DJ CALLMEAK opened the evening before ASHA, Auds. and Tusekah each brought something completely different to the room. Softness, honesty, longing, warmth and joy.
What made the night special was closeness. Artists stood only metres away from the audience. Conversations drifted between songs. The whole room felt connected.
By 9:30pm, the music had stopped, the cables were packed down, and everyone slowly drifted back into the Auckland night.
A very small room.
But somehow it felt much bigger than that.