New Zealand group Half/Time to perform alongside artists who sing in Cymraeg as part of musical cultural exchange
, one of the young bands whose Welsh-language songs are receiving national and international attention.
The New Zealand band accept that punk is “not necessarily” a genre of music associated with Te Ao Māori but argue there are parallels such as beliefs on the importance of community and resistance. Wairehu Grant, the band’s guitarist, who describes himself as a “dusty weirdo lurking in the depths of Kirikiriroa [Hamilton]”, saidgrew out of the “cosmic hellscape” of 2020 when the pandemic gripped the world, one of its intentions being to “address the lingering impacts of colonisation in modern Aotearoa [New Zealand] ”.
Their EP, out soon, is called Scary Stories to Tell When You’re Dark, and their songs include lines such as “Come find us/Out where the industrial waste meets rural religious real-estate/In every home, between every floorboard and in every silence/You will find us there.” Grant said: “Music has proven to be a powerful tool for engaging with the language of my whakapapa [ancestors] through performance and collaboration. It has helped to shift my headspace from one of embarrassment over my lack of knowledge, to one of hope and excitement for all that I have yet to learn.” He also said the trip was a chance to “infiltrate a dude-getting-a-pointy-crown celebration party”.
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