[DID NOT ATTEND: May 2, 2025] Niis / Pollyanna
I was supposed to see Pollyanna open for Pinkshift a couple of years ago. The date that I was going was rescheduled and a different band opened. But I have been fairly obsessed with Pollyanna ever since.
They pay noisy, aggressive (yet catchy) punk and are politically motivated.
I’ve been following them online and didn’t even consider that they were not the headliners of this show. Especially since I hadn’t heard of Niis.
But since reading about them, I’ve checked out Niis and really liked them. They remind me a lot of the earlier unpolished Hole. But with a real old school hardcore vibe thrown in.
NIIS—pronounced “Nice”— synthesizes the sounds of punk, hardcore, lo-fi garage, and early grunge… Mimi, the band’s fierce ringleader, uses her guttural screams to orally dissert capitalism and sociopolitical constructs.
This sounds like it would have been a great show. But I had been out the night before and was going out the following night, so I had to give it a pass Bummer. I hope to see both bands in the future.
I Just Read About That... 