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Thursday 16 September 8:45 a.m.
Coming on like a teenage Joan Jett with a drum machine, all Pulp Fiction bangs and kaleidoscopic baton swinging, Zowie (aka Auckland’s Zoe Fleury) is a futuristic cheerleader from planet Wow.
A whip-smart 22 year old karate-proficient Kiwi with a penchant for percussion, a hyperglycemic imagination and a dizzying creative ferocity, described by one music critic as “a tiny dynamo of electrifying, positive energy” Zowie has distilled a bubbling mix of vintage synth-pop, shimmering electro, playground chants and rock n roll swagger to create a moxy-fuelled sound all of her own.
As a beat-obsessed adolescent Zowie matched her encyclopedic enthusiasm for drumming by mastering everything she needed to fully flesh out her own songs: vocals, guitar and programming.
After majoring in drums for a Diploma in Contemporary Music at the Music and Audio Institute of NZ or (M.A.I.N.Z), she created enough buzz with laptop crafted demos to garner radio airplay, and in the past 18 months she’s performed at some of the country’s biggest festivals – The Big Day Out, Rhythm And Vines – as well as opening for the likes of The Kills and Peaches.
2010 has also seen Zowie travel around the world on a writing trip towards her debut album – the list of collaborators is as wide and varied as Zowie’s musical heroes.
Her debut single ‘Broken Machine’ will be released in September through Sony Music, featuring a slew of remixes from the likes of RAC, WaWa and Computers Want Me Dead, as well as a technological kaleidoscope of a video from Special Problems.
Zowie will also be heading over to the United States to perform at CMJ Music Marathon in New York this October.