Home Brew


Auckland hip-hop act Home Brew successfully, in equal parts, both transfixed and shocked parts of New Zealand. Their debut album was perhaps the most anticipated and positively received local release of 2012.

The trio of Home Brew were led by Tom Scott, with Lui Gumaka and beatmaker Haz Beats (Haz Huavi), and were joined onstage by a full live band. They established themselves off the back of a series of digital EPs they gave away for free on Bandcamp, along with some very entertaining home-made video clips posted on the internet, promoting their music and generally getting up to mischief while avoiding getting arrested.

Sundae Sessions: Home Brew - State Of Mind (2012)
Home Brew
Photo credit: Ryo Nishikawa
Home Brew - 80 Down Scenic official music video (2024)
Sundae Sessions: Home Brew - 55 Stories (2012)
Home Brew play the San Fran, Wellington, as an eight-piece, 7 March 2012. 
Home Brew's December 2023 album, Run It Back. It entered the Aotearoa | New Zealand album charts at No.1 on 15 December.
Sundae Sessions: Home Brew - Good God (2012)
Home Brew, 2023
Home Brew - Time Don't Wait music video (2012)
Home Brew - Yellow Snot Funk music video (2012)
Sundae Sessions: Home Brew - Radio (2012)
Home Brew - Run It Back, Part One
Home Brew feat. Esther Stephens - Plastic Magic (2012)
Home Brew - Listen To Us (2011)
Home Brew. From left: Tom Scott, Lui Silk, Haz Beats. 
Home Brew - Good God Feat. Hollie Smith & Tyna Keelan (2012)
The Shack, where Last Week, Summer Ale and Home Brew's first album were written.
Home Brew top the Mega! Fest bill at the San Fran, Wellington, 11 September 2010. 
The Home Brew Speakeasy tour hits Wellington, 21 July 2012. 
Home Brew - Run It Back, Part Two
Home Brew's self-titled debut album (Young, Gifted & Broke, 2012). The illustration, by Guy Brock, shows the Taro Plantation store at 1878, Great North Road, Avondale.
Home Brew on the NZ Herald Sundae Sessions, April 12, 2012
Home Brew - Yellow Snot Funk & Haz's birthday live at the Espy (2012)
Home Brew. From left: Lui Silk, Tom Scott, Haz Beats. 
Trivia:

Tom Scott is the son of jazz bassist Peter Scott (Bluespeak, Jews Brothers) and his father is the subject of several lyrics on the debut album

Members:

Tom Scott

Hazbeats

Christoph El Truento

Lui Gumaka

Funded by

Partners with