Tour News - Theia adds Wellington date to NZ tour + releases 'Holy War' - 14th January 2026

Theia’s upcoming tour will be the only chance for Aotearoa audiences to catch her live in the foreseeable future! 

LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘HOLY WAR’

“Theia opens her album GIRL, IN A SAVAGE WORLD with a track that bursts forth between the earthly and the divine, driven by an instrumentation that seems to breathe between wind and memory” - Roadie Music, Brazil

Celebrated singer and songwriter Theia (Ngaati Tiipaa, Ngaati Aamaru, Te Ahiwaru) will play her first solo headline Aotearoa tour in eight years. These will be her only local shows for the foreseeable future before she heads back to North America to tour, which she will do while juggling a return to study for a Masters Degree.

Theia will perform at Whammy in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) on Friday, February 27th and at Meow in Te Whanaganui-a-Tara (Wellington) on Thursday, March 5th. She is also set to reveal the details of a very special show exclusively for her haukainga in Waikato - watch this space!
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The tour will celebrate the release of Theia’s debut album GIRL, IN A SAVAGE WORLD - listed by Rolling Stone AU / NZ as #3 in their Top 50 New Zealand Albums of 2025.
 
Bold and powerful, GIRL, IN A SAVAGE WORLD is “rooted in giving permanence to mātauranga (knowledge) about the historical impacts of colonisation, and the subsequent cultural revitalisation through music and storytelling”. 
 
The album contains the 2025 AMA-nominated ‘Single of the Year’ ‘BALDH3AD!’ and the new single, the epic opening track ‘Holy War’, which featured in bFM’s Top 10 for two weeks.
 
Deemed as a creative risk for an artist who first emerged on the scene in 2016 with one of New Zealand’s biggest pop radio hits of that year, GIRL, IN A SAVAGE WORLD is a glorious fusion of ethereal alt-folk and Indigenous soul, with art rock influences.
 
Writing for the NZ Listener, respected NZ music critic Graham Reid said: “Exceptional… Here are aural references to the art music of Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson and Kate Bush and other experimentalists… An intelligent, provocative work that sidesteps easy categorisation to create a space and platform of its own. Enchanting and important.”
 
13th Floor reviewer John Bradbury said: “The unflinching political voice that drives this record is also a personal one, shaped by the women who came before her and the future voices she makes space for now. Her declaration is clear. Survival is not the absence of trauma but the transformation of it into mana. It is a cycle of loss and renewal that the album both laments and honours”
 
The album also sent ripples across oceans, wowing audiences and critics in North America, where Theia has been based for the past three years. 
 
Leading US Indigenous platform Native Max said: “With every release Theia reaffirms her place as one of the most innovative indigenous artists on the global stage - unafraid to use her voice, her culture and her artistry to ignite change.” 
 
Canada’s Relentless Indigenous Woman said: “If you’re ready to rise - for yourself, for the Land, for the collective - Theia is your call to action. Every track is an invocation, a spark for the fire that’s been waiting in you: the one that longs for justice and dreams of matriarchy”.
 
Theia will perform with a full band made up of some of Aotearoa’s most talented, rising WOC musicians. In Tāmaki Makaurau, Theia will be joined by special guest and ringa taonga puoro Kōmako, with the Te Whanaganui-a-Tara support act still to be announced. 
 
Although Theia has been performing the songs from GIRL, IN THE SAVAGE WORLD at shows in the USA and Canada, for many local fans this will be the first time they’ve heard them live. She will also present some of her favourite tracks from her illustrious back catalogue. 
 
Theia is a recipient of NZ on Air’s New Music Project Touring pilot fund, which is supported by the NZ Music Commission with the aim of helping local artists to take their music on the road. 

Listen to the album on streaming platforms HERE

Tour Dates:

Whammy, Auckland - Friday February 27th – with special guest Kōmako - TICKETS
Waikato, Venue / details to be announced - Saturday February 28th
Meow, Wellington - Thursday March 5th - TICKETS

Ticket Sales:

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Image - Chris Cuffaro

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