Gin seems to be ready to harness that bitterness though. What’s rare is any of them speaking out to admit that things didn’t go as promised. Katie: Poor Gin! It seems like she’s had a rough time, though I can’t say I’m surprised - the New Zealand pop machine has a bit of a habit of eating young women up and then spitting them out (Zowie, Ruby Frost, Kimbra et al.). It's a topic that's apparently inspired her new song 'Hallow Fate', the latest release from her much-delayed new album. Fast forward seven years and Wigmore is disillusioned with the fickle industry she once embraced. Williams and Dane Rumble.īut things change. Wigmore would push everyone to take local pop music seriously at a time when we were stuck with artists like J. Remember that weird James Bond ad? That was her, too. Her debut album, Holy Smoke - recorded with Ryan Adams' backing band The Cardinals - went triple platinum and she would also go on to win what felt like endless music awards behind its momentum. 1 on the New Zealand chart when she appeared on the hook to Smashproof's unforgettable hit 'Brother'. She helped to break a 23-year-old record for the longest consecutive run at no. At the turn of the decade, Gin Wigmore was the biggest artist in the country. Hussein: People seem to forget that there was once another singer from Devonport that took New Zealand by storm. Gin Wigmore is back and she’s also fed up with an industry that, once fawning, has grown frigid.
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