Vera Ellen Shares Single 'Carpenter' + Announces NZ Tour

Everything's coming up Vera Ellen! Not long ago named Best Alternative Artist at the Aotearoa Music Awards and fresh from a captivating opening set at Marlon Williams' Civic show, Vera Ellen and her band share news of a nationwide tour and announce they've got another whole album up their sleeve. The Pōneke-based pop-rocker will be unveiling their sophomore effort Ideal Home Noise at the end of March this year, which will be their second release on legendary label Flying Nun after unleashing stunner LP It's Your Birthday in October 2021, and will also feature Radio New Zealand’s Best Singles of 2022 track 'Homewrecker'.

As if the news couldn't get any better, Vera Ellen has also lifted the lid on lead single 'Carpenter', a bolshie and beautiful song about asking for help when you need it. The track lands alongside a Sports Team-produced video made with support from NZ On Air and directed by me, Annabel Kean (UTR acting editor by day, Sports Team creative director also by day). Get a load of the tour dates below, and read what Vera Ellen had to say about 'Carpenter'...

"We are all quietly fighting our own battles. There is a "feeling I get about having to fight them alone, keeping them close to my chest in shame. But I think we really all need to learn how to lean on each other. We would be more compassionate people, if we had the slightest window into someone else's experience; their pain, their fear, their life. Carpenter is inspired by that. It's a desperate cry, but there's a triumph in being able to ask for help."

Vera Ellen Ideal Home Noise NZ Tour
Friday 31st March - Dive, Dunedin
Saturday 1st April - Wunderbar, Christchurch
Friday 14th April - Whammy, Auckland
Saturday 15th April - San Fran, Wellington
Tickets available via ticketfairy.com

Here's the first of a dramatic three-part music video series to accompany the Ideal Home Noise singles...

'Ideal Home Noise' is out digitally, on vinyl and CD on Friday March 31st via Flying Nun Records.

Press release:

Recently named ‘Best Alternative Artist’ at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, Wellington-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vera Ellen has announced her upcoming album, Ideal Home Noise, which is out digitally and on both red or black vinyl and CD on Friday March 31st, 2023 via Flying Nun Records. Purchase/Pre-save Ideal Home Noise here. Alongside the new album announcement, Vera has shared the first single from the album, ‘Carpenter’ with a Sports Team directed video, purchase/stream/watch 'Carpenter' here. Plus, Vera Ellen and her band will take to the road on album release for a four-date tour of Aotearoa, playing headline shows in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Tickets onsale now from Banished Music.