Bent Horseshoe Presents Looking For Alaska

This is one I have been eagerly anticipating since lockdown last year.

I saw them on Facebook at a house concert and rang them straight away as I was so impressed and had to see if they would come and share their music with us in Palmerston North.

At the time they were finishing off their new album and that is what they will be playing at the concert.
They have just finished a tour of the South Island and now are embarking on one of the Nth. It is our turn to see these great musicians.

Like two weary vagabonds hitch-hiking along the open road with nothing but a guitar and a suitcase of songs and wayward memories, folk-pop duo Looking For Alaska are ready to set the music scene alight.

Members Aaron Gott and Amy Maynard offer up a sound rooted in country-style guitar and soaring harmonies woven together at their very fiber, intensified by their on-stage chemistry. The duo's familiarity, closeness and authenticity is fueled by their real-life romance, creating a magnetic performance style that captivates their audience time and time again, and has seen them open for the likes of Fly My Pretties, Herbs and Tiny Ruins, and as a featured act at the ​Canterbury Folk Festival.

Having performed together extensively since they bonded during a recording assignment at music school in 2012, Aaron and Amy embarked upon their newest musical endeavour Looking For Alaska two years ago, and have since worked tirelessly to create a collection of original material, ranging from thigh-slapping, foot-stomping folk sing-alongs, to poignant heart-rending ballads drenched in melancholy.

In 2016, Looking For Alaska and their band spent 2 whirlwind days recording at the legendary Roundhead Studios in Auckland; what emerged was their self titled debut album Looking For Alaska. Released in October 2016, the album has since spent 5 weeks on the NZ album chart and been a finalist for the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Album award at the 2017 Taite Music Prize.

Since then, Looking For Alaska has been busy touring, playing to sold-out rooms around New Zealand on their album release tour, touring Australia and writing new material.

They have just finished their second album which they are touring at the moment.