The Narcs – Heart of Aotearoa

Iconic Kiwi band The Narcs will play a one-off show on Saturday 25th September at the Wunderbar, Lyttelton as part of their ‘Heart Of Aotearoa’ Tour.
From playing their first shows in Christchurch in the winter of 1980, the band were rarely off the road, opening for Queen and Elton John at Mt Smart Stadium and touring the country with Midnight Oil, Split Enz and Cold Chisel.
The Narcs had a slew of radio hits and took out numerous RIANZ awards. Singer guitarist Andy Dickson was a male vocalist finalist in 1984. In 1986 Tony Waine won the APRA Silver Scroll for Abandoned By Love. Their recording legacy includes three EP’s “Narcs” and “No Turning Back”, “Early Singles”, three studio albums “The Great Divide” (1984), “The Narcs” (1986) “Push The Boat Out” (1996), and a compilation “Best of The Narcs” (2002).
More recently, the band released three new singles/videos ‘Summerhill Stone’, ‘Not Over’ and ‘I Don’t Want To Go To Work Today’ plus the 7-track ‘Early Singles’ released digitally on 21st July 2021. They also appeared at Canterbury’s Selwyn Sounds, toured NZ with Australia’s Psuedo Echo, hit the road with the ‘Not Over Summer Tour’ in 2019, headlined Nelson’s Marchfest 2019, played a series of The Narcs Unplugged winter and summer tours in NZ and Australia, and opened for Icehouse at Auckland’s Aotea Centre before a sold-out audience in March 2020.