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Paul Weller has played a surprise performance outside a small chip shop in West London. Check out footage of the moment below.

READ MORE: Paul Weller: “I’m trying different things as much as I can – time is of the essence, man”

The singer, songwriter and former frontman of The Jam made the appearance on Saturday afternoon, when he took to a stage at a street party in West London.

The event was held as a closing party for George’s Fish Bar, and saw Weller perform to locals in the area as part of a surprise set. During the intimate performance, he played a reggae version of his solo track ‘You Do Something To Me’, before then breaking out a rendition of the title track from his 1993 album ‘Wild Wood’.

It comes as Weller is embarking on his latest tour, and recently played a huge show at Edinburgh Castle.

Check out fan-captured footage of the performance below.

The surprise gig over the weekend took place after the Modfather released his 17th solo album, ’66’, back in May – the day before his 66th birthday.

He described it as an LP that would see him delve into topics including “faith, changing circumstances and the fractured realities of life in this turbulent age” but at its core, boast a message of positivity and wisdom.

Since then, he has also shared details of another tour across the UK, which will take place across the autumn.

Kicking off in Cheltenham on October 17, the stint also includes stop-offs in Brighton, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Llandudno, Liverpool and other locations throughout that month and into early November.

The tour is set to conclude with a performance at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London on November 8. Weller will be joined on the run by special guest opener Liam Bailey.

Before that though, he will play his first North American tour dates in seven years. Visit here for remaining US tickets, and here for UK tickets.

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Rex Orange County has shared details of live shows across the UK and North America, titled the ‘Finally: A Theatre Tour’. Find ticket details below.

READ MORE: Rex Orange County: “I want the music to sound and feel free – because I feel free”

Taking place later this year, the new run of tour dates will come in support of the vocalist’s forthcoming album ‘The Alexander Technique’ and see him embark on over 30 shows across the US and the UK.

The album will be the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Who Cares?’, and is set to arrive on September 6 via RCA. So far, ahead of the release, County has already dropped two singles, ‘Alexander’ and ‘Guitar Song’.

All live shows will be held in theatres, and the dates kick off in Chicago with two back-to-back nights at the Auditorium on October 4 and 5. From there, the schedule will see the musician take on various residencies across North America, including at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, Beacon Theatre in New York, the Straz Centre in Tampa and more.

The North American leg wraps up with two back-to-back performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver on November 25 and 26.

After the 30 US shows, he will head across the pond at the start of 2025 for the four remaining tour dates. These will all be held in London and take place at the Palladium between February 16 and February 19.

“For this tour, I’m going to play a select number of cities in carefully chosen theatre venues, but will be playing multiple nights within them,” he said. “Historically, with each album that I’ve released, I’ve always played bigger and bigger shows. But I wanted to do something different for this particular project because sonically the new songs lend themselves to being heard in a more intimate and traditional setting.

“These particular venues have allowed me to create a show with a theatrical stage set to further narrate the themes of the album alongside the music. I love playing live and I can’t wait to bring this new album to life across so many beautiful rooms and iconic stages.”

Tickets for all dates go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (July 26). Find a full list of tour dates below and visit here to buy tickets.

Rex Orange County’s ‘Finally: A Theatre Tour’ dates are:

OCTOBER
4 – Chicago, Illinois @ Auditorium
5 – Chicago, Illinois @ Auditorium
7 – Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall
8 – Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall
9 – Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall
11 – New York @ Beacon Theatre
12 – New York @ Beacon Theatre
13 – New York @ Beacon Theatre
18 – Boston, Massachusetts @ Boch Center Wang Theatre
19 – Boston, Massachusetts @ Boch Center Wang Theatre
23 – Atlanta, Georgia @ Cobb Energy Performing Arts
24 – Atlanta, Georgia @ Cobb Energy Performing Arts
26 – Tampa, Florida @ Straz Center
27 – Tampa, Florida @ Straz Center
29 – Austin, Texas @ Bass Concert Hall
30 – Austin, Texas @ Bass Concert Hall
 
