(((folkYEAH!))) Presents – Surprise Chef at Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA
Get your tickets to see (((folkYEAH!))) Presents – Surprise Chef in Santa Cruz, CA. Happening on Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Moe’s Alley. Doors open at 9:00 PM.
(((folkYEAH!))) presents Surprise Chef!Saturday, July 26thDoors: 8pm / Show: 9pm$22 in advance / $25 day of the show21+*Tickets on sale Friday, Feb. 7th at 9am PT*SURPRISE CHEFFrom little things, instrumental juggernauts grow. The members of Surprise Chef first gathered in 2017 with the modest aim of recording to tape a couple of spontaneous funk jams. As planned, those analogue sessions gave rise to a series of collectable 45s but the unexpected gold they uncovered was a chemistry and camaraderie that has come to define the lives of the band-members ever since. Three LPs and countless international tours later, Surprise Chef is globally recognized and respected with their emotive brand of cinematic soul, a sound that has been informed equally by their isolation in Australia and their deep love for soul, funk and classic film-scores. Their first album, All News Is Good News, established the foundation for their distinctive sound, and each subsequent release has pushed their creative boundaries. Along the journey theyve garnered praise from the likes of Questlove and Jurassic 5s DJ Nu-Mark and were sampled for a collaboration between 88 Risings Rich Brian and Wu Tangs legendary Ghostface Killah. They also provided the soundtrack to a Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime advertisement. After spending the first half of 2024 immersed in their critically acclaimed re-score of the 1970s Australian cult classic Wake in Fright – performed live alongside a never-before-seen 4K screening of the movie – the band found themselves in an entirely new creative space. Fresh from the intensity of that project, the recording sessions for Superb were intended to be the opposite process-wise; lighter, less intense, more free and spontaneous. Guitarist and songwriter, Lachlan Stuckey says: Superb was a real shift in process for us we care a great deal about the music we make being purposeful and meaningful and that mentality has given birth to a bunch of records were really proud of, but also can leave little room for spontaneity. On this record we wanted to embrace a kind of unbridled joy that inspired us when we first started making music. Making Superb showed us that when were more relaxed during the process, we get a whole different kind of record out of it.
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