News from Southern Collective Music (Jack Grabham)
Written by Lorraine Owen
Exciting news for our lads DAKOTA (previously called SCENE), who now have their plans for relocation to the UK well and truly cemented.
With their signing to Black Radar Management in the UK, covering the British Isles and Europe (with Southern Collective covering rest of world) the band has now been picked up by British TV giant Channel Four, for it's KERRANG TV show, which is airing their debut video under their new Dakota name, "Devil", mixed and mastered by Greg Haver in the UK and New York.
There is no denying its been a massive few months for Six60. 2 platinum singles. 1 double platinum single. A double platinum album that hasn’t been out of the Top 10 since it debuted No 1 back in October. A completely sold out summer tour that saw them play to over 15,000 people in just 7 dates. Crazy!!
And now Six60 are about to embark on their first ‘world tour’.
Emeralds and Greenstone (Ariana Tikao) - Mini Tour
Written by Lorraine Owen
Christchurch based indigi-folk band Emeralds and Greenstone have a mini tour planned for February and March.
They are planning an international tour for August 2012, in the UK and Europe. The band consists of Ariana Tikao (vocals, taonga puoro), Laura Tomlin (vocals, keys, flute, tinwhistle), Argene Montgomery-Honger (bodhran, tin whistle, bvs), James Wilkinson (bass, guitar, vocals), Jon Hooker (guitars).‘Knights of the DUB Table’ (Sharyn Syme) official Album Tour
Written by Lorraine Owen
Knights of the DUB Table are set to hit 6 cities in 3 weekends for the official tour of their recently released debut album ‘Way of the DUB’.
The Way of the Dub Tour will kick start in the bands hometown of Hamilton on the 3rd of February in the bar which they deem the birthplace of the band, the legendary Flow Bar.Other locations for the tour include Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North, Gisborne and Wellington. The Knights have made it their goal to do the album justice on the live stage.
I Am Giant (Teresa Patterson) Announce Summer Tour
Written by Lorraine Owen
I AM GIANT ANNOUNCE SUMMER TOUR
With special guests Cairo Knife Fight
I Am Giant have to returned to NZ for their biggest national tour ever! 2011 was a massive year for I Am Giant – their debut album ‘The Horrifying Truth’ debuted No 2 in the charts and is nearly GOLD! It was the highest selling NZ rock album of 2011 and produced five massive number 1 Rock hits – ‘City Limits’, ‘Neon Sunrise’, ‘Living The Crash’, ‘And We’ll Defy’ and ‘Let It Go’.
Anna Coddington + Band - Little Islands Tour
Written by Lorraine Owen
Enchanting local songstress Anna Coddington has announced she will be heading out on a national tour of New Zealand throughout January and February.
Off the back of the release of her second solo album ‘Cat & Bird’ this year and her recent tour as part of Fly My Pretties,Coddington will hit the road playing tunes perfect for the long hot kiwi summer.Anna Coddington Announces ‘Little Islands’ Tour
Written by Wairere Iti
Enchanting local songstress Anna Coddington has announced she will be heading out on a national tour of New Zealand throughout January and February.
Off the back of the release of her second solo album ‘Cat & Bird’ this year and her recent tour as part of Fly My Pretties, Coddington will hit the road playing tunes perfect for the long hot kiwi summer.
After an extensive Rugby World Cup campaign playing fan zones nation-wide, The Feelers are continuing their celebratory mood by announcing a string of summer dates with their special guests and partying with you in their favourite summer haunts.
The upcoming series of weekend shows will round off what has been a full and productive year for the band, culminating in the release of their new album Hope Nature Forgives, as always the best reason for getting out on the road with some good friends and fellow musicians.
Stomping Nick & His Blues Grenade (Nick Jackman)
Written by Lorraine Owen
This one man band is touring NZ in December and promises to save you from the over produced, auto tuned summer trifle with raw, unadulterated, shotgun in your mouth blues.
Ladi6 (Rebecca Caughey) – Hitchin’ A Ride Tour
Written by Wairere Iti
Fresh from a successful summer in Europe, Ladi6 is looking forward to hitchin’ a ride with some of her favourite NZ bands and intends to wield her knockout show proving to Kiwi audiences why Ladi6 is now so highly regarded overseas.
From a dream-come-true support slot for Erykah Badu in Berlin to incredibly well-received shows at Glastonbury and The Big Chill, Ladi with Parks and Julien Dyne have been turning heads overseas in a big way, with more than 50 performances throughout the European summer and a run of festivals in Asia; while her break-through The Liberation Of… album has received glowing reviews in the UK and beyond.
Midnight Youth (Matt and Kimi Coleman)‘World Comes Calling’ Summer Tour
Written by Wairere Iti
Jandals – check…….towel – check…….chilly bin – check….tickets to Midnight Youth Summer Tour – CHECK!
Proudly presented by Brent Eccles Entertainment, Midnight Youth are bringing their fierce rock revolution to a town near you this December.
Performing their new album ‘World Comes Calling’, which debuted in the NZ Charts this week at #4, Midnight Youth are set for some rebel rousing, hook driven, stadium anthems for the rock lovers of summer.
The national treasure that is Dave Dobbyn will be traveling around the world with the Dukes in late November
Dave Dobbyn ends a busy touring year with a return to London at the end of November. He plays a one-off show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, his first theatre show in the UK in three years. Dobbyn He stops off for the first time in Singapore and revisits Dubai, where the temperature has dropped to a more palatable 40degrees