ALTERNATIVE - INDIE ROCK
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Vera Ellen is a Wellington/Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and wildly prolific songwriter, who some may recognise from LA band Girl Friday (Hardly Art), or grungy NZ 4-piece Maple Syrup.

2022 saw Vera Ellen release her Flying Nun debut, It’s Your Birthday, an album stacked full of hooked-to-the-brim melodies, and cleverly guided by Vera’s clear, confident and relaxed vocal presence.

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Following her win at the 2022 Aotearoa Music Awards, where she was named ‘Best Alternative Artist’, and a soaring Flying Nun debut with album, It’s Your Birthday, Vera released her newest album Ideal Home Noise, on Friday 31 March, 2023.

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“If It's Your Birthday was about relationships and love and strife between myself and others; then Ideal Home Noise is about love and strife between myself and myself.“, says Vera

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Vera has had multiple tracks featured in the NZ Official Alt Charts. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the record was described as a “constant battle between bright rhythm and wry self-deprecation opposite heavy beats and raw emotion”.

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“It shouldn’t be any other way, though, because it’s this dichotomy that makes Ellen one of the sharpest songwriters to emerge from Aotearoa in a long time.” - Rolling Stone AU.

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When Vera is in New Zealand, she makes great use of her time —  opening for the likes of Don McGlashan, Reb Fountain, Marlon Williams and joining the lineup for three sold out shows with indie darlings, The Beths.

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Vera’s live show is magical, unmissable and utterly captivating.