I keep mean­ing to post about all the fant­ast­ic inter­na­tion­al gigs that are about to hap­pen in Wel­ling­ton as sum­mer kicks in, but what with the 2AWA and Blams fever, the launch of CHOICE magazine, the golden weath­er and the party sea­son, I’ve been a bit slack.

So it is with some urgency that I draw your atten­tion to two shows com­ing up in the next week:

Gales­burg presents The Gos­sip and Palo­mino presents Black Lips

The Gos­sip play this Sat­urday night (8th) at the San Fran Bath­house with loc­als Cor­tina, and Black Lips at the same ven­ue next Tues­day the 11th with Knife Fight.

Tick­ets avail­able from Slow­boat Records, Cuba St.

Read more after the jump about both bands and sup­ports…

Read an art­icle about The Gos­sip and you’d be temp­ted to think the band is all about Beth Ditto being as com­fort­able with her weight as she is with diss­ing fel­low musos, but there’s so much more to this rock­’n’disco soul band than, well, gos­sip. Listen here and hear for your­self. They’ll be sup­por­ted by Cor­tina, play­ing their first show in aaages, with sing­er Bek Coogan fly­ing back from Ber­lin last week espe­cially for this show.

Next Tues­day meet the all-boy anti­dote to the elec­tro-femme Gos­sip when Atlanta’s dis­owned sons Black Lips hit town, tour­ing their incred­ible, razor’s-edge-sloppy punk 3rd album Good Bad, Not Evil, put­ting the lys­er­gic back into live shows with anarch­ic onstage antics and their pecu­li­ar brand of flower-punk/­power-pop. They’ll be sup­por­ted by killer loc­al trash band Knife Fight.

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Tick­ets avail­able from Slow­boat Records, Cuba St. Both shows are on at the San Fran Bath­house, Cuba St.