gigs / 29 london street / ōhinehou
MONTHS may & june
BIG SIGH / EP release show
saturday 9th may / 7pm
door sales only $20 waged / $10 unwaged
Big Sigh is the musical collaboration between Rachel Hope Peary and Nicholas Joseph Walsh who reside in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton).
The pair forged a friendship and musical partnership in early 2024, anchored in their intertwined harmonies, finger-picked acoustic guitar and the steady drone of harmonium. Astute listeners would have already heard them and seen them perform with their contemporaries Womb, Jazmine Mary and Jim Nothing.
Now signed to Sunreturn, Big Sigh will be performing for the first time in Otautahi to celebrate the release of their debut EP Tether. The forthcoming EP captures that first rush of creative momentum, a collection of the earliest songs born from a partnership that felt, from the outset, instinctive and inevitable.
Have a listen to their EP here on bandcamp
CROOK
with the perfect gun and abandoned carparks
friday 5th june / 7pm
get your tickets here from UTR
Following the release of their debut album, Murderous Intent, Crook are undertaking a 9 date national tour through May-June to make friends and influence people. Come, listen and see.
Crook; Aki (Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, Horror in Clay), Hugh (Alec, Caroles), Fraser (Heroes for Sale, Juiceroof), and Aaron (Saturnian Noise Collective, The Pleasure Majenta), are playing their first gig down in Ōhinehou at Lyttelton Coffee Company, joined by:
The Perfect Gun
Abandoned Carparks
Abandoned Carparks are an Ōtautahi Slowcore trio with a focus on ambient melancholy and minimalism but also not afraid to get a bit noisy from time to time. Influences range from Twin Peaks to 90s Toyota’s and everything else in between.