NOVEMBER
3 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
4 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
5 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
6 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
8 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
9 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
10 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
11 – Los Angeles, California @ Orpheum Theatre
15 – Las Vegas, Nevada @ Fontainebleau Las Vegas
19 – Oakland, California @ Paramount Theatre
20 – Oakland, California @ Paramount Theatre
21 – Oakland, California @ Paramount Theatre
25 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
26 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre

FEBRUARY 2025
16 – London @ Palladium
17 – London @ Palladium
18 –London @ Palladium
19  – London @ Palladium

News of the US and UK tour dates come just weeks after Rex Orange County announced a tour of the Asia Pacific region, set to take place later this year.

Kicking off ahead of the North American shows, the singer-songwriter will launch the 2024 live shows with a fresh slate of tour dates in New Zealand, Australia and Asia. It starts on September 15 in Wellington, with a stop in Auckland the following day. Following New Zealand, Rex Orange County will perform five shows across Australia, from Adelaide to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

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Blueface seems to have caught a break in one of two probation violation cases that led to his arrest earlier this year; but he’s not out of the woods yet.

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In Hearts Wake have just exploded into their new era with the arrival of sixth studio LP, Incarnation. Not only does the record mark the Genesis of the Byron Bay metalcore heavyweights’ fresh chapter as a four-piece (following the departure of their long-time bassist and clean vocalist Kyle Erich), it also poetically forms a conceptual bookend to their beloved debut album, Divination.

Now, to toast the arrival of the LP and a forthcoming Australian tour in its honour (where fans will be able to bid one final live farewell to Kyle – dates down below), Music Feeds has enlisted IHW frontman Jake Taylor to run us through 5 little known facts about the making of Incarnation. From bumping into Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall in the middle of a community disaster relief effort, to recruiting Voldemort’s actual snake from the Harry Potter movie franchise for a film clip, to using cow jaw bones as percussion instruments, you can get the full lowdown, direct from Jake, down below.

In Hearts Wake – ‘The Flood (ǝɔᴉʇsnɾ)’ Ft. Winston McCall 

1. The Return of Winston McCall

‘The Flood (ǝɔᴉʇsnɾ)’ features Winston McCall from Parkway Drive. It’s his second feature on an In Hearts Wake song, he’d previously appeared on Divination, and this time he reprises his role for the sequel, Incarnation. But aside from that obvious justification, getting Winston on the track was really organic. The title of ‘The Flood (ǝɔᴉʇsnɾ)’ is from an event that happened here in the Northern Rivers. The land that I’m actually looking at right now where we live was underwater, and the town of Lismore, which is further down the river, went two stories underwater. 

My dad works in Lismore, he works as a carer, and he was in a house caring one night. And at the time it was like,” oh yeah, there might be a flood tonight, and  it might come over the road”. But then it just kept rising to the point where he had the cat, he had the lady in the house, they were all in the second story. Next minute, the water’s coming up the stairs. It was a slow rise, it happened over three or four hours. And then next minute, he jumps out of a second story window onto a mattress, and he’s floating down the Lismore River. I’ve laughed about it to be honest, it sounds unreal that it could’ve happened.

During the cleanup that followed, I was out there with In Hearts Wake, and we were doing cleanups, helping out, just basically stripping houses because all the stuff was completely gone and the government at the time wasn’t there to help. So it was a community- led thing. While I was there, I bumped into Winston on the street while he was doing supply runs, and we had a minute of just saying that we just couldn’t believe what we were seeing. But the flip-side was how incredible it was that this was a completely people- and community-run clean up. It was all the people, there was no government involved. And it was amazing at how it was functioning and working, fully volunteer-based.

When we wrote a song called ‘The Flood’, I never thought, “oh, Winston’s going to be on this song”. We’d written the song about the flood, and it felt really important to us. And then we sort of coloured in the missing pieces and realised Winston’s voice would go well here. I called Winston. And Winston being Winston, he doesn’t just say yes, he’s very much, “thanks and I’m honoured. Send it to me first, and if I’m meant to be on it, I’ll let you know”. 

