Troy Kingi 2022
Troy Kingi
Friday 5th August, 2022
James Hay Theatre, CHRISTCHURCH
Saturday 6th August, 2022
Theatre Royal, NELSON
Wednesday 10th August, 2022
Toitoi Opera House, HASTINGS
Saturday 13th August, 2022
Glenroy Auditorium, DUNEDIN
Friday 19th August, 2022
Town Hall, AUCKLAND
Sunday 21st August, 2022
Opera House, WELLINGTON
Black Sea golden Ladder Tour
The album was a collaborative effort between Delaney Davidson and Troy. Delaney says “Troy wanted these songs to be about the human experience. What is life? What are the things people unite over? The common threads that weave a life together. I started asking him what his thoughts on these times were; fatherhood, love, work, childhood etc. I was trying to get to the essence of what he thought, we always started by talking and stripping it back to get to the core of the message.”
The initial concept of the album was to have poetry written by Troy, with all poems speaking about different facets and stages of life that the majority of humans could identify with. Each poem would be the foundation for each song in the album. Songs that would range from birth to sleep ultimately culminating in death.
Troy says "As it turned out – my poetry wasn’t quite up to scratch and not where I wanted it to be, but we still had to create. So Delaney took it on himself to be somewhat of a shrink, digging deep into my memories, deep into my subconscious to find my own experiences of these different facets which in the end led us to this album Black Sea Golden Ladder"