Midwave Breaks Drop New Single And Video ‘The Other’s Side’

Emerging Tauranga Alt-Rock duo Midwave Breaks have made a serious impact at Rock radio, with two independent singles in the Top 10, and a third breaching the Top 20.

LISTEN TO THE OTHER’S SIDE HERE | WATCH THE OTHER’S SIDE HERE

Their explosive debut single Lemonade Hand Grenade resonated across the country in 2021, peaking at number 3 on the Radioscope Rock Chart, and came in at number 510 on the Listener-voted Rock 2000.

Former Supergroove drummer and West End ‘Stomp’ performer Paul Russell, and his brother in arms from Eight, singer-songwriter and guitarist Bruce Conlon, continue to showcase a ‘purposefully-retrospective’ sound with their latest single The Other’s Side.

Driven by the energy of the creative process, and with an innate ability to crafts songs that capture a moment, the Midwave Breaks sound is a modern take on the soundtrack of their youth. Creating music epitomised by 80’s-90’s alternative rock/pop – evoking hints of Springsteen and Petty, Cornell and Vedder, the duo fuse together a melting pot of musical influences from past to present.

Featuring the horn section from The Black Seeds, local legend Chip Matthews on bass, and mixed in the US by Grammy-award winning engineer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons), The Other’s Side is the perfect upbeat soundtrack for the tail-end of summer.

The video was produced with support from NZ On Air, in conjunction with The Tauranga Fringe Festival, shot on location at the iconic Historic Village and featuring members of Steampunk Tauranga in all their character-filled glory.

A song about relationships, The Other’s Side is about acknowledging and respecting other people’s perspectives and differences, a theme that naturally resonated with the ethos of the Fringe Festival which celebrates ‘inclusivity, otherness and artistic adventure’.

The festival itself was largely a ‘run and gun’ shoot, capturing the natural pageantry, colour, and interaction of the festival and performers as it unfolded. The story follows the journey of two characters throughout their day, and whose alter-egos connect within a like-minded community of ‘Others’ on The Fringe, before returning to the ‘normality’ of everyday life.

Like many other creatives the world over, Midwave Breaks had to cancel several showcase gigs in 2021, but the band are determined to make the live connection with their audience soon.

Meanwhile, in the interim while live performances are still an uncertainty, fans can expect more new music throughout 2022 from this powerhouse song-writing duo.