Auckland-based singer-songwriter Anthonie Tonnon is heading to town in support of his debut solo album, Successor. Tonnon retired Tono and the Finance Company in 2013, a band he formed in the late 2000s in Dunedin. Recorded between and around two full band New Zealand tours, as well as solo tours of the USA and Australia, the majority of the album’s tracks are written as second-person narratives. One such song, ‘A Friend from Argentina’, is based on Donna Chisholm’s 2012 Metro piece Blow Time, an article about the death of drug mule Sorlinda Vega and how it impacted Auckland’s ‘champagne set’. Give it a read, and give the song and album a spin. The Bridge, Castlemaine – August 8.