Delaney Davidson Announces Anniversary Tour 2025

Finalist for 2025's prestigious Taite Music Prize with his latest solo album Out Of My Head, Lyttelton songwriting icon Delaney Davidson spins back the wheels of time on his forthcoming Anniversary Tour. Davidson's stature has grown to globally beloved proportions since his breakout solo releases via Reverend Beat Man's VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS in the early '10s — Self Decapitation and the award-winning Bad Luck Man — and subsequent European touring adventures, yet the enigma remains.

And so the polymathic songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / producer / film maker / visual artist has taken it upon himself to announce an eleven date tour with specially assembled group The Anniversaries, featuring Alex Freer, Heather Webb and Mark Hughes. They're opening up Davidson's fourteen album songbook to share "a rocking collection of bangers from his extensive back catalogue as he celebrates the music that got him where he is today".

King of southern gothic songwriting with a love for collaboration, Delaney Davidson is a transformative figure in Ōtautahi music culture and beyond. He's written and recorded with fellow local luminaries including Neil Finn, Marlon Williams, Al Park, Barry Saunders, Tami Neilson, Bruce Russell, Troy Kingi, The Eastern, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Recipient of the New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate award in 2015, Davidson's work has been recognised with such accolades as the APRA New Zealand Country Music Song of the Year — which he was awarded three years in a row! His stagecraft honed by more than two decades of touring, live shows and theatrical productions, do not miss the magic of Delaney Davidson's Anniversary Tour, toasting a convergence of anniversaries this coming July and August...

Delaney Davidson Anniversary Tour

Thursday 10th July - The Yard, Raglan
Friday 11th July - Double Whammy, Auckland
Saturday 12th July - Turner Centre, Kerikeri
Sunday 13th July - Sawmill Cafe, Leigh
Friday 18th July - Meow, Wellington
Saturday 19th July - St. Peter's, Paekākāriki
Sunday 20th July - Paisley Stage, Napier
Friday 25th July - The Crown, Dunedin
Saturday 26th July - Cellar Door, Kinross Winery, Queenstown
Friday 1st August - Theatre Royal, Nelson
Saturday 2nd August - Loons, Lyttelton

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General tickets from 9am, Monday 24th March
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Watch Davidson's video for 'I’m So Depressed', from his 2011 album Bad Luck Man...

Press release:

With multiple album Anniversaries this year, Delaney Davidson takes to the road in July to celebrate his extensive and star studded catalogue with special band The Anniversaries.

15 years ago, Delaney Davidson joined Reverend Beat Man - cult figure, gospel trash preacher, and founder of the hugely influential Swiss record label VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS, to release “Self Decapitation” and a year later “Bad Luck Man”.

Self Decapitation had such hits as Little Heart (Silver Scroll Finalist 2011) and barnstormer Dirty Dozen while Bad Luck Man had You’re a Loser (country music song of the year 2012), as well as I’m So Depressed, and evergreen Time Has Gone. These albums cemented him into the Voodoo Rhythm Family and saw him become a distinct cult figure of the European Touring circuit.

Generally dealing with the darker side of things, Delaney Davidson has been described as “being the reigning king of capturing the essence of “Noir” in Country and Folk Music, pushing at the framework and preconceptions of roots music with his brand of modern gothic Americana.” (Post to Wire).

Having spent the last 20 years as travelling “troubadour" around the globe, sometimes solo, sometimes with accomplices, but always with his Ghost Orchestra, Delaney Davidson has found new focus embracing a love of Aotearoa.

Through his collaborative work with Troy Kingi “ Black Sea, Golden Ladder”, his visual art work with Tame Iti, and his most current album “Out Of My Head” produced by Merk, he has featured such varied talents as Hayley Westenra and Reb Fountain and has toured with Chamber Music New Zealand - all the while continuing to reinvent concepts and challenge expectations, and gaining respect and admiration from audiences.

Delaney Davidson now takes his band of Anniversaries on the local roads around Aotearoa, don’t miss a night of wry sense of humour, some theatre of unease, and a rocking collection of bangers from his extensive back catalogue as he celebrates the music that got him where he is today.