Taringa whakarongo!
Dec 22, 2021
4 minutes
Music Columnist
VICTORIA SPENCE
here’s a strange thing that happens at your first concert – you feel the music in your body. Wide-eyed, you turn to your neighbour/new best friend in the audience, hand on chest – “FEEL THIS!”. The physical experience of the sound comes as a surprise when you’ve really come for fellowship and validation, to animate your private relationship with that artist and to steep yourself in the emotions of a loving audience. The maturing music fan comes to share the same oxygen as that stranger you used to love with a chemical intensity, to see them with your naked eyeballs and to hear the timbre of
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