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For those of you heading along to the Neko Case shows this week these are the playing times

Tues 19^th of January 2010 – at the Bruce Mason Centre - Auckland

7.30 - doors

8.15 - Steve Abel and the Chrysalids

9.30 - Neko Case and Band

Auckland Tickets on sale from www.ticketmaster.co.nz from 23^rd of October

Wed 20^th and January 2010 – San Francisco Bath House - Wellington.(SOLD OUT)

8pm - Dorrs

9.15 - Seth Frightening

10.15 Neko Case and Band

Thursday 21st January 2010 – San Francisco Bath House - Wellington.

8pm - Dorrs

9.15 - Seth Frightening

10.15 Neko Case and Band

Tickets on sale from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Slow Boat Records

See you there!

The first Neko Case show in Wellington at on the 20th of January has SOLD OUT!

However tickets are still available for the second show on Thursday the 21st of January - get them from Under the Radar or Slow Boat Records

Both shows are at The San Francisco Bath House

Tickets for the Auckland show on Tues 19^th of January 2010 are still available from www.ticketmaster.co.nz

But don't mess around or you might miss out altogether!

The support acts have also been announced and they are

19th of January - The Bruce Mason Centre - Steve Abel and Band

21st of January - Luke Buda and Band

That's right, due to popular demand and the fact that the first show is heading toward a sell out Galesburg has decided to add a new show in Wellington for Neko Case and her band...

Thursday 21st of January - The San Francisco Bath House...tickets on sale soon from Slow Boat Records and www.undertheradio.co.nz

Galesburg and Mystery Girl, are ecstatic to present the inimitable Neko Case and her five peice band in her first-ever New Zealand tour - January 2010.

From her early ‘country noir’ flavoured releases Furnace Room Lullaby and Blacklisted, to the more recent Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Middle Cyclone, Neko Case has established herself as one of the most interesting and arresting songwriters and vocalists to come out of North America. She has won a steadily growing cult audience for her smoky, rich vocals and the downcast beauty of her music.

Her latest and sixth studio album Middle Cyclone shot to the top of charts, debuting at #3 in the Billboard Top 200 in the USA. Critics were likewise rapt: “Neko Case is a force of nature. Her voice can knock you over-- it's one of the strongest in any genre” (Pitchfork); “The best album of her career by a generous margin” (The New Yorker); “her most fearless and arresting record, ruthlessly composed and beautifully recorded” (The Boston Phoenix). Yet Middle Cyclone is only the most recent high mark in a 13-year career which has seen her prowess as a performer and songwriter grow steadily alongside the size and devotion of her audience, both as a solo artist and as a member of supergroup New Pornographers.

Neko Case will be backed at all shows by her longtime 5-piece touring band, including lauded-in-their-own-right multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse and vocalist Kelly Hogan.

• Tues 19^th of January 2010 – at the Bruce Mason Centre – Auckland Tickets on sale from www.ticketmaster.co.nz from 23^rd of October

• Wed 20^th of January 2010 – San Francisco Bath House - Wellington. Tickets on sale from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Slow Boat Records from 23^rd of October