15 August 2022 - 0 Comments

Melbourne’s kings of instrumental soul Surprise Chef today announce their debut New Zealand tour in support of the band’s upcoming third album, Education & Recreation.

The tour kicks off at Auckland’s Tuning Fork on Friday October 21, before heading to the capital on Saturday October 22 for a special show at Meow as part of the Wellington Jazz Festival.

Tickets for all shows go on sale 12pm, Thursday August 18.

My Live Nation members can secure tickets first during an exclusive pre-sale beginning 12pm Wednesday August 17 until 11am Thursday August 18.

For complete tour and ticket information visit livenation.co.nz.

Surprise Chef are Melbourne's cinematic soul journeymen, producing moody shades of instrumental jazz-funk inspired by 1970’s soul and legendary composer/producers like David Axelrod and Isaac Hayes.

The band’s live shows are odysseys as they dig into the funkier side of jazz crates and sample material that forms the foundation of hip hop, all through the lens of five musicians from Australia who are deeply committed to representing the ongoing story of soul music.

Their debut LP All News Is Good News was released in 2019 and slipped rapidly into the collective consciousness of underground music lovers around the world, with the initial vinyl pressing selling out worldwide within a week of its release.

Recording in an analogue studio within a 100-year old house in Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Coburg dubbed The College of Knowledge, Surprise Chef have since followed up with a flurry of recordings including 2020’s sophomore album Daylight Savings and numerous other releases including remixes by legendary NYC house paragons Masters At Work and Melbourne don Harvey Sutherland, and a 7” single that documented the band’s reinterpretation of enigmatic Japanese shakuhachi player Minoru Muraoka’s 1970 opus The Positive and The Negative.

With their third album Education & Recreation, Surprise Chef now find a home on Brooklyn’s Big Crown Records, joining a lineage of contemporary music in the cannon of soul that has directed their music since the band and label’s respective formations in 2017.

Don’t miss Surprise Chef live in New Zealand for the first time this October.

SURPRISE CHEF

Education & Recreation NZ Tour

TUNING FORK, AUCKLAND
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21

MEOW, WELLINGTON
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22

TICKETS ON SALE MIDDAY THURSDAY AUGUST 18
Live Nation pre-sale: 12pm Wednesday August 17 – 11am Thursday August 18

For complete tour and ticket information, visit livenation.co.nz

Photo Credit: Izzie Austin

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