Don McGlashan Tickets

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 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 and 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, which 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 including ‘Anchor Me’ (APRA Silver 

Scroll winner 1994), ‘Dominion Road’ (1992) and their inspired cover of The Formyula’s ‘Nature’ 

(1992).