3/1/2024 0 Comments Zed counter zed![]() “Tonight you have our permission to just go back to when you were 18 years old,” said King at one point. ”įrom that Hot Chick moment came a run of hits including ‘ She Glows’, ‘ Come on Down’ and ‘ Oh! Daisy’ (still good). “Hometown, packed house, I couldn’t be a happier man. “Oh man, what a treat,” beamed Nathan King. ![]() Still, it was totally sold out, the crowd complete with boisterous lads giving each other wet willies and apologetic ladies shimmying through to get to the awkwardly placed toilet right by the side of the stage. Needless to say, The Church was much smaller than the 10,000 strong crowd at Queen Elizabeth Park in 2001. My enduring memory is me, on tiptoes, screaming “PLAY ‘ OH! DAISY ’” from roughly 5000km away from the stage. “Just going no real detailz see what I did there!” he replied, unhelpfully. I texted to ask if he remembered anything about the show. It was one of the final nights of Zed’s Future You reunion tour at The Church in Ōtautahi, and approximately 22 years since my Dad took me to see them perform at the Summer Hummer in Masterton at the age of 10. I couldn’t get close enough to see if Ben Campbell still had his labret piercing but, spiritually, it was there. Nathan King could have stepped right out of the mid-2000s with his tight black jeans, sweatbands and neon lip printed T-shirt, still giving as much frenetic, wide-eyed energy as he committed to the Renegade Fighter video 23 years ago. The number of grey hairs and crisp checked shirts in the mosh highlighted just how much time had marched on since white dreadlocks were in vogue.įrighteningly, Zed themselves didn’t appear to have changed at all (aside from the absence of dreads). But, then again, who can really blame us for being a bit slow and tired? It was nearly 10.30pm and it had been over two decades since we were first lured in by that deceptive twinkly intro. Yes, the Gen X and millennial crowd looked like extras in the least athletic Rebel Sport ad of all time. Two decades since their live show last set her soul on fire, Alex Casey attends one of the final nights of Zed’s 2023 reunion tour.
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