Nadia Reid To Record Debut Album

June 2014

Dear friends,

I am writing to let you all know about a collection of songs I have written. 10 songs that have been brewing and shaping both recently and over the last year. Now the time has come to record these songs and make an album. The project is to take place under the trusted hand of Ben Edwards (The Sitting Room/Lyttelton Records) and is booked to happen mid July.

For a while now I have tossed and turned with the idea of crowd funding, feeling strange and uncomfortable about asking for money to pursue a self-indulgent dream, especially one that I never remember choosing. Learning to trust and lean into the idea that the music I write has the ability to connect with others, even people I have never met, and ables me to make sense of all the weird things that life brings makes it easier and clearer for me to give this a good go. I have come to realize that making music is a cleansing and healthy way for me to exist. When I am creating, performing and taking risks in the business of music I feel my most fulfilled.

This Pledge Me campaign is to enable friends and extended friends to support this New Album project either by ‘pre-ordering’ or pledging a smaller or higher amount. All amounts received will be equally appreciated. The support of others, monetary or other, is crucial to any-one who chooses to undertake the artistic world, without it I could not pursue any of this. I have never recieved any type of funding before and will work my hardest for this.

The album will be released October 2014 followed by a NZ wide Album Release tour. Below is a time-frame and breakdown of costs. I welcome any comments or feedback. Please send to hellonadiareid@gmail.com

Funds raised will be distributed to cover cost of:

Engineers fee

Mixing & mastering fee

CD Pressing costs

Session musician fee

Travel Costs

Vinyl pressing costs

Digital sale costs

Promo & tour costs

Video production costs

Time Frame: 4 months

A budget and extensive breakdown of costs can be supplied if any person is interested. Costs in bold will take priority.

My heartfelt thanks-in-advance to any of you who choose to support this. Any amount will help and if you cannot afford but endorse me undertaking this please let me know. Those things mean just as much, if not more.

Link to PledgeMe Campaign: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/2182

Here goes!

N

Half way

We’re just over halfway of this tour! We’ve had a blast, so many stories to tell you… Here are the remaining shows left

Thursday 9 May – The Darkroom, Chch
Friday 10 May – Hilltop Tavern, Little River
Saturday 11 May – Chick’s Hotel, Port Chalmers
Sunday 12 May – New Edinborough Folk Club, Dunedin
Tuesday 14 May – Federal Diner, Wanaka
Wednesday 15 May – Donovan’s Store, Okarito
Thursday 16 May – Barrytown Hall, Barrytown
Friday 17 May – The Boathouse, Nelson
Saturday 18 May - The Tin Hut, Featherston
Monday 20 May – Evil Genius NZ Music Month Potluck Dinner, Wellington
Wednesday 22 May – The Moorings, Wellington
Thursday 23 May – Rhythm Upstairs, New Plymouth
Friday 24 May – The Wine Cellar, Auckland
Saturday 25 May - The Funky Fish, Bayly’s Beach
Sunday 26 May – Golden Dawn, Auckland

xxxxxx

New shows!

New shows added to the lineup!

We’re going to be playing at the Tin Hut in Featherston on Saturday 18th May, and at Funky Fish Cafe & Bar in Bayly’s Beach on Saturday 25th May! There are limited tickets available to the Funky Fish show, so make sure you buy your tickets early at: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/tour/2720/Nadia-Reid-And-Luckless—Ballads-And-Badlands-Tour.utr

Thursday 9 May – The Darkroom, Chch
Friday 10 May – Hilltop Tavern, Little River
Saturday 11 May – Chick’s Hotel, Port Chalmers
Sunday 12 May – New Edinborough Folk Club, Dunedin
Tuesday 14 May – Federal Diner, Wanaka
Wednesday 15 May – Donovan’s Store, Okarito
Thursday 16 May – Barrytown Hall, Barrytown
Friday 17 May – The Boathouse, Nelson
Saturday 18 May - The Tin Hut, Featherston
Monday 20 May – Evil Genius NZ Music Month Potluck Dinner, Wellington
Wednesday 22 May – The Moorings, Wellington
Thursday 23 May – Rhythm Upstairs, New Plymouth
Friday 24 May – The Wine Cellar, Auckland
Saturday 25 May - The Funky Fish, Bayly’s Beach
Sunday 26 May – Golden Dawn, Auckland

 

see you on the road x

It's a tour, ladies and gentlemen.... !

