Herriot Row

Lesser Stars (Southbound)

For the previously uninformed or initiated – including yours truly – Herriot Row (just the one r thanks) is the name of a street in Dunedin, home to The Chills, The Clean etc and the adopted alias of songwriter Simon Comber, whose mentors include Mike Chunn and Neil Finn, who discovered him at a Sacred Heart College fundraiser in Auckland in the early years of the new millennium. Lesser Stars is one of those albums that threatens to suffocate you with it’s simple beauty and the intimate intensity of the lyrics of Learning Not To Talk, The Beggar and Song For A Shadow .As earnest as Comber can sometimes seem, his largely acoustic songwriting style has echoes of some of the great hippie singer-songwriters of the late 60s and early 70s. Mike Alexander