Lawrence Arabia

Lawrence Arabia — the pseudonym of Wayne Milne — is a connoisseur of vintage songwriting, creating timeless music inspired while very much by 1970’s Western Coast Americana while the indie pop of New Zealand’s Soaring Nun Records. Given birth to in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981, Milne relocated to Auckland in 2002, where he 1st became a member of indie pop clothing the Brunettes. In 2004 fellow Brunettes member Ryan McPhun created the Ruby Suns and recruited Milne within his ever-evolving lineup. Dealing with bass responsibilities in both rings and completing trips of the U.S. using the Brunettes, Milne came back to New Zealand and collected together local music artists Jolyon Mulholland, Benjamin Luke Eldridge, and aged friend Ryan McPhun to produce what would end up being the Decrease Agents. At exactly the same time, Milne’s alter ego Lawrence Arabia was created. Splitting his time taken between the Decrease Brokers and his single project, 2006 noticed Milne launch his self-titled debut recording as Lawrence Arabia. A assortment of low-key, quirky indie pop tunes, the album gained compliment in his indigenous New Zealand, but was overlooked by a lot of the music press in the North Hemisphere. Moving towards the U.K. and establishing house in London’s trendy Shoreditch, Milne started composing his second record, funding his move with touring stints with Okkervil River and Feist and a work offering homesick expat New Zealanders items from their indigenous nation. Milne’s second record, Chant Darling, was documented at various places including Sweden and London, and was finally all brought jointly on home garden soil and released in ’09 2009. Milne and co-writer Luke Buda earned the renowned APRA Sterling silver Scroll Prize for the tune “Apple Pie Bed” in the Sept from the same season. As Milne toured throughout 2010, he was composing tracks for his third record. He also discovered time to be always a component of Barb, a trio offering Liam Finn and Connan Mockasin which released a self-titled record that season. In Oct, he strike the studio room with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin in Surrey, and started putting the tracks on tape. After some overdubs back in New Zealand during 2011, The Sparrow was completed. Before it released he teamed up with Mike Fabulous to record an record (Unlimited Buffett) afterwards that season beneath the name Fabulous/Arabia. The Sparrow premiered by Bella Union world-wide in July of 2012. The record won critical compliment and a good 2013 Tui Award in New Zealand for Greatest Male Solo Recording. His following record, 2016’s Complete Truth, was manufactured in cooperation with Mike Fantastic at a little studio beyond Decrease Hutt and released from the fabled Soaring Nun label..