14 Jun 2025

Live on Music 101: Mel Parsons’ post high slide

From Music 101, 3:00 pm on 14 June 2025
Mel Parsons visits Radio New Zealand's Auckland studio for a Music 101 performance in June 2025.

Mel Parsons visits Radio New Zealand's Auckland studio for a Music 101 performance in June 2025. Photo: Alex Harmer

Folk outfit Mel Parsons joins Kara Rickard in the RNZ studios to perform three songs live on Music 101.

Parsons was up for three awards at the Aotearoa Music Awards 2025. New singles ‘Brick By Brick’ and ‘Post High Slide’ succeed her 2024 album Sabotage.

In celebration of the release, Mel Parsons has taken to the road. This month the band will play dates in Australian centres such as Melbourne, Castlemaine, Archies Creek and Sydney. Earlier in June, she played Aotearoa centres Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.


Mel Parsons shows – Australia

  • 12 June – Northcote Social Club – Melbourne

  • 13 June – The Bridge Hotel – Castlemaine

  • 14 June – Archies Creek Arts – Archies Creek

  • 15 June – The Vanguard – Sydney

Christchurch musician Mel Parsons, a white woman with long dark hair, sits on a brown couch with her eyes closed and a hand up to her mouth

Christchurch musician Mel Parsons Photo: Supplied