Big fish, little fish

Bic Runga talks about her new album, Birds, her “secret little country,” and being a big fish in a small pond in The Guardian. The biggest selling solo artist of all time in NZ, Runga recently moved to London in a bid to raise her international profile. “[Runga] was an instant hit at home, which says much about the adventurousness of Kiwi musical taste: the British equivalent would be Beth Orton becoming the UK’s biggest solo star Ö Despite her European style and sensibility Runga seems very much a product of the place where she was born – ‘a dark and mysterious place,’ as she puts it.”