It’s been an action-packed day of announcements for The Phoenix Foundation, who’ll be embarking on their first nationwide tour of Aotearoa in five years this November, celebrating the launch of their seventh studio album Friend Ship. Spearheaded by the Taite-nominated songwriting talents of Samuel Flynn Scott and Lukasz Buda alongside Conrad Wedde, Tom Callwood, Will Ricketts and percussionist extraordinaire Chris O’Connor, the Pōneke sonic adventurers’ long-awaited record “stands for the power of friends and communities to carry us through life, for better or worse.” Featuring contributions from Nadia Reid, Hollie Fullbrook (Tiny Ruins) and Anita Clark (Motte), Friend Ship promises nothing less than “the…