September 1, 2021

Don McGlashan Announces New Album + Tour

Don McGlashan has announced his eagerly-awaited new album today. Bright November Morning will come out on October 29th, followed by an eight date tour across New Zealand, beginning November 11.

Don McGlashan This will be McGlashan’s fourth solo album, and is an essential addition to his remarkable output. It has all the glittering McGlashan touches in place: from the detail-perfect narratives of local life (the neighbours looking in when we take the curtains down, swimming and seeing Russian container ships on the horizon) to the strummy melodicism with detours into something noisier (hello Shayne P Carter, ruffling the immaculate surfaces), and on to those welcome and welcoming choruses.

Recorded in Lyttelton, Auckland and Vancouver, and full of inspired playing from his band The Others: Shayne P Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer), Chris O’Connor (SJD, Phoenix Foundation) and James Duncan (SJD, Dimmer), Bright November Morning marks a new stage in Don McGlashan’s generous and humane songbook.

**Don McGlashan & The Others Bright November Morning Tour Dates:**

Thur Nov 11   Christchurch   James Hay Theatre
Fri Nov 12      Dunedin            Glenroy Auditorium
Thur Nov 18   Hastings        Toitoi – Opera House
Fri Nov 19      Wellington      Opera House
Sat Nov 20      Nelson             Theatre Royal
Thur Nov 25   Tauranga      Totara St
Fri Nov 26      Auckland        Powerstation
Sat Nov 27      Leigh               Sawmill Cafe

Tickets On Sale Wednesday, September 1st, 9.00 a.m. from www.donmcglashan.com

Don McGlashan has been weaving his stories for the last four decades, most recently with three acclaimed solo albums – Warm Hand (2006), Marvellous Year (2009), and Lucky Stars (2015).

His soaring gospel song “Bathe In The River” (APRA Silver Scroll winner 2006), performed by Hollie Smith, has become one of the biggest NZ singles of all time. It has recently had a resurgence via the te reo Māori version, ‘Kōrukutia’, released earlier in 2021.

McGlashan first stepped into the limelight as drummer and lead singer in the 80’s agit-punk outfit Blam Blam Blam. They produced a string of Top 20 singles and a well-loved album Luxury Length. Don’s hit song ‘Don’t Fight It, Marsha, It’s Bigger Than Both Of Us’ won Song Of The Year in the 1982 NZ Recording Industry Awards.

Next McGlashan co-founded the acoustic duo, The Front Lawn, with Harry Sinclair. Combining theatre, songs and much humour, they found fans the world over, and their 1987 album Songs From The Front Lawn was the soundtrack for a generation of young Kiwis getting lost around Europe in their Kombi vans.

McGlashan’s place in the Great Aotearoa Songbook further solidified as, fronting his band The Mutton Birds, he created a string of now iconic Kiwi anthems. These include ‘Anchor Me’ (APRA Silver Scroll winner 1994), ‘Dominion Road’ (1992) and their inspired cover of The Formyula’s ‘Nature’ (1992).