Briolette Kah Bic RungaMNZM (born 13 January 1976 in Christchurch, New Zealand), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first solo album, Drive (1997), debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.
Runga has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history. She has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland, and, to some extent, in the UK.
Early life
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori. They moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was four years old. Runga's older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.
In 2003, "Something Good" received the Best Solo Video award from Juice TV. The UK version of the single featured the music video for "Something Good".
"Something Good" is a song by English alternative rock quartet alt-J from their debut studio album An Awesome Wave (2012). The song was released on 28 September 2012 as the album's fourth single. The song was written by Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Gwilym Sainsbury, Thom Green and produced by Charlie Andrew.
The song was featured in the 2013 version of BBC Two's "Tent" ident. It was also featured in the 2015 video game Life Is Strange.
Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "Something Good" was first released on YouTube on 18 September 2012 at a total length of three minutes and forty-two seconds. The video was shot in Los Angeles, CA by Brewer, a directing duo by brothers Alex and Ben Brewer and has earned them the 2013 Young Director Award for Non-European Music Video.
"Something Good" is a song released by Utah Saints in 1992. It was first included as the lead song on a seven-track EP titled Something Good, then later included on the Utah Saints album. "Something Good" contains a vocal sample from Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting" (originally appearing on her 1985 album Hounds of Love). Issued as a single, the track hit number four in the UK Singles Chart as well as number seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
The BBC used the song during its coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games of 1992, and was also used for Carlton Television's pre-launch trailer.
In 2008 the track was remixed as "Something Good '08", and released with a new music video. Bush's vocal sample was re-recorded by Davina Perera — a West End singer/actress and former Pop Idol contestant — but remained the focal point of the song. The remix entered the top 10 on downloads alone, climbing to number eight after the 17 March CD release — the band's first top 20 hit in fifteen years. The video won the category for Best Dance Video at the UK Music Video Awards 2008.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
published: 06 Jan 2017
Something Good
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Something Good · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Dave Dobbyn
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
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published: 09 Feb 2017
Something Good - Bic Runga - Auckland, 2023
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
published: 28 Jul 2023
Something Good (CSO Live Version)
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Something Good (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
C...
published: 09 Feb 2017
Bic Runga - ''Something Good''. live on Top Of The Pops NZ
Something Good is a song by New Zealand recording artist Bic Runga. The song was released in New Zealand and Australia on October 2002.
In 2003, "Something Good" received the Best Solo Video award from Juice TV.
Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
New Zealand's Top Of The Pops TV show.
The Top of the Pops brand has also been exported to New Zealand which for many years had to rely on music-video only shows to demonstrate its Top 20 (as well as the occasional season of the UK version of TOTP) a...
published: 08 Jan 2017
TOTP NZ - Bic Runga - Something Good
Off air MJPEG Capture from 2004
Official Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJXfwo68C4M
published: 01 Sep 2023
Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep
Music video by Bic Runga performing Get Some Sleep. (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
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Something Good · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vo...
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Dave Dobbyn
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Dave Dobbyn
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube....
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
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Something Good (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (Ne...
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Something Good is a song by New Zealand recording artist Bic Runga. The song was released in New Zealand and Australia on October 2002.
In 2003, "Something Good...
Something Good is a song by New Zealand recording artist Bic Runga. The song was released in New Zealand and Australia on October 2002.
In 2003, "Something Good" received the Best Solo Video award from Juice TV.
Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
New Zealand's Top Of The Pops TV show.