I sent him the link, and the song goes for a bit over three minutes. It hadn’t been a minute after I sent it, and he just texted me, “yeah, I’m in”. I was really honoured that he felt a true calling to be on the song rather than just feeling like he should do it. 

Winston came into the studio about a week later and we workshopped the song, he was in there playing in the sandpit for hours. We were trying things, and it was probably the best and most enjoyable collaboration I’ve ever been a part of. And that then followed into us doing a film clip together. He was very generous with his time and just a really good guy to work with.

It feels really good when anyone is genuinely wanting to be part of a piece of art that speaks to them rather than feeling like they should. And that’s what you want all the time. You never want anyone to feel like they should or that they “have” to do something. It’s always going to be like,”yep, I’m in, this is right”.

When Winston was on the set for the music video, someone asked him, “how many film clips have you done with other bands?”. And he’s like, “this is the first I’ve actually ever done without Parkway”. And it was like, “oh, cool. Well this is the perfect!”. It felt like a real honouring of the story that we were telling for him to actually do that. Not that he’s some big mythic guy, but he’s very time-poor in the sense of everything he has going on. And we filmed in an old flooded house for a lot of those scenes, so it was all very real and in keeping with what the song is about.

2. The Michigan Massive

Towards the end of being in the studio for Incarnation, we didn’t actually know the exact 11 tracks for the album. We had a couple of ideas for the back end of the album, but they weren’t fully fleshed out as to what Tarot card they might be part of. 

At the time, we had this opportunity where there was a show happening down the road from where we were recording, which happened to have at least two to three of Michigan’s most notable bands playing at the venue. They invited us to come along, and before the gig we had this conversation together, like, “what if we got all the Michigan bands that we know, not just because they’ve been so kind to us, but what if we really amplified those artists because they’re like family at this point?”. And then it became: “if we did it, how would we get them all in the same room?”. Because as we all know with artists, it’s like herding cats. You can’t get ’em together. But we got everyone over that night after the show, you’ve got the dudes from King 810, the dudes from Heartsick and For The Fallen Dreams. There were some other bands that were just around, I think it was 20 or 30 people, it was chaos. We had the music playing on loop, and it was like, “okay, we’re writing parts. Anything you get, if you got it, you walk into the booth and you just track it. Don’t overthink it”. And this is at like two in the morning, trying to speed-write, walking into that room and laying stuff down. What we heard the next day was an absolute mess; but there were some core ideas which we were able to go, “that’s good, that’s good, that’s shit, that’s shit” and so on. And then we got those core ideas and we went, “all right, Chad [Ruhlig], come back” and so on. We basically got people back in to build their part in their own time. And thus we created this song called ‘Michigama (uɐᴉɔᴉƃɐɯ ǝɥʇ)’, which is an ode to the strength and resilience of people who fight through the bitterest winter to make music and survive. 

Those people on that track literally rented us their cars. Don, who’s at the very end of the track, he’s the father-in-law of Josh [Schroeder], who we recorded with. Don put us up in his basement for all five recording sessions. He’s like 70-something and he’s the sweetest man. So we’ve got everyone on there! David [Gunn] was on there too because he’s been taking us out to dinners being like, “no, you guys are guests. I’m taking you out to dinner. You need a good meal!”. It’s like, “fuck, we’re putting you on the song, dude”. So that’s ‘Michigama’, which roughly translates to the “great lake”.

3. In-House Halo

We referenced “Killing Frenzy” from Halo on Divination, and “Killionaire” appeared somewhere else. Now the funny thing is: from what I understand, you can’t just go and sample something directly and put it in your song because that’s copyright infringement unless you get written permission. So we’ve had someone do voice overs for these parts that reference Halo – and that person is Josh Schroeder, who we’ve recorded our albums with. He’s got a deep voice. While we were recording Incarnation, Josh gets in the vocal booth and says [mimicking Halo voiceover] “Slayer”. And you’ll hear it in a song called ‘Tyrant (ɹoɹǝdɯǝ ǝɥʇ)’. 

