Welling­ton rock­ers Super­mod­el are team­ing up with Christchurch wave-mak­ers Sleep­ing Dogs and kick­ing off the year with a North Island tour. They’ll be back in Welling­ton lat­er this week. Both bands are pro­mot­ing their UK-pro­duced albums which were released in 2011.

Supermodel or Sleeping Dogs?
Smith’s Dream?

The Welling­ton show is the eighth of eight shows, so they’ll be nii­i­ice and road-honed by the time they get here.

Press kit time:

Super­mod­el have been receiv­ing rave reviews of their cur­rent LP, To the Moun­tains, with some crit­ics call­ing the record “a real mover and shak­er of a release”; that its “colour and punch… sets Super­mod­el apart from oth­er bands on the Welling­ton land­scape”. The record went straight to top posi­tion on the iTunes rock charts at the time of its release. Super­mod­el are a bril­liant live act; tight vocal har­monies meld per­fect­ly with con­cise and catchy rock arrange­ments that have beau­ti­ful sing-along cho­rus­es.

Sleep­ing Dogs are also tour­ing their cur­rent album and have received sim­i­lar reviews. Their songs have been described as “unavoid­able, deep and unapolo­getic”, while their sound and style is “extrav­a­gant, big, epic and over-the-top, with long, long instru­men­tal parts”. They, like Super­mod­el, secured the ser­vices of high­ly sought-after UK pro­duc­er Greg Haver, along with the in-house mix­ing tal­ents of Clint Mur­phy, giv­ing their album Myth Reduc­er its huge, clas­sic rock sound. The video of their sin­gle, Myth Reduc­er has been receiv­ing air­play and music tele­vi­sion rota­tion.

That sound bloody unmiss­able, does­n’t it? The fun hap­pens at Bar Bode­ga, this Fri­day 17th Feb­ru­ary. Cov­er $10, tick­ets (and links) at www.undertheradar.co.nz.

You can score your­self a dou­ble pass to the show by cor­rect­ly iden­ti­fy­ing the band in the pho­to (above). Is it Sleep­ing Dogs, or Super­mod­el? First cor­rect answer in com­ments wins!

Super­mod­el and Sleep­ing Dogs

  • Bar Bode­ga, Fri­day 17th Feb­ru­ary