The Top of the Pops brand has also been exported to New Zealand which for many years had to rely on music-video only shows to demonstrate its Top 20 (as well as the occasional season of the UK version of TOTP) as the world's top acts found New Zealand just too far away from the major markets to visit regularly. This all changed in 2002 when the New Zealand government suggested a voluntary New Zealand music quota on radio (basically a threat that if the stations did not impose a quota themselves then one would be imposed on them). This worked and suddenly the amount of indigenous music played on radio stations shot up, as did the number of New Zealand hits in the top 20. Therefore, a new version of a show like Top of the Pops became feasible for the first time, and the show was commissioned by Television New Zealand. The show was Executive Produced by David Rose, managing director and owner of Satellite Media and began in early 2004 with host Alex Behan. The hour-long show (as opposed to the 30-minute UK version) which is broadcast at 5 pm on Saturdays on TV2 (New Zealand) contains a mixture of songs recorded on a sound stage in the Auckland CBD, as well as performances from the international versions of the show. The New Zealand Top 20 singles and Top 10 albums are also featured. Alex stayed as host for two years before Bede Skinner took over. Despite a popular fan base in early 2006 TVNZ announced that Top of the Pops has been axed
Something Good is a song by New Zealand recording artist Bic Runga. The song was released in New Zealand and Australia on October 2002.
In 2003, "Something Good" received the Best Solo Video award from Juice TV.
Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
New Zealand's Top Of The Pops TV show.
The Top of the Pops brand has also been exported to New Zealand which for many years had to rely on music-video only shows to demonstrate its Top 20 (as well as the occasional season of the UK version of TOTP) as the world's top acts found New Zealand just too far away from the major markets to visit regularly. This all changed in 2002 when the New Zealand government suggested a voluntary New Zealand music quota on radio (basically a threat that if the stations did not impose a quota themselves then one would be imposed on them). This worked and suddenly the amount of indigenous music played on radio stations shot up, as did the number of New Zealand hits in the top 20. Therefore, a new version of a show like Top of the Pops became feasible for the first time, and the show was commissioned by Television New Zealand. The show was Executive Produced by David Rose, managing director and owner of Satellite Media and began in early 2004 with host Alex Behan. The hour-long show (as opposed to the 30-minute UK version) which is broadcast at 5 pm on Saturdays on TV2 (New Zealand) contains a mixture of songs recorded on a sound stage in the Auckland CBD, as well as performances from the international versions of the show. The New Zealand Top 20 singles and Top 10 albums are also featured. Alex stayed as host for two years before Bede Skinner took over. Despite a popular fan base in early 2006 TVNZ announced that Top of the Pops has been axed
Music video by Bic Runga performing Get Some Sleep. (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Music video by Bic Runga performing Get Some Sleep. (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Music video by Bic Runga performing Get Some Sleep. (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Dave Dobbyn
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Something Good (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Something Good is a song by New Zealand recording artist Bic Runga. The song was released in New Zealand and Australia on October 2002.
In 2003, "Something Good" received the Best Solo Video award from Juice TV.
Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
New Zealand's Top Of The Pops TV show.
The Top of the Pops brand has also been exported to New Zealand which for many years had to rely on music-video only shows to demonstrate its Top 20 (as well as the occasional season of the UK version of TOTP) as the world's top acts found New Zealand just too far away from the major markets to visit regularly. This all changed in 2002 when the New Zealand government suggested a voluntary New Zealand music quota on radio (basically a threat that if the stations did not impose a quota themselves then one would be imposed on them). This worked and suddenly the amount of indigenous music played on radio stations shot up, as did the number of New Zealand hits in the top 20. Therefore, a new version of a show like Top of the Pops became feasible for the first time, and the show was commissioned by Television New Zealand. The show was Executive Produced by David Rose, managing director and owner of Satellite Media and began in early 2004 with host Alex Behan. The hour-long show (as opposed to the 30-minute UK version) which is broadcast at 5 pm on Saturdays on TV2 (New Zealand) contains a mixture of songs recorded on a sound stage in the Auckland CBD, as well as performances from the international versions of the show. The New Zealand Top 20 singles and Top 10 albums are also featured. Alex stayed as host for two years before Bede Skinner took over. Despite a popular fan base in early 2006 TVNZ announced that Top of the Pops has been axed
Music video by Bic Runga performing Get Some Sleep. (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd.
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Briolette Kah Bic RungaMNZM (born 13 January 1976 in Christchurch, New Zealand), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first solo album, Drive (1997), debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.
Runga has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history. She has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland, and, to some extent, in the UK.
Early life
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori. They moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was four years old. Runga's older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.