Fresh from Glastonbury and soon to appear at Green Man, Nadia Reid returns with ‘Not Giving It Out’ – a luminous, slow-burning reflection on love, identity, and quiet resistance. Rooted in Dunedin’s North East Valley, it’s both a personal love song and a statement of artistic self-possession.
“I see this song in two parts. It’s an ode to the streets where I did some formative growing; it’s about the joy and complexity of domestic life — the mundane moments, the quiet truths: ‘We are but a bird in flight.’
The latter part was written as a kind of riff — a response to a nasty review by a renowned NZ ‘music journalist.’ He’d offended many of my peers, myself included… So the last line is dedicated to him, and more broadly, to anyone who makes a habit of pulling others down. ‘Write what you like about me (buddy), I’m not giving it out no more’
When I think about the music industry right now, I often imagine a candle. The success of others — my peers doing well — is like lighting more and more candles. It’s endless. There’s room for everyone.”
Not Giving It Out is for fans of Sharon Van Etten, Big Thief, and songs that say more than they shout.
Nadia Reid is playing NZ/AU 2025 Summer Tour dates
Fri 05 Dec – Christchurch – The Piano
Sat 06 Dec – Auckland – Powerstation
Wed 10 Dec – Sydney – Vanguard
Thu 11 Dec – Melbourne – Howler
Fri 12 Dec – Wellington – Meow Nui
Fri 19 Dec – Dunedin – Regent Theatre
Tickets on sale from www.banishedmusic.com
Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness
Out now via Slow Time Records in NZ
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Emmanuelle
Cry On Cue
Baby Bright
Hold It Up
Changed Unchained
Second Nature
Even Now
Hotel Santa Cruz
Woman Apart
Send It Down The Line
Nadia’s forth record contains ten beautiful new tracks, featuring themes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak.
Enter Now feels different. It is an album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” That through music we can find great change. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”
Enter Now Brightness was recorded between 2021 and 2023 in Dunedin and Auckland, New Zealand.
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