Hannah Everingham

Big Surprise, Hannah Everingham’s third album, holds a magic in its name. How could a surprise be big or small? Seemingly defining and defying its own contradictions, here is an artist who sings of crabs, earthquakes, shopping in New York, Judi Dench and a lover who gifts flowers by lifting them, roots and all,from the earth. Featuring the free spirited pop-bops ‘Judi Dench’ & ‘Want You’ , Big Surprise is out August 7th 2026 and in September 2026 Everingham tours New Zealand in celebration of the album.

Garnering attention since the release of her debut album Between Bodies in 2022, Hannah Everingham is an artist beamed out of a timeless sonic realm. She has performed across New Zealand, in Australia & New York, and was described by Rolling Stone AUS as an artist of “special songwriter status”, with her 2024 album landing multiple end of year bests lists - including Rolling Stone’s Top 80 Records of the decade. This tour includes her first NZ shows since the release of her acclaimed 2024 album Siempre Tiene Flores.

Big Surprise, recorded in full takes between the former home of New Zealand children’s writer Margaret Mahy in Governor’s Bay & in Lyttelton conjures a similar playfulness that Mahy’s work captures - a leaning towards the supernatural mystery. Love as, and is, the real force that leaps outside the body, just as this music pours out of the record. Hopefulness in the island of the music, the lightness of living within a deep blue darkness. This is, like an island, a world approaching its own boundary. The big surprise is life, the road that unwinds only as you move. Yet these shifting melodies give Big Surprise a fluidity, much like seaweed that binds itself to the volcanic peninsula from where the album was made. Both bound and freely floating, both made of the bright sky and the blue sea, it is true, just as Everingham sings, that -
in the morning
I will wake up
free