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.