Model - A Child Swiming EP Release Tour

Description

Model is a beautiful mess & a trio of eye-candy from Tāmaki Makarau. Their hyper-dysfunctional lyrics, eruptive dynamics and nervy melodies form wigged-out tracks that feed off the crowd for an unforgettable show. Following the release of their debut EP, A Child Swimming, through emerging local indie label T & M, Tāmaki's hardest-working government funded industry plant are embarking on a 6 date tour around Te Ika-a-Māui. In the second leg of the tour, MODEL are hitting the shores of Raglan, falling into the Yard. Support from Grecco Romank: GRECCO ROMANK are Tāmaki Makaurau’s premiere purveyors of brutalist sewer-pop: stitching together opera, industrial rave, and gleefully uncommercial chaos. Formed in 2020 their world is one where high art slips in dog shit, crashes head-first into a drum machine, and emerges snarling, sweaty, and weirdly catchy. Grecco will be joined onstage for vocal duties by fiercely talented and demonically popular Sean Murphy (CCTV, Boxer Priest) and Princess Paradox. Over their decrepit six year existence Grecco have released a rapid-fire series of albums (Red Tower, Wet Exit, Arts Colony) that have dominated alternative charts, been nominated twice for Best Alternative Artist at the AMA’s, and topping the Student Radio Network’s Top 10 in 2023, all whilst refusing every expectation of commercial sense. Critics have described their music as everything from “luxuriously bogan techno” to “the rave you never want to end up at but always get dragged into.” Their live shows — part rave, part performance art, part deranged group fitness class — are infamous for their intensity. Collaboration fuels the band: they’ve worked with Princess Chelsea, Our Carlson, Eden Burns, Lawrence Arabia, Dick Move, and dozens more, expanding their sonic universe while keeping their core chaos intact. Their 300-page Arts Colony book, now sold out, extends their world into satire, visual art, and fictional cultural history.