gigs / 29 london street / ōhinehou
MONTHS june & july
NEIVE STRANG & GRETA O'LEARY
joined by keira wallace & will mcgillivray
friday 19th june / 7:30pm
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Join Greta O’Leary (Tāmaki Makaurau/AKL) and Neive Strang (Ōtepoti/DUN) for an evening of indie folk music as they perform their most recent releases, River Dark and Find Me in the Rabbit Hole. Greta will be accompanied by guitarist/vocalist Will McGillivray, and Neive, by guitarist/vocalist Kiera Wallace.
Neive Strang is an indie folk musician based in Ōtepoti/Dunedin. She creates warm, thoughtful, and emotional music informed by themes of change, mental health, love, and whānau/family. Neive’s music is akin to artists like Julia Jacklin, lucinda Williams and Waxahatche. Like these artists, her songwriting is written through personal experience and observation.
Tāmaki Makaurau songsmith Greta O’Leary writes with a surrealist clarity of vision, the line between art and artist, self and image - is razor thin. Raised on rolling hills in northern New Zealand, and coming of age anywhere but here, O’Leary is a writer with her own lens and language. Her breakthrough debut album ‘River Dark’ was released in 2025, landing at #9 on the Aotearoa Album Charts and toured throughout NZ and Australia.
TESS LIAUTAUD & her band
with special guest SOUTH RIVER
saturday 27th june / 7pm
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“Ma jolie, how do you do?” Franco-American, now Aotearoa's folk-country sweetheart Tess Liautaud has released a new song, for the first time she showcases her two mother tongues in a bilingual ballad. For this feat Tess Liautaud chose to sing ‘Jolie Louise’ written by French-Canadian singer and producer Daniel Lanois. Liautaud’s version is saturated in unbridled rawness and honesty, she leans into the song's lyrical heartbreak while her band roll out a country romp. It is a song that moves along and carries your heart with it.
To celebrate the release of ‘Jolie Louise’, Liautaud has announced a special hometown show at Lyttelton Coffee Company, on June 27th. Tess will be accompanied by her band, an ever evolving alt-country ensemble featuring pedal steel, banjo, double bass, shadowy guitars and soaring harmonies. Don’t miss this last ditch show before Liautaud sails away to tour her songs throughout Europe (a follow up to her successful 2025 ‘Sleepless in Europe Tour’.)
Special guests Southriver will open the show with their unique blend of banjo, guitar and old time feeling.