Singer Mandy Meadows returns to Hawke s Bay after life in UK
22 Feb, 2021 09:35 PM
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Mandy Meadows, singer from Central Hawke s Bay back in New Zealand after years in London
Mandy Meadows, singer from Central Hawke s Bay back in New Zealand after years in London But singer-songwriter Mandy Meadows did just that – and hasn t looked back since.
Meadows returned to Waipukurau from a Covid ravaged London in October, after a string of bad luck which included catching the virus herself.
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The 35-year-old spent five years in the English capital performing at luxury venues including The Savoy, Dorchester and Harrods, before lockdown caused bookings to dry up and left Meadows pondering what life was like back home.
So we re now over a week into 2021. Hmmm.
There was a vague sense that once we farewelled that savage Year Of Our Lord 2020 things would change. Unsurprisingly, that hasn t happened.
It s been a torrid time. The first things to hit were thunder storms and torrential rain, followed by gales, flooding and broken bridges. In Dunedin 200 people were trapped overnight at a festival and forced to listen to nothing but folk music.
Meanwhile, Kiwis all round the country declared yet again how lucky we are as the rest of the world dives deeper into Covid-contagion, Britain plunging into a full lockdown, America sinking further into the virus-infected swamp.