“Kristin Hersh is a musical genius” – Huffington Post
“A fearless rock innovator” – New York Times
Plus1 Touring proudly announces US indie icon Kristin Hersh will play four New Zealand shows in November.
Hersh will tour Aotearoa for the first time since 2014, performing from her solo and Throwing Muses-spanning career and material from her new album Clear Pond Road, out 8 September.
When asked about returning to Aotearoa after so many years Kristin responded, “New Zealand audiences are some of the most musically literate I have ever had the honor of playing for…they seem to grasp the comedy and tragedy inherent in visceral music like this.”
The tour – presented with UnderTheRadar and 95bFM – includes Wellington, Christchurch and two Auckland dates, as follows:
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Thursday 16 November – Meow, Wellington.
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Friday 17 November – The Piano, Christchurch
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Saturday 18 November – Tuning Fork, Auckland
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Sunday 19 November – Artworks, Waiheke Island, Auckland (early show)
Tickets are on sale at 9 am Wednesday 2 August from Plus1.co.nz
The inimitable Kristin Hersh is a musician’s musician, a songwriter’s songwriter, and an innovator’s innovator.
The Queen of Grunge’s first band, Throwing Muses, began recording and playing out when they were just 14 years old and they’re still going – 2020’s critically acclaimed Sun Racket was hailed as “a perfect record”.
Hersh’s refusal to participate in a corporate industry saw her leave a Warner Brothers recording contract at the top of her success in order to become listener-supported.
“Music is humanist and so are we.” as she puts it.
Wildly prolific, she has released more than 20 albums solo, with Throwing Muses and with her noise rock band, 50 Foot Wave.
She’s also a celebrated author: Rolling Stone named her first book Rat Girl (Penguin) one of the ten best rock memoirs of all time. NPR said of her second book, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, “Not only one of the best books of the year but one of the most beautiful rock memoirs ever written”. While her third book, the game-changing Seeing Sideways, pushes the envelope of creative non-fiction while telling the story of raising her four sons on a tour bus.
Kristin Hersh’s new album Clear Pond Road set for release on 8th September via Fire Records (Southbound Distribution NZ), is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron.
Clear Pond Road continues the juxtaposition of dark and light –dark sunshine, as Hersh puts it– that characterises Hersh’s legendary work with Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave but goes even further inward as it explores the intimacy and complexity that sits alongside Hersh’s fierce independence.
and earlier single, “Dandelion”;
Clear Pond Road – Tracklist
Pre-order HERE
- Bewitched Reruns
- Ms Haha
- Dandelion
- Constance Street
- Thank You, Corner Blight
- St. Valentines Day Massacre
- Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
- Eyeshine
- Palmetto
- Tunnels
“Few artists understand the intensity of living one’s art like Hersh” The Guardian
Kristin Hersh “a key link between 1970s idols such as Patti Smith and Debbie Harry and the indie rock chicks to emerge in the late 1980s – Kim Deal, Kim Gordon and P.J. Harvey. Without Hersh and her contemporaries, we might not have Cat Power, Shirley Manson, St Vincent or even Grimes.” – Sydney Morning Herald
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