It’s been nearly a year since the band has performed live onstage together. But lead vocalist Justin Johnson has a very good reason as to why: They’ve been busy.“I think a lot of bands could relate to that.

You start out, you get excited, and you’re focused. But we’ve been playing music together for seven or eight years,” he says of him and his bandmates, Wade Durbin and William Godfred. The band members are involved in multiple projects and have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes. But it’s not like they’ll have to relearn their chemistry.“Even for this show, we know we can come back and the energy’s there,' Johnson says. 'That’s kind of how we’ve approached a lot of stuff in the last several years. If we’re excited about it, then we’ll do it.”Johnson recently talked about the rush of being back in his element, taking the band's music to the masses, and what to expect at their non-reunion reunion show.Why the hiatus?We’d just been together for so long and had done so many shows. We still continue to write and record music, but it gets hard to play, to keep it up.

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Three of us have been playing together the whole time as a band, but we’ve had several drummers over the course of the past five years. It’s hard to keep it going, to play so many shows every year. In some ways, it’ll make it more fun when you haven’t played in awhile.

There’s that sort of thrill of getting up in front of people.How does it feel to be back together?It feels good! The person playing drums with us, his name is Jonathan Taylor, and he plays in the funk band The Provels. He’s played some shows with us before, he’s recorded with us a little bit, and I think it’s fun for him that we play different music than he’s used to playing. I think we’re all pretty excited.

For this show, we’re doing a lot of older songs—one of the songs I don’t think we’ve played live in sever or eight years. Since we haven’t played in so long, we wanted to retool a couple of the songs we haven’t played in awhile. It’s been fun to do that, too, just to make it interesting for us as well.What do you see for the band's future?It’s hard to say.

A lot of it has to do with if the show goes over well and we’re excited. I think we’re now at a point where the future would be to play a show every now and then, still continue to write and record music. But you never know what happens.Over the course of the past year, the band’s music has been featured on the silver screen, most notably the independent film The Last Time You Had Fun. How has that process been, and will you do more work like that in the future?In the last year, we've talked to a couple of other filmmakers, so our music may pop up in more stuff.

I never know until their projects are done if it will happen or not. We’re all big movie buffs, so it was fun to try to see if we could hook up with other filmmakers and get our music into their film projects. There’s a film that I’m not sure if they—the movie’s not finished yet—but there is a film that we did music for called Drinksgiving. There are a few songs that we wrote and recorded and submitted, but a lot of times when we talk to a filmmaker.sometimes the process of making a film will go on for two or three years, especially if it’s an indie film.How would you describe a Pretty Little Empire show?When we’re doing a full-on rock show, it is a lot of raw nerves, a lot of energy.

This show, we’re going to do a couple of things that I don’t think we’ve ever done before. We’re playing some songs we haven’t played in a long time and a couple new songs. Having not played in front of people in so long, it helps get your nerves wired so you can get into it more, so it doesn’t become mechanical.Pretty Little Empire will perform at Off Broadway on Friday, August 19, with special guest Joan of Dark.

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Zed is a New Zealand pop rock group, which formed as Supra in 1996 in Christchurch by Ben Campbell on bass guitar, Nathan King on lead vocals and guitar, and Adrian Palmer on drums. In 2000 they added a second guitarist, Andrew Lynch. Their debut album, Silencer (2000), peaked at No. 1 on the New Zealand Albums Chart; while their second album, This Little Empire (November 2003), reached No. 3. Their top 10 singles are 'Glorafilia' (1999), 'Renegade Fighter' (2000) and 'Hard to Find Her' (2003). They toured New Zealand, Australia and United States before disbanding in 2004. They have reformed periodically including in 2017 and again in 2019.

History[edit]

Zed was formed in 1996 as Supra by students at Christchurch's Cashmere High School: Ben Campbell on bass guitar, Nathan King on lead vocals and guitar, and Adrian Palmer on drums.^[1] Initially playing cover versions of work by 'Crowded House, Supergrass, Blur and Radiohead they started getting together in each other's bedrooms to practice the kind of hook laden pop music they were listening to.'^[1] Campbell's father contacted talent manager, and former rock-and-roll artist, Ray Columbus.^[1][2][3] Columbus had them signed to a publishing deal for their original material and booked their early recording sessions.^[1] In 2000 they added Andrew Lynch as second guitarist.^[1]

The band worked with producer David Nicholas on their debut album, Silencer (2000). Rhythm and vocal tracks were recorded at Revolver Studios in Auckland, with final overdubbing and mixing at Mangrove Studios, north of Sydney, Australia. Released in New Zealand later that year, Silencer, debuted at No. 1 on the New Zealand Album Charts, and was certified triple platinum. It provided in six top 40 singles with 'Renegade Fighter' (2000) peaked at No. 4.

The band's second and final album, This Little Empire, was released with two different track lists, one for the New Zealand market in 2003, and another aimed at the United States the following year. In total Zed had ten top 40 singles in New Zealand.^[4]

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Zed disbanded in 2004,^[5] they subsequently reunited for a few live gigs (a 2008 performance at Auckland's Vector Arena,^[6] and two corporate events in 2011).^[7][8] Nathan King launched a solo career, then later sang with band Paper Planes. Campbell and Palmer formed a new band, Atlas, which disbanded in late 2008.^[5] Lynch was working as a session musician in Auckland. In 2017 Zed reunited to perform live.^[9] and in 2019 they undertook a national tour to celebrated 20 years of Silencer.

Members[edit]

• Nathan King (vocals, guitar)
• Adrian Palmer (drums)
• Andy Lynch (guitar)
• Ben Campbell (bass, vocals)

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Singles[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdeNimmervoll, Ed. 'Zed'. Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll). Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
2. ^Screen, NZ On. 'NZ On Screen'. www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
3. ^'Zed - New Zealand Musicians & Bands'. www.muzic.net.nz. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
4. ^Hunkin, Joanna. 'Don't stream it's over: Charting the rise and fall of the Kiwi hit factory'. www.nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
5. ^ ^abHunkin, Joanna (30 November 2017). 'Don't Stream It's Over: What ever happened to Zed?'. The New Zealand Herald. ISSN1170-0777. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
6. ^'What we've all been waiting for….The Zed reunion!'.
7. ^'Telecom picnic may breach noise limit'.
8. ^'40,000 crowd forecast for Hagley'. Stuff. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
9. ^'First song - Zed returns'. RNZ. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

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