One of New Zealand’s most popular bands, Kora, return to stages this summer, with a performance at Homegrown among others. We spoke to bassist, Francis Kora, about the new line-up, the songwriting process, and what fans can expect from their live show. Originally made up of four brothers, 2013 saw Laughton and Brad Kora move on to personal projects, yet their replacements have a sense of family anyway, having been close to the band from the start. “The current line-up is made up of me, my youngest brother Stu, and Dan, who has been with us from the start, and then we’ve got two of the Heavy Metal Ninja Boys, Richie Allen, who used to be our sound-man, and Joe Brown was our drum tech and now he’s the drummer,” Francis explains. After several years in a variety of different groups, Kora originally came to wider attention due to an appearance on Space TV, the now defunct music show that was then running a music video competition. “People voted for who should get to make a video for their song, and ‘Politician’ was the result of that, and that was our first video, and things really started to fly after that,” Francis [...]
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