Nadia Reid & Luckless: The Ballads and Badlands Tour 2013

We choose what we carry with us. All things must be selected carefully, balanced, weighed, and packed so as to abandon nothing of consequence. This Music Month, for their Ballads and Badlands Tour Nadia Reid and Luckless have parsed their emotional and physical baggage down to size so as to free-wheel down the highway, through drought, storm and tussock, offering their stories and songs to whoever will lend them an ear.

Their station-wagon is small, but carries a lot of weight: the lyrics, the guitars, the histories and hopes; stories of the ashes and rubble left lining streets both real and metaphorical. Together, Reid and Ivy Rossiter of Luckless form a part of a new generation of songwriters born to take to their stories the road, to pin their words and harmonies to hearts and minds as far and wide as possible. This is no gloss-laden floss-pedaling romp through a handful of chords. Both performers craft work laden with texture and space, light and dark, tales of joy and sorrow blending with the feeling of the in-between.

Nadia Reid is one of the great, young musical prodigies at work in New Zealand today. At only 21, her much lauded EP sent critics spiraling with praise. Raised in Port Chalmers, coming of age in the musical mecca of Christchurch and now building towers of song in the metropolis of Auckland, Reid presents tales of love and loss through a new-folk glass, echoing songwriters such as Beth Orton or Laura Marling. She carries her stripped back, acoustic songs to audiences with poise and a grace that belies her young age.

Formerly of Auckland, now living as a musical nomad, Ivy Rossiter has been burning the candle at both ends around the country since releasing Luckless’s debut album in 2012. Her electrified take on the craft of songwriting, combined with a predilection for unexpected and challenging musical directions, have melted hearts across the country, calling audiences back for more. With an arsenal of new songs and a second record on the boil, Rossiter has tire-tracks on her heels and fire in her blood, ready to bruise a heart or two along the way.

Together, Reid and Luckless are an arresting combination – Reid’s acoustic new-folk cadence and clarity meld with Rossiter’s distorted abrasiveness and looping chaos; the breadth and beauty of the show culminating in a collaborative set of badland ballads, both new originals and long-familiar favourites.

The Ballads and Badlands Tour will be visiting towns nationwide from the 9th to the 26th of May Music Month 2013 . Tickets available from www.undertheradar.co.nz.

Thursday 9 May – The Darkroom, ChCh

Friday 10 May – Hilltop Tavern, Little River

Saturday 11 May – Chick’s Hotel, Port Chalmers

Sunday 12 May – New Edinborough Folk Club, Dunedin

Tuesday 14 May – Federal Diner, Wanaka

Wednesday 15 May – Donovan’s Store, Okarito

Thursday 16 May – Barrytown Hall, Barrytown

Friday 17 May – The Boathouse, Nelson

Monday 20 May – Evil Genius NZ Music Month Potluck Dinner, Wellington

Wednesday 22 May – The Moorings, Wellington

Thursday 23 May – Rhythm Upstairs, New Plymouth

Friday 24 May – The Wine Cellar, Auckland

Sunday 26 May – Golden Dawn, Auckland

Read more: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/6540/Nadia-Reid-and-Luckless-Announce-May-Tour.utr#ixzz2Pr06xhNv

Dharma Bums Club / Dharma Shed..... Wairau Valley (The Best Place On Earth)

We had the best time out in the middle of the Wairau last night playing in an idyllic little club house home to Pete and Nancy of the Dharma Bums Club. Thanks to those who came out, and hi to the new friends we made. Now we find ourselves in Nelson preparing to play in a Yurt at The Freehouse tonight. A Free show from 8pm. We’re buzzing, happy and feeling very brought back down to earth. Tomorrow we head back to the Wairau to hang out on the Dharma farm. I’ll spend the next two days in solitude picking up horse poo and playing with the dogs.

We’re half way now and the following is our game plan

Saturday 16th: The Freehouse, Nelson
Wednesday 20th: Le Cafe, Picton
Thursday 21st: Meow, Wellington
Friday 22nd: Matinee, New Plymouth
Saturday 23rd: The Wine Cellar, Auckland
Sunday 24th: Golden Dawn, Auckland

Love to all,

N