The dude we don’t know

In the first week of November 2003, Scribe simultaneously held the No 1 spot in the national album and singles charts – a feat no New Zealand artist had achieved before. His debut album, The Crusader, would go on to sell four times platinum and its double A-side single, Not Many/Stand Up, remains the iconic record of a commercially bountiful era for local music. Later that month, he played his first big show in Auckland, at the St James Theatre, where he was confident, charismatic and seemingly capable of anything.

There followed a long and