While we were living in Newcastle in 2012 my daughter enrolled in a Music Business Course at the local TAFE and had signed up for singing and guitar lessons. She loved the music crowd at TAFE and she and a group of friends formed a band that occasionally played at pubs around Newcastle. The first time I went along to see her I felt nervous for her, but I didn’t need to be. Six-foot-tall, flame haired and with her own vintage style, she belted out songs like “Whole Lotta Love” with a breath-taking power that I didn’t know she possessed until I saw her on stage. I was awestruck, and I wasn’t the only one. She and her band were starting to get quite a following.
When we returned to New Zealand in December 2013 she continued to do the occasional singing gigs.
At Lizottes, Newcastle – December 2012
At The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – June 2013
At the Diamond Harbour Hall – November 2015
At Rough Diamond, Diamond Harbour – April 2016
At Wunderbar, Lyttelton – 10 October 2020
At Live at the Point – 24 January 2021