Banished Music Presents 

KIRIN J CALLINAN

If I Could Sing: A decade of EMBRACISM & beyond 

August 5 Meow WELLINGTON 

With support from Vanessa Worm

Wild & wondrous Australian artist Kirin J Callinan returns to New Zealand to play three shows this July & August.  Callinan will launch his new solo album ‘If I Could Sing’ at Elemental Nights Auckland August 4th, Meow Wellington August 5th, as well as performing three weeks earlier at Nightlight festival New Plymouth July 13, alongside Arlo Parks, Alien Weaponry (NZ), Kirin J Callinan (AUS) Erny Belle, Dartz, Earth Tongue and Samara Alofa with PollyHill. 

“One of the country’s most original, irreverent and sometimes controversial music personas, Callinan’s style is unpredictable and eclectic.”  - The Guardian

Kirin J Callinan’s new album, ‘If I Could Sing’, is released on 23 June and includes singles ‘Young Drunk Driver’  featuring Hubert Lenoir and ‘Anæmic Adonis’ a ‘skittering electro-pop mishmash, hurtling along on an ecstatic bed of synth and drums’ as described by the Guardian. ‘If I Could Sing’ will be Callinan’s fourth solo album release following ‘Embracism’ (2013) ‘Bravado’ (2017) and ‘Return to Centre’ (2019). 

He has collaborated with the best of them, from Connan Mockasin to Weyes Blood,  Neil Finn, Jimmy Barnes and most recently working with American artist Caroline Polacheck on her latest album ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ and Australian artist Genesis Owusu on his, ‘Smiling With No Teeth’.

“Kirin J Callinan is an apex predator. A butterfly. A grassfire. A beautiful baby boy wandered curious into the gun safe… Out there, somewhere, is a pendulum that swings recklessly between madness and delicate precision. His name is Kirin J.” - Roy Molloy 

“Equal parts warped, shameless and brilliant.” - Under the Radar 

“His music is like a mix of the darkness and intensity of Nick Cave and his Birthday Party band mate Rowland S. Howard, the agitating and punishing experimentalism of industrial bands such as Swans, Coil, and fellow Australians Severed Heads, and then there are heartfelt, bashful moments akin to arty Britpop band Pulp.” - NZ Herald

August 5 Meow WELLINGTON