Tiny Ruins are a musical ensemble from

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, New Zealand.

History

Tiny Ruins began as an alias for singer-songwriter

Hollie Fullbrook Hollie Fullbrook is an Auckland-based singer and multi instrumentalist who is the face of Tiny Ruins. She collaborated with Hamish Kilgour on the '' Hurtling Through'' EP. Background Fullbrook was born in 1985 and is originally from Bristol, En ...

, who recorded as a solo artist prior to 2009.Tiny Ruins
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Fullbrook recorded an EP with singer-songwriter Lieven Scheerlink in 2010 under the name Tiny Ruins and toured Europe for the first time with him and Ana Franco from Coffee & Wine. In 2011, she recorded the full-length ''Some Were Meant for Sea''. She then opened for

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and toured internationally with Calexico and

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. After adding Cass Basil and Alexander Freer to the lineup, Tiny Ruins recorded a second album, ''Brightly Painted One'', which was released in 2014. Guitarist Tom Healy and violinist Siobhanne Thompson performed on the album and appeared with the group on subsequent tours. ''Brightly Painted One'' was awarded Best Alternative Album at the

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in November 2014. In 2016, Fullbrook teamed up with

Hamish Kilgour Hamish Kilgour (17 March 1957 – November or December 2022) was a New Zealand musician who co-founded the indie rock band The Clean with his brother David in 1978. Kilgour also co-founded the band Bailter Space in 1987 and later recorded as a ...

and former Terrorways, Gary Havoc & The HurricanesRadio New Zealan
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for the '' Hurtling Through'' release.

Discography

References

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