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Mel Parsons, being one of New Zealand’s leading singer-songwriters of this era, is a favourite artist of the She’ll Be Right Show.
It was with great pleasure that we talked with her in the lead-up to the regional Sabotage tour-opening concert at East Auckland’s beloved Uxbridge Arts and Culture in Howick on Thursday, September 12. Tickets at www.plus1.co.nz
Mel Parsons’ Bandcamp page says: ‘Sabotage sees the award-winning Lyttelton-based artist exploring darker, melancholic territory on tracks like Offer Down, Little Sadness, and Circling the City.
‘They sit alongside songs such as 5432, the gorgeous Hoping For Rain, and the brooding Sabotage, from which the album takes its name. Also featuring is the track Hardest Thing, which Parsons recently won the MLT Songwriting Award.’
Parsons says: “I like the word, especially with its layered meanings. Sabotage comes in many forms. Self-sabotage is the main one in focus here, but leaving it open to however people want to interpret appeals to me as well.
“It was a different process to making previous records – a more collaborative vibe in that it was just two of us who put the whole thing together,” she says.
“We jumped around on the instrumentation – I played guitars and some drums; [producer] Josh [Logan] played everything else, and together we pulled the tracks into some kind of song form.”
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