There’s A Tuesday seem to have an uncanny knack for generating attention, without necessarily intending to. 2025 has been a year in which the band released their debut full album, and appeared on stages in all manner of places, including South Korea. Guitarist Nat Hutton and drummer Gus Murray looked back over the year with NZM.

When the Ōtautahi dream-pop band initially made waves in public they were named There’s A Tuesday Between A Monday And Between A Wednesday – a poster-filling hazard that, while short-lived, certainly caught the attention of anyone who tripped over it.

Once abbreviated to There’s A Tuesday they had a head start, and a better work story to tell. Fans and media loved the fresh faced foursome, also unusually fronted by two female guitarist/singers, Nat Hutton and Minnie Robberds.

The band morphed from being fans of and support act to Benee, to becoming the second act signed to the Kiwi pop star’s own Olive Records label in August 2021, their ‘Boy Scout’ EP following nine months later.

Single Girl At Night was selected among the top five finalists for 2022’s APRA Silver Scroll Award, a massive vote of peer approval for their songwriting – pitting the young band against legends Troy Kingi, Marlon Williams, Tami Neilson, Delaney Davidson, and the winning 35, performed by Ka Hao and Rob Ruha.

Two rather quiet years followed, but in 2025 There’s A Tuesday again impressively returned to the APRA Silver Scroll finalist table with Margo, an indie-rock exploration of being young and queer. Their debut album ‘Blush’ was released independently in April, described by the band as, “…this record feels like the soundtrack to everything we’ve experienced – both as a band and as individuals.”

Just a few months later There’s A Tuesday were selected for the first ever Seoul Residency, arranged by the Asia NZ Foundation, which allowed them to spend 10 days in August working and performing in South Korea’s capital. They followed that experience up in early September with several gigs at Brisbane’s Big Sound music industry showcase, and a couple more in Sydney and Melbourne. 

So Nat, what was the 2025 year’s highlight?

“I’m trying to think back… The craziest thing we’ve done this year is go play in Korea, that’s been like a big, amazing opportunity and tick-off the bucket list, for us to play outside Australia and NZ. 

“The whole trip was a massive highlight, but playing the show in Seoul alongside two local indie bands was cool. We also attended the Pentaport Rock Festival as a band, and watched one of our favourite artists, Little Simz, perform. Korea as a whole was amazing. And then probably, would you say Big Sound and our Australia tour Gus?”

“I reckon the combo of those things, the Australia tour and the Big Sound shows, like doing a proper run of gigs in a row,” drummer Gus Murray responds. 

“I think we did eight shows over like 10 days, and it was our first time really testing how long we could last with real touring kind of stuff. So I felt equally proud of what we were kind of doing at that point. Nat was an absolute soldier, she was sick for so much of that, but just fought through it, and put on some pretty amazing performances. So that was a big highlight for me!”

“Another highlight was releasing our debut album ‘Blush’. That was amazing,” adds Nat. ”And then following that, we did a NZ tour, which was really epic, and we had lots of our good friends play alongside us, Daffodils, my partner Jenny Rockwell, First Reserve, and with Goodwill in Christchurch – which was a really special full circle moment since we’d done the album with him.”

And how was being second-time finalists for the Silver Scroll Awards, this year staged in the band’s home city?

“Yeah. It was just crazy. Every time we talk about it I just like, feel like I’m lying or something!” laughs Nat. “I mean, the company we were in was insane. I remember Joel saying something to me about how he was feeling like we’re the little brother, or little sister the other finalists had been asked to bring along with them! 

“I don’t know why Margo was selected, but we are so, so stoked, and feel really proud. There’s lots of reasons why we love that song, and yeah, it’s really cool that it’s off our debut album. That was such an honour, and to hear the amazing cover of our song by Paul Ubana Jones was really cool. And the guitarist was Goodwill (Will McGillivray) – who produced the album – so that was extra special as well, having him up there too.”

Both admit There’s A Tuesday haven’t been as active in the Christchurch scene as they’d have liked over recent years, Nat living in Auckland since university days being one major part of the challenges. They have nothing but good things to say about their time with Benee’s Olive Records, but by the start of 2024 the band had left the label and returned to being an indie act. Gus explains it in relationship terms.

“I would say it was just a mutual growing apart kind of thing… We had signed on to Olive with the impression that we were going to get this fairly unique sort of level of creative control in our work, but equalled out with the resources of being a subsidiary of one of the big labels [Universal]. 

“And I think we were just moulding our sound at that point. I think we really figured out our sound over the whole recording of ‘Blush’, and before that it was a bit difficult to navigate what the label sort of wanted the sound to be, or what they thought it could be, and where we were going. So there were some creative differences, and Stella was quite busy with, you know, being like a massive pop star and stuff. We sort of realised over time that we needed more space to be able to achieve what we wanted to creatively.”

According to Nat There’s A Tuesday are all fans of long form recording, so expect an EP or album, rather than a rush of singles in 2026. The band obviously enjoyed the process of recording ‘Blush’, and are likely to repeat it once a new batch of songs has been worked up in their rehearsal space, and over long distance chats.

2025 has been an epic and active year for the band, and the band are all keen to manufacturer a reason to get back to South Korea – not just for the food.