Anthonie Tonnon’s musical story sounds familiar enough at first: he formed a band while he was at university in Dunedin and kept at it. But it’s also a story of innovation and reinvention in a changing music industry, and of memorable songs about things most people don’t write songs about. Tonnon can’t quite claim to have been born in Dunedin – he moved there fro…
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Ambient Light (New Zealand)
October 20, 2022
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As the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival approaches the halfway point, acclaimed Wanganui-based singer-songwriter wowed the audience with a spectacular show in the Festival's spiritual home. But don't let the “singer-songwriter” description lead you down any alleyways of cliche there wasn't an acoustic guitar in sight!
Anthonie Tonnon is looking fashionably retro on stage in New Zealand’s oldest theatre, the Hollywood in Avondale, and with his band lays out a charged and enthralling set featuring latest album Leave Love Out of This.
This special one-off gig was planned to celebrate the release of Whanganui based musician Anthonie Tonnon's latest single, Mataura Paper Mill an exquisite track about the environmental situation at the neglected mill in Southland.
Vocalist Brooke Singer opened local support act French For Rabbits’ set by calling for 20 seconds of silence for her dads’ cat Nuggets, who passed away that day.
With his eccentric interactive show and melancholy folk-pop songs, Tonnon has quickly become a must-see act, with his sold-out series of gigs at Grey Lynn’s Freida Margolis testament to that.
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