September - Holidays and recovery

Erin was away on her well-deserved holiday for a lot of September. She went all the way to the Big Apple, New York Citaaay. Here are some of Erin's highlights of her NYC trip:
  • Broadway, buena vista social club (which has 3 percussionists who were great, and some incredible vocals), Rocky Horror Picture Show (RIP Tim Curry) (got to meet Kevin from glee!), Book of Mormon
  • Random musicians jamming and busking in central park! Honestly such a vibe
  • Soccer game in Queens that had a killer view of the manhattan skyline
  • Loved being in a place that was so lively, it really is the city that never sleeps!
  • All the sights, got to see so much art! And the MET.
  • Paloma stickers have now gone internationally! One sticker was placed directly across from the outside of the Friends apartment!                                                                                                           
    Violet and Keiran 26/09/26
While Erin was away, the rest of the gang did their best to write some new material with the hope to shock and wow Erin when she returned. This was not particularly fruitful, but we did get some cool stuff cooking! Hopefully you will be able to hear some of the new stuff soon! Keiran got covid (for the first time!) so we weren't able to practice together as much as we'd planned, but he crafted a cute little collage of some of our upcoming gigs while sick.

The week Erin flew back we had two gigs! On Thursday 24th we played at Dissent with Social Afterparty and Nicky. Violet is a huge fan of Social After party, so this was super cool for us! Nicky and her band were sooooo cool, they have the coolest vibe. Was very hard to follow! After our set, Social Afterparty played and Violet sang along to all her favourites of their songs.

Then on Saturday 26th we came right back to Dissent to play with UNIT, a super sick band from Melbourne, and the lovely Lily Hanna, who's also part of local legends Sonic Reducer. We were up first this time. After we played, Lily got up and did a super cool acoustic set. She is so talented at guitar, and she sings while playing these super intricate songs. I am so impressed. UNIT finished it off with a super cool moody set. It was quite a mixed bill, but we loved both Lily and UNIT's sets.

To finish off the month, we played with some Noisy Futures legends for the Annual Rock Camp gig. We got to play with the wonderful Lily Morris and Pema from Dogtooth, who did a super sweet acoustic set. Then, Erin joined Oranges on drums for another super cute set. She had only learnt the songs 3 hours before the performance! And for the first time in a decade... Passive smoke! What an honour to play with them! It was a super special gig. Felt very loved and community love love love. Rock Camp forever ❤️ 

October is going to be huge! We have so many gigs booked! It's also Keiran's Birthday! Wow! October is looking like its going to match July as our busiest month of the year. Please come and show us some support pls... tickets are available through our linktree!

PALOMA OUT!