The New Things w/ Interlopers and Gram Antler
7pm Saturday 7 December at St Peter’s Hall
$10 + BF or Koha
The New Things (TNT) are returning to Paekākāriki after scoring the one of the best drummers in town!
Their song Vintage Nerd hit No1 on Bfm. Radio New Zealand music reviewer, Grant Smithies, called their sound “ace rickety guitar pop like The Raincoats and Look Blue Go Purple” with an “endearing spindliness.
Interlopers are a unique combo of acoustic guitar, bass and cello with original songs that lean into time-honoured melodic hooks and lyrical wit and wisdom.
Gram Antler is the solo project of Pōneke singer, bass player and guitarist, Jason Johnson (Ebony Lamb, Marlon Willams, French For Rabbits, Eb & Sparrow). Reformed choirboy and post-alt-country, Johnson presents Gram Antler as an anachronism, a man unstuck in time, so it goes. The songs aspire to be pop, but seem to congeal into a form that can only be described as Slacker Yacht-Rock.
