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Genre-hopping, horn-heavy trio Love Square return to the Leigh Sawmill Cafe on Sunday, November 9 to support their new album The Lighthouse, from 4pm.
Made up of multi-instrumentalists Nick Atkinson, Finn Scholes and drummer Alistair Deverick, the band is known for blending adventurous jazz with stories drawn from their real-life escapades.
“Sure, there are the amazing gigs parping alongside Nadia Reid, Tami Neilson, Dave Dobbyn or the Come Together Band, but really this friendship is based on a thirst for adventure,” Atkinson says.
That spirit carried the group deep into the Southern Alps last December.
“We spent a week among the icy mountains that rear up above the Dart River. In old corrugated huts we hatched a plan for a new Love Square album called The Lighthouse,” he says.
“The fruits of these discussions can be tasted at Leigh Sawmill.”
The trio’s stage set-up is famously packed with “keyboards ancient and new, saxophones and clarinets by the half-dozen, trumpets, trombones, tambourines and enough maracas to get half the audience involved”.
Atkinson adds, “The Leigh Sawmill Cafe kitchen will be humming and renowned studio engineer Malcolm Welsford will be tuning the PA to a high degree of fidelity. We’re bursting to play to the exceptionally loyal and well-informed Leigh crowd.”
Doors open at 4pm, with the first set at 4.30pm. Children 12 and under are free with a ticket-holding guardian. Tickets are available now from undertheradar.co.nz and booking a table is advised. On November 9 the band will also reveal the line-up for the 2026 Leigh Sawmill Jazz Festival.
