HOPETOWN BROWN SHARE VIDEO FOR THEIR NEW SINGLE 'YOU KNOW I KNOW'

Following the release of their brand new single 'You Know I Know' featuring Sophie Burbery, Hopetoun Brown (Nick Atkinson) have today shared the official music video.

Directed and animated by none other than the magical Finn Scholes, Hopetoun fans will be familiar with Finn’s fiery trumpet skills and incandescent piano playing, but they may be unaware of his talents as an accomplished visual artist and animator.

Finn’s experimental five-piece Carnivorous Plant Society often have Finn’s animations projected behind the band as they play, but now Hopetoun Brown has commissioned the creature of Ponsonby to draw their entire video, complete with all manner of surreal couples doin’ it in full colour!

Recorded with Jol Mulholland from Mt Eden studio The Oven, the speedy rap duet features neighbourhood synth scientist and MC Sophie Burbery, Weird Together percussionist/bongo player Issac Chadderton, and alto sax player Callum Passells. 

Man your canoes and lash down your parachute flares! Hopetoun Brown and the genius of Finn Scholes will set sail for the most adventurous tour of the summer, aboard a kauri-planked ketch built in Lyttelton in the ‘80s!

Don’t miss Round the Horn, live at a limited number of remote island venues around the Hauraki Gulf. Taking in Rakino, Kawau and Great Barrier Island, the intrepid band will also drop anchor inside Leigh Harbour for their only North Island date at Leigh Sawmill.

*Tickets to the Leigh Sawmill show will be on pre-sale from UnderTheRadar here

Round the Horn - Hopetoun Brown
And the genius of Finn Scholes!


Tuesday January 9th – Rakino Island Community Hall, Rakino Island ($20 on the door)

Wednesday January 10th – Kawau Island Boating Club, Kawau Island (free)

Friday January 12th – Leigh Sawmill, Leigh (tickets on pre-sale from UnderTheRadar.co.nz)

Sunday January 14th – Port Fitzroy Yacht Club, Great Barrier Island ($20 on the door)

Hopetoun Brown are also very excited to be on this year’s artist lineup for WOMAD NZ, held in Taranaki’s idyllic Brooklands Park. They will be joined on stage by trumpet wunderkind, Finn Scholes for Taranaki’s biggest knees-up this March 16-18th. Come and party with our favourite pair, and stay tuned for more upcoming show dates!

HOPETOWN BROWN 'YOU KNOW I KNOW'

See Hopetoun Brown live with Finn Scholes
at WOMAD 2018!

In their brand new song ‘You Know I Know’, our favourite horn-tootin’ pair Hopetoun Brown ditch the stomp to share a drum-machine driven party saga about a weed-smokin’ womaniser.

In this speedy rap duet, the Hopetoun boys called up their neighbourhood synth scientist and MC, Sophie Burbery and Weird Together percussionist/bongo player Issac Chadderton. Alto sax player Callum Passells completes the lineup, playing a blistering solo in the first verse before a one-take improvised duel with Nick Atkinson’s tenor for the finale.

Curiously, Atkinson is also on lead-singer duties as Hopetoun Brown explore new sounds. Brass player and Hopetoun Brown’s usual singer Tim Stewart will be back on the mic soon enough, but for now, he’s overseeing production duties with the mercurial engineer Jol Mulholland, who recorded ‘You Know I Know’ at The Ovenin Mt Eden.

Also just announced - Hopetoun Brown are excited to be on this year’s artist lineup for WOMAD NZ, held in Taranaki’s idyllic Brooklands Park. They will be joined on stage by trumpet wunderkind, Finn Scholes for Taranaki’s biggest knees-up this March 16-18th. Come and party with our favourite pair, and stay tuned for more upcoming show dates!

HOPETOUN BROWN 'LOOK SO GOOD'

Just 12 months after the success of their first album “Burning Fuse”, Tim Stewart and Nick Atkinson have come up with something special for their second Hopetoun Brown album. They've pulled in dynamite guests and they've splashed more time in the studio than ever before. 

You might nod to the fat swing of Lawrence Arabia drummer Al Deverick or you can sigh hearing the soaring backing vocals of Marlon Williams. This album is peppered with star turns from some of Hopetouns closest collaborators. Tami Neilson and Tim Stewart co-wrote the first single Hate I Don't Love You and the two hottest brass players in the country, Finn Scholes and Kingsley Melhuish, have added new depths to the already stonking arrangements. Delaney Davidson's drummer Joe McCallum brings his sizzling high-hats and bouncing cowbells while Aldous Harding joins the party for a few shouts on one of the tracks expertly engineered by Lyttelton recording prodigy Ben Edwards. You'll hear Atkinson on the piano and Scholes on the Vibes and the organ. Stewart's tonsils are now highly polished after hundreds of gigs up and down the nation and the glue that holds this act together, a bass clarinet, of all instruments, beguiles with it's unique tone. Funk to the hip hop influences, bathe in the harmony of trumpets, have your ears pinned back by huge trombones and tubas and bounce all night as three different drummers vie for your shake time on this brand new record Look So Good.

Look So Good tour dates:

OCT 28th Auckland - Wine Cellar with special guests: Tami Neilson, Finn Scholes, Dave Khan and Darryn Harkness

OCT 29th Auckland - Wine Cellar with special guests: Priya Sami, Reb Fountain, Kingsley Melhuish, Dave Khan, Darryn Harkness and Callum Passells

NOV 4th Paeroa - The Refinery 

NOV 5th Coromandel - Hauraki House Theatre

NOV 9th Golden Bay - Mussel Inn

NOV 10th Hokitika - The Fire House

NOV 11th Wairau Valley - Dharma Bums Club

NOV 12th Wellington - Caroline

NOV 13th Hastings - City Art Gallery - Sunday afternoon Nov 13th

NOV 13th Napier - private house concert - Sunday evening Nov 13th

NOV 18th Hamilton - Nivara Lounge

NOV 19th Rotorua - Rotorua Museum

NOV 20th Martinborough - Toast Martinborough

Go to Hopetoun Brown's facebook for ticketing info and playing times