Ripship & Swallow the Rat - 2022 Tour - Tāmaki Makaurau s Ripship and Swallow the Rat combine forces for an end of year tour to celebrate their upcoming releases. Sci-fi psych-rock duo - buy tickets
New York’s
Swallow the Rat (featuring ex-My Education guitarist
Brian Purington) shared a stage in Queens, NYC on perhaps the last day before the city shut down in 2020.
A mutual appreciation society was formed over drinks later that night. Swallow the Rat were in town to play the New Colossus Festival, while Clone were playing what was to be the first date of their debut tour of the East Coast. There were plans to share the stage again in New Orleans and in Austin at SXSW.
A global pandemic put an end to this, but the bands kept talking. Both had recently recorded EPs, and so a plan was hatched: a split 12” with songs from both bands.