Hail, Meteor! + The Blue Summer + The Fairlight Choir

Hail, Meteor! return to the Wellington stage for the first time in over a year. With the lead single ‘Sweet’ from their impending album topping the charts of the Student Radio Network, the band have been far from inactive, writing and recording in their various studios around the country. On May 9th they play tunes from their new album, along with Palmy’s glorious The Fairlight Choir and Wellington’s premier dark pop-ists, The Blue Summer at Underworld Tavern on Pirie Street. There will be volume, there will be harmonies of strange origins, there will be a whole lot of reverb and deafening sway.

The Fairlight Choir
Hailing from Manawatū and Horowhenua, Aotearoa post-punk outfit The Fairlight Choir are committed to improvisation, repetition and unfiltered transparency of the creative process. The group's debut double-single - Source/Code and The Cord - was conceived, gestated and recorded live & uncut in the rehearsal spaces of Papaioea institution The Stomach.

Comprised of Jeremy Nolan (Force Fields, The Postures, The Dukes of Leisure), Bryan Gibson (Fader, Empirical Methods) and Jono Galuszka (First Move, Man In Rug), The Fairlight Choir takes inspiration from provincial blight, the times we inhabit and fresh approaches to long-held traditions.

The Blue Summer
This rock five-piece from the heart of Pōneke summons both the sinister and the sublime. A fusion of gothic ambience, driving new-wave riffs, and a strangely dank groove.

Above the rich melodies, the lyrics soar and tear at the decaying fabric of humanity, conjuring tales of shadows and secrets - from serial murder to the suffocating grip of obsession, love, power, sacrifice, and betrayal.

Wellington's The Blue Summer is music for the restless, the rebellious, the morbid romantics, and the lost souls who find solace where passion and madness entwine.

Tickets $15 from Under The Radar. $20 on the door