The Spring Lounge Tour Dates

Greg will be playing a series of shows across New Zealand in November, including a very special televised show, details below. Mailing list members will get an opportunity to be first in line for tickets, so if you haven’t joined Greg’s mailing , now is the time!

The November includes South Island shows in Christchurch, Nelson and Picton, while North Island fans can savour shows in Wellington, Auckland, Huapai and Waiuku. Tickets are on general sale from Tuesday October 6 via Ticketmaster.co.nz (all North Island dates except Wellington) and Ticketek.co.nz (South Island dates plus Wellington). Says Greg: “There’s nothing better than hitting the long roads of Aotearoa for a rejuvenating Spring tour, catching up with everyone plus meeting new friends.”We’re taking the Spring Lounge tour to eclectic venues in main centres and in the outskirts – performing at a winery, boathouse, jazz club, historic hotel, a TV show, even uncle Pat’s back shed!”
In support, Auckland’s Lisa Crawley will perform songs from her acclaimed new album All In My Head, before joining Greg and band to play singles, album tracks and take a few requests from right across his 10-album career.
“Lisa’s new album is really great and I’m looking forward to hearing her open the shows. She’s a much better piano player than me and looks better in a dress. We recently recorded a duet together for a very special cause to be released next month and I’m pleased she’s on board for the tour too.”
The catalyst for this tour has been Juice’s invitation to Greg to play a televised concert – one of three TV specials announced today for their Juice Bar Legends series celebrating some of New Zealand’s favourite artists.
“I feel honoured to be called a legend, or as the dictionary says “popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated” – seems fair to me.”
Juice TV’s Dan Wrightson says Greg was an obvious choice for the Juice Legends show, after 20 years of delivering songs with great stories and melodies.“Greg’s voice, music and songs are part of the DNA of New Zealand music and of course, Juice TV & J2. A chance to capture the great man in action is one not to be missed – first live in an intimate setting at Juice Bar then later reliving the magic on TV.”

Complete dates and ticketing for the Greg Johnson Spring Lounge Tour:

CHRISTCHURCH Dux Live, Thurs Nov 14 (Ticketek.co.nz )
NELSON The Boathouse, Fri Nov 15 (Ticketek.co.nz & Everyman Records)
PICTON Le Café Picton, Sat Nov 16 (Ticketek.co.nz & venue)
WELLINGTON Meow, Sun Nov 17, doors 4pm (Ticketek.co.nz)
AUCKLAND Juice Bar , Parnell, Fri Nov 22 (Ticketmaster.co.nz & venue)
WAIUKU Kentish Hotel, Sat Nov 23 (Ticketmaster.co.nz & venue)
HUAPAI Coopers Creek Vineyard, Sunday afternoon Nov 24, (Ticketmaster.co.nz & venue)

Nice words from Ted Brown

Ted recently wrote about the making of Here Comes The Caviar on his blog, there’s some great memories and Ted is a fine writer, so please check it out. His album is pretty good too!

Click here to read Ted’s blog

Stranger’s Gallery

Stranger’s Gallery is a collection of 13 of Greg’s songs and 14 pieces of artwork that were inspired by the songs.. The CD is limited to 100 worldlwide and comes in a spiral bound book, featuring all the works of art, comments by the artists and comments on the artwork by Greg. We will never repress this, so get in quick! Available now HERE

Los Angeles Belongs To You.

In the L.A. Times recently , journalist Steve Lopez wrote a piece about how Los Angeles didn’t really have a theme song, a song that was truly associated with the city and called for Los Angeles based songwriters to submit songs for their home town. Greg responded with this song, and was featured in the LA times follow up article today [Saturday 2nd March].