All Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Auckland’s Naked and Famous are included in a Guardian list of “12 new bands you have to catch” at one of this summer’s UK music festivals. “[The] New Zealand five-piece make the kind of sparkling indie-dance anthems once brandished by MGMT, all ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ choruses and delirious synth riffs.” The band plays three Dot To Dot festivals in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester during May; Suffolk’s Latitude festival in July; and Reading/Leeds festivals in August.


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…