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SURPRISE CHEF

EDUCATION & RECREATION NZ TOUR

Saturday, 22 October 2022

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.

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. 

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.