Onesie Album Release Shows
'Frantic' and 'messy' are the usual stickers stamped on the disaster zones that are ripping across the country's underground music scene. The hard-headed contortions of Ary Jansen and Catherine Cumming, on the other hand, are better suited to the word Onesie.
Independently releasing Squirm, the duo soon roll across New Zealand in preparation of bigger things - that is, breaking into the USA's West Coast come June.
Onesie appears innocent and unassuming, just as Jansen and Cumming are as individuals. But the schizophrenia only kicks in with the sum of their parts when an onstage switch goes off inside Jansen's head - which dizzies clarity until all blood has been bled and the stage once again becomes uncomfortably still. The lyrics "come on everybody, asphyxiate" couldn't be any more appropriate.
Squirm is a statement by Onesie to mark their current standing - a position bookended by an ambitious past and a very welcoming future. It gives off a sullen moodiness which, encased in filth, is more enlightening than you'd expect. But expectation hardly comes into it with how often this otherwise playful twosome will shock. "Moon Rock" was their idea of what their debut EP sounded like - and now more than ever, the double-term articulates Onesie's distant, rare kind of nature. The tides, too, change with the moon.
Earlier this year, Onesie set off with only a debut EP to cover more ground than most other bands their age. After having already opened for The Clean in March, many eyes are now fixed on whatever Onesie will do next.
SHOW DATES
(with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor)
Friday 15 April
Void, Hamilton
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Wednesday 20 April
Re:Fuel, Dunedin
with Doyleys, Haine and Milkshake Cowboyz
Thursday 21 April
Buller St, Dunedin
with Opposite Sex, QTPI and Moth Loves Flame
Friday 22 April
House party in Christchurch
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Saturday 23 April
House party in Wellington
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Sunday 23rd April
Cosmic Corner, Wellington
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Friday 29 April
House party in Auckland
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Thursday 12 May
Whammy Bar, Auckland
with Milkshake Cowboyz and Igor
Squirm will be on sale at all of these shows.
