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Nadia toddles off to a UK life Dance through the dark days, says P!nk

- Read the full interview at stuff.co.nz

‘‘Idon’t know how I’ve ended up doing this, but I’ll be flying halfway around the world on my own with a toddler.’’

Such is the life of a Kiwi musician attempting to break into the world market – but if her already sold out UK tour points to anything for singersong­writer Nadia Reid, then it will all be worth it.

Reid last Wednesday played an intimate farewell show at Auckland’s Wine Cellar, previewing new songs due to appear on a yet-to-be announced fourth album and reeling off favourites from a career that’s seen her shortliste­d for all the major awards in New Zealand.

It was a lovely goodbye gig – but it might also be quite a long time til we see Reid again, as she told the audience she had always wanted to live in the UK as her mum had come from there and she was looking forward to spending time there with her 18-month-old daughter Elliotte. She did say she would ‘‘probably see you again once the new album is out’’ – but admitted that could be a way off yet.

The UK should be good pickings for the 31-year-old who was part of the Kiwi wave of musos to make a splash there (think Marlon Williams and Aldous Harding) in the late 2010s, and she appeared on the influentia­l Later... with Jules Holland show in 2017. Here’s hoping this new venture pays off for her.

LIFE might be pretty whirlwind for outspoken pop superstar P!nk, but she still just wants

‘‘to f...ing dance’’.

In a wide-ranging interview with Stuff’s

Bridget Jones today, the 43-year-old opens up about the haters, the personal losses, her family (she’s mum to daughter Willow Sage and son Jameson Moon and been married to husband Carey Hart for 17 years) and her ninth album, the newly released Trustfall, which she’ll be bringing to New Zealand in March

2024 with the the

Summer Carnival

Stadium tour.

She tells Jones the album arose from her enforced Covid downtime – ‘‘I did get really good at making sourdough, I made some friendship bracelets, I read some books’’ – and the result was party bangers you want to get up and dance to, and heartfelt letters to those lost.

‘‘[The album] feels whole. Because on one hand, it’s like man, it’s really hard. Life is really hard and adulting and loving people and being in a relationsh­ip and having children and losing your father and grief,’’ she says. ‘‘And on the other hand, [that’s] enough. I just want to dance, I want to f…ing dance.’’

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