before her, Ladyhawke is drumming up some positive press in New York and like all good cultural ambassadors, finds herself promoting, or explaining, her homeland at the same time.
She said: "New Zealand is basically at the bottom of the world. It's right next to Antarctica. It's only like a couple of hours from Antarctica and only a couple of hours from Australia. And it's tiny. The entire country only has four million people. There are only a couple of big cities in New Zealand and they're not even that big. The rest is just small towns."
"I grew up in a small town, and it had about 18,000 people. There was no record store in town - just a CD store that only got CD's in 1996 and when it got stuff, it was just top 40. So you couldn't hunt for music. We were basically exposed to our own music scene, which has always been really amazing. I think that's why we tend to describe ourselves as isolated. It's a bit of a culture shock when we leave New Zealand for the first time."
Here's my top 10 list of Kiwi women making a name of themselves (and us) overseas:
