Music News - Bernie Griffen & Kirsten Warner with The Thin Men announce full New Zealand Tour
19 October 2016 - 0 Comments
The Salvation Tour:
Bernie Griffen & Kirsten Warner
Joined by The Thin Men
Embark on Nationwide Music & Poetry Tour
After four months performing
in Australia, Bernie
Griffen and Kirsten
Warner will be hitting the big wide open joined by The Thin Men, on a 15 date
nationwide tour, covering the length and breadth of
New Zealand this November and December.
Together, long-time collaborators and partners Griffen and Warner are a
force to be reckoned with. Melding together their formidable individual talents
as songwriters and performers, the pair will be performing the heart-wrenching
material off Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men's critically-acclaimed
album, Salvation,
along with the captivating poetry of Kirsten Warner.
Follow them to a watering hole near you, and be saved.
The
Salvation Tour NZ dates:
Bernie Griffen &
Kirsten Warner
with The Thin Men
Thursday 3rd November:
Picton - Le Café
Friday 4th November:
Mapua - The Playhouse
Theatre
Saturday 5th November:
Blackball - The Blackball
Hilton
Friday 11th November:
Barrytown - The Barrytown
Settler's Hall
Saturday 12th November:
Christchurch - Blue Smoke
Thursday 17th November:
Invercargill - House Concert**
Friday 18th November:
Wanaka - Gin & Raspberry
Saturday 19th November:
Gore - House Concert**
Sunday 20th November:
Dunedin - The Edinburgh Folk
Club
Thursday 24th November:
Oamaru - The Grain Store
Friday 25th November:
Rangiora - The Fools of Desire
Thursday 1st December:
Wellington - The Third Eye
w/ The Thin Men
Friday 2nd December:
Whanganui - Whanganui
Musician's Club
w/ The Thin Men
Saturday 3rd December:
Raumati - The Raumati Social
Club
w/ The Thin Men
Monday 5th December:
Auckland - The Devonport Folk
Club at The Bunker
w/ The Thin Men
Tickets will be available soon from UnderTheRadar.co.nz
Further North Island dates to follow
The intriguing video for Burial Groundoff
the 2014 album, Salvation,
was crowd-funded earlier this year and produced by small Auckland production
company, Howl Creative.
It was shown recently at 2016 NOLA Horror
Film Festival.
In the video, director Tom Levesque takes the song on the cinematic journey of
a dishevelled drifter who drags a coffin across the Hauraki Plains towards a
brutal conclusion.
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Kirsten
Warner, armed with a guitar or
sometimes a pen, is an established writer, poet, journalist and musician.
She has written, edited or contributed to over ten non-fiction books and her
novel has just been accepted for publication.
In 2008, she won the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2013, she was shortlisted
in the Cathay
Pacific Travel Media Awards ("Best Magazine Travel
Story") for her piece, Bali’s
Bright Shining Lie, a personal and creative exploration about
visiting an orphanage in Bali. She chaired the Auckland branch of the New
Zealand Society of Authors.
Kirsten joins Bernie in Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men on acoustic guitar and
vocals.
Kirsten
Warner online:
Official Website
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Bernie Griffen is a story-teller:
penning songs about characters real and imagined, existing in a world of
criminals and saints, dusty feet and wounded hearts. Radio New Zealand’s Trevor Reekie described Bernie as “a national treasure”.
Once known as “grandfather of punk”, in 2009 the big-voiced, charismatic figure
started to emerge as a notable singer-songwriter going on to form the band Bernie Griffen and The Grifters,
which attracted a strong cult following, then Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men,
opening for
major international acts such as Emmylou
Harris, Justin
Townes Earle, Kitty,
Daisy and Lewis, Little
Band of Gold and Eilen
Jewell...
A powerful voice full of soul, humour and sadness, he draws influence from
American folk, blues, from the country-rock of Gram Parsons and The Grateful Dead,
the mournful wails of Neil
Young and outlaw country singers like Johnny Cash. Griffen
is a well-travelled performer who sings his heart-felt and unique brand of
psychedelic-folk music with passion and driving delivery.
Bernie Griffen &
The Thin Men online:
Official Website
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