Bic Runga Releases New Single ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’
Bic Runga Releases New Single ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’
January 23rd, 2026
Ahead of the release of RED SUNSET, her first studio project in fifteen years, Aotearoa music icon Bic Runga today shares a new single from it in the ethereal ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’. Following on from the release of the album’s title track late last year, ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’ offers further perspective on the dreamy indie landscapes Bic takes brilliant strides through on this record.
Created between Paris and Auckland, the track serves as another gorgeous example of Bic’s creative partnership with Kody Nielson, while the legendary Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound handled mastering of the final product – a track that burns with power and intimacy in equal measure.
Of ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’, Bic explains, “‘Ghost in Your Bed’ was another song that I’d had unfinished for more than ten years. It’s a spooky song of feeling very troubled, especially on a sleepless night, when you feel haunted by something, “lying there like the ghost in your bed” and realising the thing haunting you is of your own making.”
The release of ‘GHOST IN YOUR BED’ is the perfect final piece of the puzzle to set up for the release of RED SUNSET on Friday 13 February. Fans won’t be waiting long to see Bic return to stages across Aotearoa, with her album tour set to kick off in March in Hawke’s Bay, continuing through Aotearoa into April for some unmissable live performances.
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Bic Runga is one of New Zealand’s most treasured musicians — a songwriter and performer whose voice is woven into the soundtrack of Kiwi life. Known for her crystalline vocals and timeless melodies, she has spent more than two decades creating songs that feel both intimate and universal.
Born in Christchurch to a Chinese-Malaysian mother and a Māori father, Bic grew up in a home filled with music, teaching herself drums, guitar, and piano. This curiosity and independence shaped her into an artist who not only writes and sings her own songs but often produces and arranges them too.
Her 1997 debut album Drive changed the face of New Zealand pop. Songs like ‘Sway’ and ‘Drive’ captured complex emotions with simplicity and grace. The album went multi-platinum at home, and ‘Sway’ found its way onto Hollywood film soundtracks, carrying her songs far beyond Aotearoa.
If Drive announced her talent, Beautiful Collision in 2002 confirmed it. With hits like ‘Get Some Sleep’ and ‘Listening for the Weather’, the album became one of New Zealand’s biggest-selling records. Its warmth and clarity reflected her unique artistry: sophisticated yet unpretentious, polished yet emotionally direct.
Later albums, including Birds, Belle, and Close Your Eyes, showed her willingness to experiment and reinterpret her influences while holding onto the purity that first drew listeners in.
A multi-Tūī and Silver Scroll award-winning artist, and the youngest inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, Bic’s influence can be heard in a new generation of New Zealand musicians who grew up with her songs on the radio and saw in her a model of artistic independence.
In 2026, she returns with Red Sunset, recorded in Paris in the winter of 2025. Bic’s gift has always been her ability to turn personal truths into shared experiences, inviting listeners into her gentle, thoughtful, and beautifully human world.
The Red Sunset Tour will see Bic performing across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia next autumn and is funded through NZ On Air and supported by the NZ Music Commission.