Don’t let the name—or the sly “easy listening” tagline on their Instagram—fool you. Vancouver’s PISS are anything but gentle. The four-piece punk/art collective have announced a six-week international tour that’ll see them tear through Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Europe this fall, bringing their raw, genre-obliterating performances to a series of clubs, festivals, and unsuspecting audiences across two continents.
If you’ve caught them live, you already know what’s coming. Their sets feel less like shows and more like controlled detonations—tense, cathartic, and emotionally blistering. “A pack of open nerves” is how RANGE described them after a Sled Island set that had people crying in the crowd. When they played with Lambrini Girls, Exclaim! called out their ability to completely shift the atmosphere from note one. It’s art. It’s punk. It’s chaos, turned surgical.
Fronted by Taylor Zantingh, whose lyricism cuts deep into themes of gender violence, predation, and systemic cruelty, PISS fuse noise, poetry, performance art, sound collage, and razor-edged punk into a live experience that feels as cerebral as it is bodily. Zantingh’s presence is gripping—sometimes vulnerable, sometimes furious, but always intensely real. Backed by the surgical chaos of Tyler Paterson (guitar), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums), the band brings a sound that’s both precise and guttural, equal parts philosophy and feral energy.
And that “easy listening” joke? It’s not just irony—it’s a statement. PISS challenge the idea that loud, angry music can’t also carry layered, nuanced thought. They’re pulling from everywhere—German anarcho-feminist militants, Freud, film, literature, even their own audience members. It’s punk, yes. But not as you know it.
Despite only having a few demos up on Bandcamp, PISS have already built a passionate community around them. And now, with a team behind them and a growing list of festival bookings, they’re taking it worldwide. The tour kicks off in Vancouver this July with a string of West Coast U.S. dates before hitting POP Montreal, Project Nowhere in Toronto, and then crossing the Atlantic for a U.K./EU run that includes The Windmill, Twisterella, SWN, Left of the Dial, and more.
Catch them while you can. Or miss one of the most exciting, confrontational, and deeply human punk acts currently stomping across stages.
PISS LIVE DATES – 2025
August 21 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre (w/ Bratmobile)
September 13 – Seattle, WA – Barboza (w/ Omni)
September 15 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall (w/ Omni)
September 17 – San Francisco, CA – Kilowatt (w/ Omni)
September 18 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (w/ Omni)
September 25 – Montreal, QC – POP Montreal
September 26 – Montreal, QC – POP Montreal
September 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Ortlieb’s Lounge
September 30 – Queens, NYC – Trans-Pecos
October 3 – Toronto, ON – Baby G (Project Nowhere)
October 8 – London, U.K. – Strongrooms
October 9 – London, U.K. – The Windmill
October 11 – Middlesbrough, U.K. – Twisterella Festival
October 16 – Cardiff, WA – SWN Festival
October 17 – Norwich, U.K. – Wild Paths Festival (Store Church)
October 18 – Birmingham, U.K. – Future Days Festival
October 22 – Gent, BE – Big Next Festival
October 23 – Rotterdam, NL – Left of the Dial Festival
October 24 – Rotterdam, NL – Left of the Dial Festival
Keep an eye on their Bandcamp for more (or just to remind yourself how much noise can be packed into a demo). This fall, PISS is bringing the storm.
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