New Music & Video Release - Ringlets release new single, 'Hard Evidence' - 8th May 2026
Photo Credit - Troy Davis
Artist Name - Ringlets
Release Name - Hard Evidence
Release Date - 8th May 2026
Genre - Post-Punk, Indie-Rock, Indie
Label - Flying Nun Records
“Incredible band.” - Deb Grant, BBC Radio 6
“Ringlets are the most exciting post-punk band to emerge from the New Zealand music scene in years.” - Rolling Stone Magazine
Ringlets today share ‘Hard Evidence’, their sassy and supernal new single, via Flying Nun Records. Touching on labour, collapse, and stolen trousers - arriving with a music video directed by Martin Sagadin. The track finds the Auckland post-punk four piece in vivid, uncompromising form.
‘Hard Evidence’ was recorded over a day at Roundhead Studios with De Stevens - more time than the band have previously been allotted for a single track. That space allowed the song to be developed fully in the room, and the result is audible: delicate, more industrial in texture, and underpinned by a melody a little sweet beneath the surface. Sagadin’s video takes that same physicality somewhere more surreal, where support and strain occasionally look indistinguishable.
The single follows Ringlets’ sophomore album The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies), released June 2025 via Flying Nun Records.
Produced at The Lab in Auckland with Olly Harmer and Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks), and mixed by Isaac Keating at Abbey Road Studios, the album announced Ringlets as one of the most vital bands to emerge from Aotearoa in years.
The record hit #4 on the Official Aotearoa Music Charts Hot 20 Albums, with every single reaching #1 on the Aotearoa Alternative Radio Charts. Earning rave reviews from Rolling Stone and The Big Issue, the album was subsequently named a finalist for the Taite Music Prize alongside the likes of Marlon Williams and Tom Scott. The band have also been nominated for 'Best Group' at the 2026 Aotearoa Music Awards.
Live, Ringlets are a different proposition again. Their first Australian tour culminated in eight sold-out shows, an appearance at BIGSOUND Festival in Brisbane, and festival slots at Rhythm & Vines, Twisted Frequency, and Laneway Festival. They recently opened for Black Country, New Road, and tomorrow will begin a 28-date run of the U.K and Europe including appearances at The Great Escape Festival, ArcTanGent, and headline shows at The Windmill, the Hug & Pint and Supersonic Paris.
MAY 9th - OXFORD, UK AT THE TRUCK MUSIC STORE
MAY 10th - LONDON, UK AT PACIFIC TAVERN
MAY 13th-15th - BRIGHTON, UK AT THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL
MAY 17th - LONDON, UK AT THE WINDMILL BRIXTON
MAY 19th - SOUTHAMPTON, UK AT HEARTBREAKERS
MAY 20th - BATH, UK AT ROSEBERRY ROAD STUDIOS
MAY 21st - CARDIFF, WALES AT FUEL ROCK CLUB
MAY 22nd - BIRMINGHAM, UK AT THE SUNFLOWER LOUNGE
MAY 24th - NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, UK AT ZEROX
MAY 25th - GLASGOW, UK AT THE HUG & PINT
MAY 26th - EDINBURGH, UK AT THE VOODOO ROOMS
MAY 29th - CARMARTHEN, UK AT CWRW
MAY 31st - LONDON, UK AT THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
JUNE 3rd - PARIS, FR AT SUPERSONIC
JUNE 4th - GRONINGEN, NL AT VERA
JUNE 6th - COLOGNE, DE AT ARTHEATER (SUPPORTING WORLD NEWS)
JUNE 7th - HALDERN, DE AT HALDERN POP BAR
JUNE 8th - KUSEL, DE AT KINETT
JUNE 10th - BERLIN, DE AT 8MM
JUNE 12th - LEIPZIG, DE AT MVB
JUNE 15th - MUNICH, DE AT SUBSTANZ CLUB
JUNE 16th - VIENNA, AT AT KRAMLADEN
JUNE 18th - ZAGREB, HR AT MOČVARA
AUGUST 21st - BRISTOL, UK AT ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 23rd - ROTTERDAM, NL AT LEFT OF THE DIAL FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 24th - ROTTERDAM, NL AT LEFT OF THE DIAL FESTIVAL
More to be announced! Tickets from Ringlets.co.nz