Miss June are an Auckland four piece melodic punk band who have been in existence for around five years now and this year released their debut album " Bad Luck Party". After touring in the US, they return home for a short tour to support the new record.
Their only South Island show at Cassels Blue Smoke was supported by Local artist Jed Parsons and Young Queenstown group, Haven.
Haven were up first, a very young three piece playing poppy indie rock with some nice tunes, their 30 minute set was most enjoyable. The bass player did most of the singing but the guitarist sang one song which he said he composed as part of a composition course he had been studying, it was their best song of the night.
Jed Parsons I had seen supporting The Beths last year at the same venue and my impressions that night were underwhelming but this time I did enjoy his set a lot more than the first time. I recognized their first single from one of the "Counting The Beat" Podcast I listen to and it is a great song. This set of Jed's indie pop was another push in tempting me to pick up his record, but money stopped me.
The crowd for Miss June was much smaller than I expected for such an accomplished band, with the venue only being about half full of very young and very enthusiastic punters, there were only about three of us grey hairs in the audience this night which I find unusual for a lot of the rock gigs I attend nowadays. Miss June were as energetic and fired up as I was hoping, their music is a blend of Pixies, Verruca Salt and Sonic Youth, with the Sonic Youth coming through with some of the noisy bits with distortion and feedback howling at us through the PA. Annabel Liddell, the lead singer puts on a great show with her jumping all about the stage, jumping into the crowd of very energetic moshers and even ended one song hanging from the rafter above the stage. At one stage Jun Park, the guitarist was surfing the crowd on his back while thrashing out on his guitar. Annabel is a great front person and looks to get a sexual buzz from singing the songs as she often caresses her body and lifts her t-shirt or puts her hand almost into the front of her jeans but stops short of being obscene or exposing herself. They finished the set with Polio, the last song from the album and their best in my opinion, a dark almost industrial piece, after which they left the stage in a squall of feedback. They did not stay off the stage for long as the boisterous audience cheered them back for a couple more songs from their first EP including a longer version of Drool which only clocks in at about a minute on the record. A very good show that lived up to and maybe exceeded my expectations.
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