After a watershed year in 2024 with SABOTAGE, multi award-winning and 2025 Taite Prize finalist Mel Parsons brings a taste of things to come with her upbeat, introspective new single and video ‘Post High Slide’. Parsons will celebrate the new single with a run of shows through Aotearoa and Australia in June 2025.

• Sunday May 25 - San Fran Wellington
• Friday June 6 - Tuning Fork Auckland
• Saturday June 7 - Loons Christchurch
• Thursday June 12 - Northcote Social Club Melbourne
• Friday June 13 - The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine
• Saturday June 14 - Archies Creek Arts VIC
• Sunday June 15 - The Vanguard Sydney

Ticket info for all shows is at Plus1.co.nz and MelParsons.com

Upbeat acoustic guitar and syncopated melodic hooks set the stage for the track, which draws inspiration from the highs and lows of tour life:

“I used to get post tour blues pretty bad,” Parsons reflects. “I’d come home and thump back down to earth after a sustained period of excitement and adventure.”

“Touring is the daily adrenaline-shot of performing live, then the contrast of coming back to the reality of domestic life and the never-ending admin of being an indie artist.”

The Lyttelton-based singer-songwriter has also released incredible visuals for the single, the music video shot live on tour with Parsons and her band supporting Crowded House on their GRAVITY STAIRS TOUR, giving fans a glimpse into their 7-date arena run in late 2024.

"Post High Slide’ is a track that’s as introspective as it is infectious - atestament to Parsons’ continued evolution as an artist. The song contrasts the enormity of performing to large
crowds with the quiet emptiness that follows. As Parsons describes it, it’s the feeling of “playing to thousands every night, then going home with that ‘whatthe hell do we do now’ kind of feeling.”