Wellington legend Vorn Colgan has been writing and releasing extraordinary and odd popular music from bedrooms across Aotearoa and the world since 1999, a career which was scheduled to be cut short in 2019 by a terminal cancer diagnosis. 2023 saw him release his surprisingly non-posthumous hit The Late Album, and given his demonstrated inability to die he was left with maybe the world's most wonderful problem: what to record for his 10th album?
The answer is The Aeronaut, a 60ish minute meditation on Wellington, the universe, and everything, hewn from purest regionally-sourced prog rock and presented in a single baffling and hopefully pleasant serving. The Aeronaut is currently still a work in progress; this evening offers keen punters a chance to watch Vorn and his frighteningly good band (Nick Brown - Drums; Charley Davenport - Bass, Thomas Liggett - Violin) iron out the final kinks on a future Kiwi classic. Be there so you can say you were!
https://vornpowertool.bandcamp.com/
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Pre-cataclysmic vibes rule the uber-mysterious Thagomizer’s planet... The crushing footfall of a wandering Diplodocus, anyone? Maybe a casual side-serving of Pterodactyl screech? Known for a small child's handful of extremely well-received demo recordings and inspired by retro dinosaur media, Thagomizer conjures a blackened prehistoric rumble. The result? Mesozoic moods that transport you back in time. It's like that meteor never even happened.
https://thagomizer.bandcamp.com
$17.50 presales available via UTR
Special thanks to CNZ for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
