Even voorstellen – PISS signs to Sub Pop – Live at Les Nuits Botanique

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PISS, the evocative, noisy, genre-bending 4-piece punk band from Vancouver, B.C. are announcing today that they have signed to Sub Pop for the world and in Canada with Paper Bag Records. Ahead of the new material we are all eagerly awaiting, PISS has scheduled international headlining and festival dates spanning the spring, summer, and Autumn of 2026, beginning Saturday, May 2nd, in Liverpool, UK, at Sound City Festival and running through Thursday, November 5th, in Reykjavik, at Iceland Airwaves.

Highlights of this announcement include headlining shows in Glasgow, London (Sold Out), Manchester, and Paris in May, as well as appearances at festivals like The Great Escape, London Calling, Pickathon, End of the Road, and Brighton Psych Festival.

Post-Trash says of the band, “PISS are a lightning bolt. The Vancouver-based punk band’s debut three demos blurs the lines between hardcore, art-rock, and experimental poetry. PISS hits with the same onslaught of being thunderstruck.” DIY offers this, “The group combine their music with spoken word poetry, visual art, and experimental performance, putting on a show that blurs the lines between wildly complex interpersonal and political themes, with a beautifully human feel to it.” Meanwhile, Exclaim says, "More than any other local hardcore band today, PISS place crucial emphasis on words, those of both singer and poet-at-heart Taylor Zantingh's and, through audio samples, feminist activist Andrea Dworkin's (ever committed to accessibility, the quartet also includes captions in its videos). Over corrosive noise and riffs that clench, wrench and tear like the jaws of life, Zantingh unpacks her experiences with body image issues and codependency as she shouts, growls, and shrieks in protest against enculturated ideas about female sexuality and the subjugation of women...with iron determination, PISS are putting in the work, learning skills and habits that can nourish anyone. Pay attention and follow along." Finally, The Line of Best Fit says of the band’s music and live show, “Weeks after getting to chat with the members of PISS online, I am now here witnessing their live power. It is like nothing I have ever seen before… a sound that’s entirely new and stunningly raw.”

PISS combines music, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and various mediums of visual art to address complex themes that blur the line between personal and political. Powered by a combination of thoughtful musicianship, energetic live performances, and a crystal-clear vision of a safer underground community, PISS writes punk music that aims to
transcend the limitations of a well-established genre by pulling inspiration from a wide range of unexpected influences: literary giants, philosophers, filmmakers, painters, psychoanalysts, activists, children, members of a German anarcho-feminist militant group, and audience members from their shows, to name a few. These voices represent varying ideological beliefs about gender-based violence and enable PISS to create art that depicts challenging and controversial issues such as sexual violence and enculturated gender norms without reduction, romanticization, polemics, or dogmatism.

PISS comprises poet and teacher Taylor Zantingh on vocals, filmmaker Tyler Paterson on guitar, Gavin Moya on bass, and Garreth Roberts on drums.