Finn Andrews

As autumn slowly envelops, with its chilling forebodings of the oncoming winter, Finn Andrews on this night brought the warmth to the isolation of Matapiro, commencing his five-night run as the latest eminence to grace the stages of the Small Hall Sessions.

Finn Andrews and the NZTrio… a match made in heaven, or at least it sounded like it last night at the Wintergarden as they performed the first of two shows as part of this year's Auckland Live Cabaret Season.

Finn Andrews and Dictaphone Blues took the stage for the 3rd weekend of Together Again at the Tuning Fork last night. Rev Orange Peel reviews a night of “intense Folk.

After much rescheduling (damn Covid!), Veils lead singer Finn Andrews finally made it to the stage of the appropriately-named St Andrew's Hall in Hastings, on this, the final night of his current tour presenting tunes old and new, strictly solo.

Finn Andrews Sings Humanity's Legend

The tone drops lower as the singer embraces Al Pacino / Rise and Fall, a piece he introduces as a fairly apt description of the process of songwriting. As the music towards the end rises, the lines speak of spring and rebirth.

St Pancras Old Church is the ideal vehicle for his sometimes confessional lyrics, but it suits his music very well too. He sits at an upright piano, the like of which you often find in a church such as this, with a rounded tone and a pitch that suggests the piano tuner has just been employed.