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The profile · researched 16 September 2026
Home Brew are touring a seven-track EP from 2008 — and selling out town halls with it
The West Auckland trio of Tom Scott, Lui Silk and Haz Beats made the first New Zealand hip-hop album to top the chart in nine years, disappeared for most of a decade, and have spent 2026 playing their earliest record front to back to sold-out rooms. An eleven-show Australia and New Zealand run follows in October and November.
Avondale, a jazz bassist's record collection, and a week of songs
Tom Scott was born in the United Kingdom in 1984 and moved to New Zealand at the age of three, growing up in Avondale in West Auckland. His father, the jazz bassist Peter Scott, kept 1970s jazz, soul and funk in the house, and Scott was rapping by the time he was ten. Home Brew formed around him in 2006, after university, with the rapper Lui Gumaka — who performs as Lui Silk — and the producer Harry Huavi, known as Haz Beats. The division of labour has not changed since: Haz Beats builds the tracks, Scott and Silk trade verses over them, and the writing sticks close to what actually happened, in their own suburbs, in the past week.
Through the late 2000s the group put out EPs rather than albums. The one that lasted is Last Week, released in 2008 — a short, deliberately unfinished-sounding record that is still the first thing a Home Brew crowd asks for. Eighteen years on, it is the record the band has built an entire touring cycle around, performed start to finish.
The double album that went straight in at number one
The self-titled debut arrived on 1 May 2012 on the group's own label, Young, Gifted & Broke. It was a double album split into Light and Dark discs, twenty-one songs cut down from thirty-three recorded, running just under ninety minutes, produced throughout by Haz Beats with guest appearances from Hollie Smith, Tourettes, Esther Stephens, Lui Tuiasau, Lucky Lance, Matthew Crawley and Tyna Keelan.
It entered the New Zealand albums chart at number one and stayed on the chart for fifteen weeks — the first New Zealand hip-hop album to reach the top since Scribe's The Crusader in 2003. It got there on digital pre-orders rather than airplay; the lyrics kept most of the record off radio and television. Luke Appleby gave it five stars in The Dominion Post and Lydia Jenkin four and a half in The New Zealand Herald. At the 2012 New Zealand Music Awards it won Best Urban/Hip Hop Album, with further nominations for Album of the Year, Best Group and Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The launch was a 48-hour party, the Home Brew Speakeasy, held from 5 to 7 May 2012, and a six-city tour followed in July 2013.
The long dispersal: @peace and Avantdale Bowling Club
What came next was less a break-up than a scattering. Scott ran @peace from 2012 to 2015, a project that collected three consecutive Taite Music Prize nominations and a fair amount of argument about its politics. In 2017 he started Avantdale Bowling Club, the jazz-backed vehicle for his most praised writing; its debut won the 2019 Taite Music Prize and Album of the Year. Home Brew itself sat idle from the mid-2010s, and the band was on hold by 2014.
That stretch changed how Scott is read. NPR has called him one of the biggest role players in New Zealand hip-hop; The Spinoff has described him as the country's finest storyteller and its most brazen agitator. The early Home Brew material was satirical and deliberately crude; the work either side of the hiatus moved towards longer, plainer, more autobiographical writing about work, money and family, and the reunited band carries both registers on the same stage.
Run It Back, and a reunion that stuck
The group came back in 2023 with a reissue of the debut on its eleventh anniversary, followed by Run It Back on 8 December 2023 — a second album twelve years after the first. Both the new record and the reissue topped the local album chart, and Run It Back was nominated for the 2024 Taite Music Prize. Rolling Stone Australia later placed it 33rd in its ranking of the 80 best New Zealand albums of the 2020s so far, describing the reunion as definitively worth the wait.
The live return followed quickly. Home Brew played Laneway in Tāmaki Makaurau on Waitangi Day 2024, and on 9 February 2024 announced an autumn headline run: Totara St in Tauranga on 11 April, Union Hall in Dunedin on 12 April, the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch on 13 April, which sold out, and The Factory in Hamilton on 20 April.
Where they stand in September 2026
Scott released his first album under his own name, ANITYA, in 2025; it peaked at number four in New Zealand. The band's own 2026 has been organised around Last Week. On 31 May 2026 they played a sold-out Auckland Town Hall as part of the venue's Winter Concert Series, performing the EP in full with a full band behind them.
That show produced the tour. On 27 July 2026 the group announced Home Brew Presents Last Week, with tickets on general sale from 30 July. The Australian leg — their first headline shows there in more than a decade — runs 170 Russell in Melbourne on 8 October, The Triffid in Brisbane on 9 October, Liberty Hall in Sydney on 10 October and Metropolis in Fremantle on 11 October. New Zealand follows at the Sir Howard Morrison Centre in Rotorua on 16 October, the BNZ Theatre in Hamilton on 31 October, Shed 6 in Wellington on 5 November and Christchurch Town Hall on 13 November, ending with three consecutive nights at the Hollywood Avondale in Auckland from 20 to 22 November — a 500-metre walk from where Scott grew up. The Auckland shows start at 7pm and are ticketed at around $82.
The Town Hall, rebuilt as a flat
The May show set the template the touring production follows. The stage was dressed as the band's old rehearsal room: a fridge stocked with beer, the words Home Brew spelled out in magnetic letters across its door, egg cartons strung up in front of the Town Hall's pipe organ, a couch, carpet, a box television and neon bar lighting. The group played for close to two hours — Last Week in sequence, then Plastic Magic, Alcoholic, Datura and Bad Bad Whiskey from the wider catalogue, with Tom Broome on drums.
Between songs Scott moved between jokes and straight monologues about authenticity and politics, and closed by telling the room to enrol to vote. Reviewers described a crowd that danced and rapped along to every word through a haze of smoke, which is not how the Town Hall usually behaves. No support acts have been announced for the October and November dates.
The show, now
The current show is the 2008 EP Last Week performed in sequence from start to finish, then a run through the wider catalogue — Plastic Magic, Alcoholic, Datura and Bad Bad Whiskey all appeared at the sold-out Auckland Town Hall date on 31 May 2026, which ran close to two hours. Tom Scott fronts, Lui Silk shares the verses and Haz Beats handles the production, expanded to a full band with Tom Broome on drums; reviewers singled out the drumming and Scott's command of the room. The set is dressed as the group's old rehearsal space: a beer-filled fridge with the band's name in magnetic letters, egg cartons hung in front of the Town Hall organ, a couch, carpet, a box TV and neon bar lighting. Scott breaks the songs up with jokes and with blunt monologues about authenticity and politics, and ended the May show by telling the audience to enrol to vote. 95bFM's Marlo Schorr-Kon called it an unbelievably great show; The Spinoff's reviewer wrote that the crowd danced, rapped along and smoked throughout, and compared the feeling to watching Biggie Smalls at Madison Square Garden. The October–November run takes the same production to Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Fremantle, Rotorua, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and three nights at the Hollywood Avondale in Auckland; no support acts have been announced.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · au.rollingstone.com · au.rollingstone.com · thespinoff.co.nz · 95bfm.com · undertheradar.co.nz