Steve Cochrane
Drums
The Uncools, Skank Attack, Wazzo Ghoti
Hayden Ellis
Bass
Played bass in Deaf
Halvorsen’s discography over a 42 year period includes over 20 records. The 1st album in 1981 from the Gordons received the Taite Music Prize in 2014 for best Classic Album , and on its re-release in 2021 went to Number 3 in NZ charts.
