You can tell that sum­mer is com­ing from the tour­ing inter­na­tion­als headed our way, if not by the weath­er right now! Septem­ber to Decem­ber is always a frenzy of north­ern hemi­sphere bands escap­ing the cold to tour down under and to kick it off none oth­er than Bri­an Jon­estown Mas­sacre are hit­ting (hope­fully not lit­er­ally) Wel­ling­ton on Sept 4th.
BJM, yesterday

Any­one who’s seen the fab­ulous doco that fol­lows BJM and their friends-turned-bit­ter-enemies the Dandy War­hols, Dig, will be excited to see the volat­ile band in the flesh as well as thrilled to know that after a hiatus, tam­bour­ine play­er (yep, that’s his instru­ment) Joel is back in the band.

Sup­por­ted on their Auck­land and Wel­ling­ton tour dates by Shayne Carter­’s Dim­mer and by Mar­tin Phil­lipps’ ever-evolving Chills in Duned­in, the line-up is like a rock-slash-drama ner­d’s dream! But to top it off, if you can­’t make the Wel­ling­ton show (tix selling fast, by the way – from Slow­boat records on Cuba st or through Under the Radar) you should high­tail it to Christ­ch­urch on the 3rd of Septem­ber for the super-spe­cial sup­port from the Has­sel­hoff Exper­i­ment! I kid you not! They reformed for a one-off reunion earli­er this year and blew every­one’s socks off so if the deep south is call­ing you, now’s the time to vis­it. (I have a feel­ing this might be a secret sup­port slot but, hello, don’t tell Wel­ling­ton’s biggest gos­sip in that case… that’s me, by the way). See you at San Fran Bath­house on the 4th – BYO tam­bour­ine.