Photo credit: Jake Mein
After 24 months of touring and toiling, four piece kiwi band Soaked Oats release the first single ‘Shuggah Doom’ from their forthcoming EP! The single is accompanied by a music video that sneakily combines both literal and deeper meanings to the easy-going manoeuvres of the track. The song was produced alongside Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Jen Cloher, Miss June) at The Lab in central Auckland, and the video was shot by Jake Munro in the south Auckland Bombay Hills featuring the talented Roxie Mohebbi and Findlay Buchanan with a huge ensemble of interchangeable cast and crew.
Check it out below!
Lyricist and lead vocalist, Oscar Mein, elaborates on the song, “The song was written as if writing a script, the video and song play with each other and is intended to make us look at how we narrativise our own lives and desire to have lives worth telling a story about. But how that’s kind of meaningless because it’s about the living and everyone trying their best to do that.”
Punctuating the release came the rare invitation to play at UK’s well-established music festival, The Great Escape in Brighton in May 2019 to which the band accepted with open arms and much gratitude.
Encapsulating the New Zealand summer with ‘Shuggah Doom’s roaming rhythms and twinkling guitars, Soaked Oats deliver an extra six dates to their 13 stop tour around Aotearoa, spreading their slinky sludge pop across our shores with a mixture of festival appearances and headline shows. Nine dates deep into their New Zealand tour, the band are en route to the Land of Plenty (Australia) for a five-date whistle-stop tour.
Soaked Oats – ‘Shuggah Doom’ Tour
Feb 1st – Melbourne @ Open Bar (supporting Space Cabanara)
Feb 3 – Melbourne @ Grace Darling Hotel
Feb 4 – Canberrra @ The Phoenix
Feb 6 – Wollongong @ Rad Bar
Feb 8 – Sydney @ Oxford Art Factory
Presale tickets available via each venue, or via Facebook events.
Feb 16 – Christchurch @ Nostalgia Festival
Feb 17 – Oamaru @ Scotts Brewery
Feb 21 – Dunedin @ The Cook
Feb 23 – Kapiti Coast @ Coastella Festival
All Tickets from undertheradar
+ newly announced
Corona Sunsets Presents:
Friday March 8 – La Zeppa, Auckland
Saturday March 9 – Mangawhai Tavern, Coromandel
Sunday March 10 – Our Place, Tauranga
Friday March 15 – Fox Glove, Wellington
Wednesday March 27 – Fat Eddie’s, Christchurch
Thursday March 28 – Vault21, Dunedin
