Nadia Reid Announces Enter Now Brightness Tour 2025

Now based in Manchester, raising a family half a world away from her hometown of Port Chalmers, Nadia Reid makes Aotearoa fans very happy with news of her imminent return. Glowingly praised by The Guardian as "remarkably peaceful and restorative," Reid will be back touring her fourth studio album Enter Now Brightness across Australasia this December — starting in Christchurch and Auckland, hopping over the Tasman for shows in Sydney and Melbourne, then concluding the tour in Wellington and Dunedin just before Christmas.

Recorded with producer Tom Healy (Tom Healy), long-term collaborator Sam Taylor and her bandmates, Reid's latest album represents a new chapter for the globally beloved songwriting star, articulating "themes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak." Don't miss Reid at the following headline dates — brought to you by Banished Music...

"I think for me, becoming a mother brought all of [the issues of] the inner child and all of my own mothering right back up to the surface ... A lot of women say that when they’ve had babies they’ve said to their own mums ‘Thank you so much!’ because they have this revelation of what their mother’s sacrificed for them. And I guess I had that in a different way ... The most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger ... I’m so much better off now that it exists."

Nadia Reid Enter Now Brightness Tour 2025

Friday 5th December - The Piano, Christchurch
Saturday 6th December - The Powerstation, Auckland
Wednesday 10th December - Vanguard, Sydney
Thursday 11th December - Howler, Melbourne
Friday 12th December - Meow Nui, Wellington
Friday 19th December - Regent Theatre, Dunedin

Presale 10am, Wednesday 16th April
General on sale 10am, Friday 18th April
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Robyn Malcolm and DeeDee Comet star in the touching clip for 'Baby Bright', from Enter Now Brightness...

Hit play on Reid's upbeat and ever-questing 'Hotel Santa Cruz', from Enter Now Brightness...

Press release:

This December acclaimed songwriter Nadia Reid journeys back to New Zealand and Australia in celebration of Enter Now Brightness; her critically lauded fourth album which was released on Chrysalis in February 2025.

The Manchester-based expatriate New Zealander is known for her ruminative and well-crafted folk-inflected songwriting, and with Enter Now Brightness she presents a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy.

On this record, Reid moves ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own. “I still feel uncomfortable about the word folk and being a folk singer. It makes me sort of cringe,” she says. “It’s too confining.” She has grown weary, too, of all the inevitable likenings, to Mitchell and Dylan and more.

Since ‘Out of My Province” (2020), Reid toured the record as best she could and put on hold her plans to move to the UK. In July of 2021, she gave birth to her first daughter, Elliotte; her second, Goldie, arrived Spring 2024. Shortly before, Reid finally relocated to the UK, settling in Manchester.

Enter Now feels different. It is an album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” That through music we can find great change. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”