"I've lived in this town for most of my life and I've been around, but I keep coming back. A place turns out to be much more than lines on a map, or beaches, or mirror glass, or uncertain weather. So how do we explain the streets of Auckland? They say that 'a picture paints a thousand words' – a song will do that too."
Mark Laurent is a professional musician, writer, and lifelong Aucklander. He and musician/partner Brenda Liddiard present a spellbinding programme of songs, poetry and stories of a boy growing up in the ‘big’ city in the 1960s and 70s.
