Bio

Ten years on since Home Brew's debut E.P. MC Tom Scott delivers a typically honest new project, Avantdale Bowling Club, full of freewheeling rhymes about his struggles growing up, becoming a dad, and segueing into adulthood.

National hip hop icon Tom Scott has been consistently prolific since making waves with seminal Auckland group Home Brew around a decade ago. Known for his highly infectious and eclectic brand of rap, the West Auckland native is arguably the godfather of modern New Zealand hip hop. This latest outing has his trademark flavour but with a pure jazz aesthetic that would be as much at home at a sweaty gig on K Road as it would on someone's lawn for Sunday afternoon drinks. While it's hard to say if this is a jazz record with hip hop, or a hip hop record with jazz, one thing is certain; Scott has peaked musically on ABC and even if he's not performing all the instrumentation involved, he's clearly a phenomenal writer and visionary.


Photo Credit: Jonny Stitt

Band Members:
Tom Scott
Julien Dyne (drums)
Tonga Vaea (keyboards, trumpet)
Ben Turua (bass)
JY Lee (saxophone)

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