Hannah Everingham headlines in Ōtepoti to release her debut album Between Bodies, sharing the bill with greats Robert Scott + Francisca Griffin. Joined by her voracious bandmates, Everingham will bring songs from the debut album to life in her first headlining appearance to the south. An official technically untechnical album release rendezvous…
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Francisca Griffin, known as Kathy Bull until the mid 1990s, was bass player, guitarist and vocalist for 80s Flying Nun band Look Blue Go Purple and in January 2019 she released a fantastic album as Francisca Griffin entitled 'The Spaces Between.' Fishrider Records owner and staunch Dunedin music stalwart Ian Henderson describes Francisca's music as having “the kind of freshness and instantly recognisable light and airy guitar tones of its place of origins. Psychedelic folk perhaps, Southern New Zealand style, and in some respects as reminiscent of David Kilgour’s solo music as it is of Look Blue Go Purple.”
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Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Robert Scott has been a staple in the New Zealand alternative rock scene since the 1980s, holding down bass, guitar and songwriting duties for jangle pop legends The Clean and later The Bats. In the ‘90s he led the folk-pop outfit Magick Heads and contributed both music and cover art for a host of regional acts. He released his debut, largely instrumental solo album, The Creeping Unknown, in 2001 on Flying Nun, followed a decade later by the more pop-oriented Ends Run Together (2011). He managed a third album only a few years later with 2014’s The Green House, another collection of shambling and soft-spoken indie rockers.
“Robert Scott never stops surprising – as a solo artist he’s found a new gear. On his first album, The Creeping Unknown, he experimented, for the next Ends Run Together he produced a terrifically assured work of pop-rock. The Green House is another excellent set of songs: the mood is quieter, and it draws you in with intimate tales of the heart set in the weather and wide skies of the south – a record of darkness and light, beautifully played out and accentuated with the aid of the voice of Tiny Ruins.” – Richard Langston
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Hannah Everingham is an artist of indelible charm - appearing into Aotearoa's music scene late 2022 with the release of her debut album Between Bodies, caught across the country as “A truly wonderful and very impressive debut” (Flying Nun Records), Feeling beamed out from a timeless sonic realm (UTR), and featuring So Long Underground, one of RNZ's Best Singles of 2022. Recorded with Thomas Isbister in Ōtautahi, she describes the album as an 8-track offering of love and separation, an exploration of the distance between earth and sky and the place that we inhabit together, between bodies.
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