Victoria Girling-Butcher (VGB, Lucid 3) Announces Auckland Show w/ Cloudy

Songwriting force behind Lucid 3 and more recently core member of Sir Dave Dobbyn’s live band, Victoria Girling-Butcher aka VGB steps back into the spotlight for a special headline event at Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar. Joined onstage by by fellow Lucid 3 member Marcus Lawson on bass and drummer Ross Burge (The Mutton Birds), the Taranaki-bred talent will play a career-spanning selection of material from both her aforementioned group's three records and VGB's subsequent debut album Summit Drive (2011). Also a contributor to Flight Of The Conchords' star-powered charity hit 'Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)', you can learn more about Girling-Butcher's oeuvre via Gary Steel's informative AudioCulture profile HERE. She'll be supported on 19th September by rising indie songwriter Cloudy with band, head along and celebrate Girling-Butcher's musical songbook to date...

Victoria Girling-Butcher and Band
with special guest Cloudy
Thursday 19th September - Whammy Bar, Auckland
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Experience Victoria Girling-Butcher's 'The Taxidermist' from VGB's 2011 debut album Summit Drive...

Watch the classic clip for Lucid 3's 'AM Radio' from their 2004 album All Moments Leading To This...

Press release:

VGB ( Victoria Girling-Butcher) is returning to perform live for the first time in ten years. The show at Auckland’s Whammy Bar on Sept 19 will be a celebration of material from her three Lucid3 albums and critically acclaimed solo project. She will be joined by Marcus Lawson, former band-mate in Lucid 3 on bass, and the formidable Ross Burge (The Mutton Birds) on drums.

Following her return to NZ after a few years of teaching music in Paris, she reunited with Sir Dave Dobbyn’s live band in 2018 as rhythm-guitarist.

Emerging indie singer-songwriter Cloudy opens the show and is poised to captivate listeners with her unique blend of 90s indie-rock and contemporary dream-pop. Cloudy is supported by Emily Mackie (Mini Simmons) on keys and guitarist Chris McCollum (Zephyr Love, Makeshift Parachutes).