Bryan Ferry announces NZ tour
Posted: Thu Aug 2, 2007 5:22 pm

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British musician Bryan Ferry and West Indian singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading are to perform a double-bill concert in Wellington and Auckland in December.

Ferry, 61, is best known in New Zealand for the songs Slave to Love and Don't Stop the Dance, as well as being the frontman of Roxy Music, which had a string of popular and critically acclaimed albums in the 1970s and 80s.

His latest album, Dylanesque, released this year, is a selection of Bob Dylan covers.

Ferry has been dogged of late by claims he made remarks supporting Nazism - which he has denied.

Ferry told a German magazine that he was impressed by Nazi era art and cinema. But the British press reported that Ferry was praising Nazism.

The Daily Mirror later printed an apology. However, by then, British chain store Marks and Spencer had dropped Ferry as the face of its menswear range.

Armatrading, 56, is best known for a string of hits in the 1980s, including Drop the Pilot and Love and Affection.

Her latest album, Into the Blues, is No. 1 in the American blues album charts.

Armatrading, who will meet Ferry for the first time on tour, last played Wellington in 1979.

"I hope a lot of people do come along and enjoy both shows.

"I remember fondly playing in New Zealand. It's a shame that I haven't been there for quite a while," she told The Dominion Post yesterday.

On the 1979 tour, some of her concerts had to be postponed or cancelled because she was recovering from emergency surgery for benign stomach tumours in Sydney.

She remembers spending time recuperating in New Zealand.

"I went out and looked at penguins, I had quite a good look around actually."

Ferry and Armatrading will play Vector Arena in Auckland on December 3 and the Michael Fowler Centre on December 6.

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