OneRepublic

The “songs you know tour”, as lead singer Ryan Tedder dubs it, will end “on a high note” at Wellington's TSB Arena on Saturday. But if Tedder's love of Aotearoa ...

Earlier, Love Runs Out transformed the arena into a party, with almost every attendee clapping their hands in the air. That same orchestral sound would almost make me forget I was at a pop rock concert later on during Apologise. * The crowd is brought back down to earth with If I Lose Myself, before the band unites in the middle of the stage and takes a bow. “I was backstage updating my blog on the All Blacks,” he says, adding that he’s a “super fan”. The band would go above and beyond this promise by dedicating 15 minutes to performing hits by other artists, written by Tedder during his “day job” – or when he was “cheating on” his OneRepublic bandmates.