Anthonie Tonnon

Anthonie Tonnon’s musical story sounds familiar enough at first: he formed a band while he was at university in Dunedin and kept at it. But it’s also a story of innovation and reinvention in a changing music industry, and of memorable songs about things most people don’t write songs about. Tonnon can’t quite claim to have been born in Dunedin – he moved there from Tauranga in 1986 with his family, when he was three months old. Most of his childhood was spent in the city’s outskirts at Fairfield and Chain Hills