Veils Frontman Has Accomplished a Cool Rarity

Lead singer and songwriter for London-based band The Veils, New Zealander Finn Andrews, 29, has “accomplished something rare and cool, namely a guitar-based record that transcends easy categorization,” according to Vancouver online news source Straight.com. And “despite what he’s pulled off with [the band’s fourth and latest album] Time Stays, We Go, Andrews isn’t the kind of guy who sits around the house completely convinced of his own genius. ‘You spend so much of your internal life preparing for a record – writing it and then recording it – and it’s all done in solitary confinement,’ the singer says.” His father Barry Andrews was a forming member of 80’s bands like XTC and Shriekback and later went on to play with Iggy Pop and David Bowie. The Veils are currently on tour in North America.  


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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…