gigs / 29 london street / lyttelton
MONTHS / june & july

NED COLLETTE
with support from BEN WOODS
friday 20th june / 7:30pm
get your tickets here from UTR
or $25 on the door
Collette’s most recent album, Our Other History, was released late in 2024 on the US label Sophomore Lounge and features contributions from regular collaborators including Jim White and Mick Turner of the Dirty Three, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, the folk singer Leah Senior, and other luminaries of adventurous music worldwide. His live performances drift between delicate, intimate folk and explorative sonic jam-outs, both when performing solo or in various band combinations
Over the years Collette has collaborated and toured with such artists as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Bill Callahan, St Vincent, Kurt Vile and Deerhoof, amongst many others. Funny, haunting and sad, often all at once, the music nonetheless manages to remain plain-spoken and uncluttered, despite its expansive vision
“Ned’s music wears its modernity subtly and surely and is as rewarding a listening experience as I’ve come across in recent times.” – Will Oldham

HIGH ALTER
with TJOPI / COMBOVER
saturday 12th july / 7:30pm
get your tickets here from UTR
or $15 on the door
HIGH ALTAR unveil an intense crackle of spectral sounds with their sonic form of 'neon jazz'.
This two-piece is a potent audio tool built on
a bare-bones structure of rhythm section components and added electronic timbre which alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers; trailing vortices with oscillatory behaviour
TJOPI is Popi Newbery (Tühoe and Ngati Porou) and Tjalling de Vries. They create semi industrial layers of field recordings, synth, sheetmetal feedback and looped samples that provide a sinister soundscape for Popi's toi kupu and reinterpreted waiata in both te reo and english
DJ COMBOVER will play the tunes to conceal our musical bald spots

saturday 19th july / 7:30pm
$10/$20