Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory NZ Tour Announced

Already announced as headliner for Auckland's The Others Way 2025 festival, Sharon Van Etten has expanded the horizons of her upcoming return visit to Aotearoa NZ with The Attachment Theory, announcing very welcome new dates at Wellington's The Opera House and Christchurch's Isaac Theatre Royal in November.

Widely hailed as a career highpoint from an artist whose output has been never less than stratospheric, the US songwriter's seventh studio long player is her self-titled debut release with bandmates Jorge Balbi, Devra Hoff and Teeny Lieberson — arising from improvisational origins to deliver a sonically majestic, emotionally-slamming collection, spanning oceanic dream-pop, panoramic rock, spiky new wave, gritty disco-funk, and dirgey post-punk.

Famously a musical hero of NZ broadcasting icon John Campbell, Van Etten and band will be supported in the capital and in Canterbury by US folk-punk artist Shannon Lay, who is also on The Others Way festival's mega-stacked bill. Do not miss Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory at the following dates, a momentous nationwide tour brought to you by Banished Music and Strange News...

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Tuesday 25th November - The Opera House, Wellington*
Thursday 27th November - Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch*
Saturday 29th November - The Others Way Festival, Auckland

*with special guest Shannon Lay (USA)
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Press release:

Following the gigantic recent announcement that Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory are headlining The Others Way Festival this November, Banished Music and Strange News are delighted to reveal the band are also set to play their very own shows in Wellington and Christchurch, with very special international guest Shannon Lay joining in support at both shows.

Hot on the (six-inch patent black stiletto) heels of their self-titled album, Tuesday 25 November will see Sharon returning to Wellington’s Opera House with her remarkable new band in tow, and playing Christchurch’s Isaac Theatre Royal on Thursday 27 November, before heading up to slay The Other’s Way’s very first outdoor Karangahape Road stage.

That her band’s debut album is her own seventh album is a testament to Van Etten’s willingness to reinvent and follow her instincts for change, even after this long on the job. Now sixteen years into an extraordinary career, it seems our heroine has fully accepted her mantle as one of the world’s great rock stars, fronting her gothic-tinged new outfit to widespread awe and acclaim, Devra Hoff on bass guitar and backing vocals, Teeny Lieberson on keys, guitar, and backing vocals, and Jorge Balbi on drums.

Also performing at The Others Way, and playing support in Wellington and Christchurch, American songwriter Shannon Lay is much of a punk as she is a folk singer, citing both The Ramones and Nick Drake as influences. As a member of garage rocker Ty Segall’s Freedom Band, Lay can certainly make a racket, but for these shows, she will be opening as a solo act. The Guardian were quick to assure us that “This is no mere indie-folk musician,” and Pitchfork said her most recent studio album “presents a quiet, lovely, undramatic rendering of the dramatic”.

We truly could not be more excited to be welcoming Queen Shazza back to Aotearoa for these shows, and with the addition of both her band The Attachment Theory and Shannon Lay’s opening spot, you should be dang well excited too!