Joan As Police Woman New Zealand Tour Announced

US songwriter Joan As Police Woman aka Joan Wasser is touring Aotearoa for the first time ever this coming October, with intimate headline events lined up for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The critically revered artist will play songs from her superbly titled new career-spanning collection Joanthology, a mammoth 43 track retrospective gathering together material from over a decades worth of albums, rarities and live recordings. Along with her own extensive back catalogue, the New Yorker has collaborated with such significant figures as John Cale, Lou Reed, David Sylvian, Antony & The Johnsons and Rufus Wainwright. Audiences can look forward to stripped back, solo piano and guitar renditions of Joan As Police Woman's reflective and emotionally resonant chamber pop compositions – don't miss her at the dates below...

Joan As Police Woman - Joanthology NZ Solo Tour

Wednesday 23rd October - Meow, Wellington*
Thursday 24th October - Blue Smoke, Christchurch*
Friday 25th October - Tuning Fork, Auckland

Tickets available HERE via UTR*

Watch the 2014 video for 'Holy City', featured on Joanthology...

Press release:

Joan As Police Woman announces first NZ tour, October 2019.

Extraordinary New York musician Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) will perform three solo concerts in New Zealand this October, coinciding with this year’s release of her career-retrospective Joanthology.

Tickets for all shows are on sale at UnderTheRadar, except Auckland (Ticketmaster).

Joan’s recent solo tour throughout Europe has had the press raving. The Metro UK’s David Bennum proclaimed: “Countless acts have pondered love’s mysteries but few have surpassed Wasser in exploring its mystique.”

For this rare solo incarnation, Joan strips her sound down to its true essence, performing her songbook on piano and guitar. This intimate solo concert format is something music fans have longed to hear.

Since the release of debut album Real Life in 2006, Joan’s sound has naturally evolved through six breath-taking studio albums, hundreds of collaborations and over a thousand live concert performances.

Her 2018 release Damned Devotion is a testament to her insight and the ruminative reflection that demarcates her oeuvre.

She has collaborated and performed with a host of incredible artists including John Cale, Lou Reed, David Sylvian, Antony & The Johnsons and Rufus Wainwright.

On this New Zealand tour, fans can look forward to hearing live much of the material off JOANTHOLOGY, her first ever career retrospective. This deluxe triple CD set spans the first 15 years of Joan’s remarkable musical output and includes new, rare and unreleased material alongside more than thirty of her most loved songs.