17 Dec 2025

Essential Albums: Shona Laing - South

From Essential New Zealand Albums, 12:04 pm on 17 December 2025

Shona Laing was just seventeen when she had her first national hit in 1972. Fifteen years later, she was reintroducing herself as a different kind of artist. In this episode, Nick Bollinger looks at Shona's journey from folkie singer-songwriter to synth-pop pioneer, with a focus on her definitive 1987 album South.