Zowie

Zoe Bridey Fleury (born ) and later went to school to study drumming, joining various punk rock bands and experimenting with screamo music and lyrics. She was a student of Northcote College. "Broken Machine" spent a total of 12 weeks on the chart. Following the success of the single, blogger Perez Hilton named Zowie "one of the Top 5 Artist to watch for in 2011".

Zowie's second single, "Bite Back", was her first single to be released outside of New Zealand, receiving a digital release in both Australia and the United States in April 2011. It failed to chart in the United States, but spent over 20 weeks on the Australian Dance Chart peaking at number 2.

In March 2011, Zowie toured with Mark Ronson and The Business. In May, she joined Katy Perry on the Australasian leg of her California Dreams Tour, performing 11 shows across Australia and New Zealand.

In anticipation of her debut album, Zowie released her first promotional single, "Smash It", on 16 September 2011. It was featured on the ABC show Pretty Little Liars later that year. Zowie's third official single, "My Calculator", was released on 11 May 2012 in the United Kingdom. She worked on the song with songwriter Henrik Jonback.

Love Demolition was officially released on 11 May 2012 in New Zealand, where it debuted and peaked at number 31 on the Official Top 40 Albums charts for 1 week. It also spent 7 weeks on the Official Top 20 Aotearoa Albums charts, peaking at 7.

Musical style and image Zowie sometimes designs her own outfits and has been known to perform with different stage personas. Zowie describes these as "characters" and "alter egos", and stated in a 2010 interview that she was "not the girl on stage". She has described her Zowie stage persona as being "from the year 3000", She has cited artists such as Nine Inch Nails and Gary Numan as inspirations, as well as the stylistic elements of new wave, synth-pop and rock. On her musical style, Zowie has said she enjoys "industrial" and "super dark" pop elements and wanted Love Demolition to be "dark and pretty."

Discography Studio albums Title Album details Peak chart positions NZ Love Demolition Released: 11 May 2012 Label: Sony Format: LP, CD, digital download 31

Singles Official singles + List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications(sales threshold) Album AU Dance NZ "Broken Machine"2010 — 9 NZ: Gold Love Demolition "Bite Back" 2011 2 — "My Calculator"2012 — —"Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)" Flight of the Conchords charity single — 1 NZ: platinum "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.