Don McGlashan Spring Tour @ Gonville Town Hall

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Absolute legend of Aotearoa songcraft, Don McGlashan has announced an epic-scale Take It To The Bridge Tour, playing 18 headline dates across the motu from late August to early October. Arts Laureate, twice winner of the APRA Silver Scroll award and helmsman / key member of such pivotal groups as The Mutton Birds, Blam! Blam! Blam! and The Front Lawn, McGlashan will be joined on his springtime odyssey by Anita Clark on violin, keys and backing vocals, who will also open for each shows as Motte (whose solo long player Cold + Liquid was a local release highlight of 2022). Promising tunes from his chart-topping new album Bright November Morning and highlights from throughout his storied songbook, McGlashan explained exactly why he named his intimate new set of shows the Take It To The Bridge Tour... 

"Two reasons that I wanted to call this tour the Take It To The Bridge Tour:

1. I love bridges. Making it possible to get, physically, across major obstacles: rivers, ravines, swamps - seems to me one of the most remarkable things humans can do. It's no wonder that bridges get used as metaphors for healing, co-operation, reconciliation - all those other good things that humans can do, when we put our minds to it.

2. I once saw James Brown at the Red Parrot Disco & Club in New York. It was a three blanket night - meaning that he broke down from over-emotion three times in the course of the evening, and each time, he had to have a blanket thrown over his shoulders and be lead off stage. I felt very privileged, but I was later told that he did that most nights. He also shouted at his band to "Take it to the bridge!" a lot. And every time he did that, that's exactly what they'd do."