Play It Strange Trust

Supporting and encouraging young New Zealand songwriters to write, record and perform their own songs.

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Last day for entries into the Youthtown Songwriting Competition is Thursday 11th of May! 🤩 NZ students in years 9-11, send us your song for a chance to have it professionally recorded & released on Spotify & Apple Music! #foryoupage #viral #nz #nzmusic #music #getyoursongon

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Christchurch school head prefect wins prestigious songwriting competition - NZ Herald https://t.co/rqtL5TABOI

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Grace Lawrence from St Andrew’s College, Christchurch in 1st Place. More results Monday https://t.co/Eh8juTzJW7

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Create an original artwork for the cover of the annual Play It Strange 2022 Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition album .. https://t.co/rmoftiTVWg

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Lyric Grab. “Ruby red: Violet Flowers. With a sprinkle of sunshine”. Ella Barwick’s ‘Flowers of Summer’. A play It Strange track https://t.co/XmrHswJgZ7

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Lyric Grab. “ So it has been a long time coming. Waiting all these years for the light … to shine through the dark.” Campbell McKenzie. A Play It Strange track. https://t.co/fwAVvD05s5

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Kāpiti College student Mya Jeram impresses at Youthtown Songwriting Competition Aotearoa https://t.co/qDFqi0UXe7

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Lyric grab. Sammy Kewish’ great song. ‘I’m still your little girl, just a few inches taller’. https://t.co/3BjwclYCs9

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Play It Strange recording sessions all systems go!!

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Lyric grab “ I make the same breakfast in the morning. And I know what’s going to happen today”. By Ash Graham. Play It Strange!!

https://t.co/G2OMeVlLAE

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Lyric grab from The Essence. Song is “We Gotta Move”. Powerhouse South Auckland band. From Papatoetoe High School. Play It Strange!! https://t.co/rG9P5AXr1v

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Lyric grab!! ‘Birds like golden teardrops’. By Roseanne Gamlen Greene. Another Lion Foundation track. https://t.co/dkVsSTXBvO

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Lyric grab! ‘Turn your Face towards the sun, the shadows retreat’. From “You’re Not Alone”. Grace Brebner and Caitlin Oliver-Roche. Have a listen! From Mike Chunn https://t.co/VJRWWhA8kq

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Piper Grant recording her song “U Give Me Chills”. A Youthtown Sing Competition finalist!! At Depot Studios, Devonport , Ak.

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Rebekah Walton - her fabulous Play It Strange track ‘Sing Me To Sleep’. Here’s a lyric grab: “Don’t ask any more what has gone. Just sing me to sleep and tell me you’re the one). Recorded at Roundhead Studios. https://t.co/dof5o1srXH

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Grace Lawrence. (Play It Strange - Lyric grab). “When I try to fall asleep, you’re the story I stay up with and read. When I finally drift off - you’re forgotten”

https://t.co/iFjnigJn9W

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Elizabeth Stokes. Lyric grab from “Wave At Me From Across The Sea”. “Place your hand in mine. It need not hold so tight”
Have a listen https://t.co/7TwXJx42VH

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Bailey Lindsey. Lyric grab. “ feeling the cold on my city boy hands: waiting for the feeling to come back again”

https://t.co/yua33dmNW7

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Sophie Frame. Lyric grab. https://t.co/rvtwDWCgJo. “ do you see it? what he started. He’s making a pathway through the wilderness.

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https://t.co/z9NF0k6Jqi. Cailyn Eccles song ‘String Around My Ears’. Lion Foundation 2021

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Lyric grab from Cailyn Eccles 2021 Lion Foundation track - ‘String Around My Ears’. “I don’t want to talk to your dumb arse. I don’t want to have to fill the space you lack”. https:/playitstrange.bandcamp.com/track/string-around-my-ears-cailyn-eccles