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Otago Daily Times
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- Otago Daily Times
‘Pumped' for tour
Australian country music artist Brad Cox will be performing at Gore's Croydon Lodge on November 15. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Australian country music star Brad Cox is bringing his powerful voice and songwriting back to Aotearoa this November, and stopping in at the country music capital. Cox will be covering the motu in a five-date tour this year, stopping in New Zealand's home of country music, Gore. The songwriter, whose song Give Me Tonight has over 12-million streams on Spotify, will play at The Croydon Lodge Hotel on November 15. Outside of the town's Bayleys Tussock Country Music Festival in May, the show will be an extra treat for Southern fans of the genre. Bayleys Tussock Country Music Festival chairman Jeff Rea said his team were delighted to support Cox in bringing his show to Gore. "The festival has helped put Gore on the map as a must-visit destination for international country artists," Mr Rea said. "This concert will not only give fans in the South something to celebrate but also give a great boost to the local economy." Cox has been nominated for APRA Awards in 2021, 2022 and 2024. At the 2024 Country Music Awards of Australia, held in Tamworth, Gore's sister city, he won Male Artist of the Year. He also won Contemporary Country Album of the Year and Top Selling Australian Country Album of the Year for his album Acres. The Australian has completed his tour in Australia and is now bringing it to NZ — a country which he said he loves. "Travelled there numerous times for work but mainly for pleasure, because I just absolutely love the country. ... See you mob in a few months. I'm pumped." Tour dates include Auckland on November 12, then Christchurch, Dunedin, Gore and Queenstown in the following days. Tickets from — APL
West Australian
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker wins APRA Music Awards for writing Dua Lipa's hit song Houdini
Kevin Parker says winning two awards for writing a pop anthem by Dua Lipa is one of the proudest moments from his 20-year music career. The psychedelic mastermind behind Fremantle's Tame Impala was honoured at the APRA Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday night, where he snapped up the most performed Australian work and most performed pop work awards for global hit Houdini. The event is a celebration of Australia's finest songwriters honouring those who have achieved artistic excellence and outstanding success in their fields. The Sydney-born but Perth-raised star couldn't make it to the ceremony but said via a pre-recorded acceptance speech: 'Thank you for my award for Houdini. I had so much fun making it and writing it, and we are super, super proud of what we came out with. 'I think it might be one of my most proud moments, in songwriting, and, collaborating. So, yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it.' As well as co-writing the tune with Lipa and a few other talents, Parker played bass on the song and contributed backing vocals. Houdini is the second track on Lipa's third studio album, Radical Optimism, which was released in May last year. Parker co-wrote seven songs and co-produced the album alongside Danny L Harle, Ian Kirkpatrick, and Andrew Wyatt. Last year, the 39-year-old shared some insight about Lipa's working process, labelling her a 'meticulous' editor. 'Her editing is brutal,' Parker says, revealing Houdini took months to get right. 'I'd kind of recoil in horror and go, 'Oh, no, it's a great verse!' 'But then an hour later, we'd have something that I can't imagine not being in the song.' Lipa has also spoken out about working with Parker, saying it has always been a 'dream collaboration'. 'I've always looked up to him as someone that I'm really inspired by, and he has always been on my dream board of people to work with,' she told Triple J. It seems the musical duo works just as well on stage together as they do in the recording studio. During Lipa's Glastonbury Festival in June last year, the Londoner brought Parker out for a duet of his 2015 song The Less I Know The Better. They also performed together at a concert in Sydney while on her Radical Optimism tour. Perth band Coterie also won big, taking home the award for most performed alternative work. Brothers Tyler, Joshua, Brandford and Conrad Fisher were born in New Zealand but grew up in Perth, where they formed the indie band in 2016. Other notable wins included Troye Sivan receiving an award for songwriter of the year and Kylie Minogue recognised with the Ted Albert Award for outstanding service to Australian music. Minogue couldn't accept the award in person due to her upcoming concert in LA but said her '17-year-old me would not be able to compute the life that music has given me'. 'This is such an honour. I am completely over the moon. I'm only sad that I'm not with you in person. If I was with you in person, we would all be celebrating together. But I am celebrating here on tour,' she said via a pre-recorded speech. 'I mean, we all know it's work. You work for it. But I feel like whatever we give and whatever it might take from us, we receive more. 'And as I'm on tour at the moment, I'm singing songs throughout my entire catalogue. So, from the first one, The Locomotion, right up to songs from Tension. And I'm really aware of, I guess, the passage of time and how much more music means to me. 'I do have some family there tonight to accept the award on my behalf, so behave. I'll be checking in on you.'