When we first heard ‘Tyrant’, there’s a video we posted of Josh doing the voice over. And I remember playing it back and we were actually all going crazy at this point, but we all actually started moshing in the studio, which we never do to our own music. It sounds pretty cringe, but it was just fun and it just scratches an itch. So for those who don’t know, that’s the man who we’ve recorded the album with. That’s Josh’s voice!

4. Harry Potter & The Snake Heartbeat

There’s a track already out called ‘Orphan (lᴉʌǝp ǝɥʇ)’, it’s one of the album’s singles. When we were originally writing ‘Orphan’, it was pure chaos instrumentally. Things were going everywhere and it was hard to make sense of it; but it had a feeling. And that feeling was basically psychosis, it’s just psychotic in nature. From my experience, without getting too much into politics, let’s look at what’s happening across the world with who is currently going head-to-head. I’m not picking sides, but it’s just one big psychotic event of reality TV that you couldn’t script. We’re all watching, biting our nails on the edge of our seats, and it feels like the whole system is kind of eating its own tail. We’ve got a felon, and they’re both elderly, but they’re going head-to-head to be run the most powerful country in the world in this psychotic nature.

“The snake that eats its own tail” really leant into: what does that systemic serpent look like in a song and how can we bring it to life energetically? So I had this idea, I’ve heard it before on the internet, and it was a snake’s heartbeat. The sound of a snake’s heartbeat has got a really different cadence, it sounds like it’s almost in the ocean. So on ‘Orphan’, we sampled a snake’s heartbeat and put it at the start and the end to give you this feeling of the psychotic adrenaline that’s coming on. And throughout the song, there’s constant references to the snake, “bit by the fangs, the serpents game in a world that’s so deranged”. 

When it came time for the film clip, naturally it was like, “hey, we need a snake who’s available in Brisbane”. We put a post out to get a snake in. And this guy writes back saying, “yeah, I’m a reptile wrangler, I’ve got a snake here. Here’s the resume”. We look at the resume and the snake literally did the motion capture in the Harry Potter films for Voldemort’s snake Nagini. There I am on set, and she’s a 40-year-old python, and the weight of her…she was so heavy, she’s massive. And I got to do all of these scenes just being that psychotic devil. I just emulated that with this beautiful snake. The snake thing coming full circle was just really cool and it got to the core of that song.

5. Hollow (Actual) Bone

Lastly, we recorded the sound of actual bones on ‘Hollow Bone (plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ)’. The meaning behind ‘Hollow Bone (plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ)’ is: if you want to be effective at something in life, there’s this saying that it’s not about you, it has to be about something in service. If your ego is involved, if you’re doing it for personal gain or desire – it’s not going to happen in the right way. It’ll happen in a different way where it’s tyrannical and unbalanced and it doesn’t serve anyone. So being a hollow bone is essentially: you have to be fully in service where there’s no marrow, so to speak. The marrow is the energy of service that comes through where you are that strong bridge for the energy to take place. It doesn’t have to get spiritual or be about religion, because it’s outside of that. When we were taking on this idea of not having Kyle [Erich] and that we had to deliver something that felt like it was the spirit of the band that was beyond us, there was a desire to also want to create music for fans. And to not necessarily keep living our dream, but be living the dream of what the band was about, which is always being in service, not just to fans but to the earth trying to make a difference. 

We sort of stepped into that place and wrote this song, and a lot of the bone elements started to take shape. We’ve seen kegs being hit by Slipknot – but what about the percussion of actual bones? That conversation was met with me walking on the land where I am right now, and I found these cow jawbones. We don’t have cattle here, they must’ve been from 50+ years ago. So we got those actual bones, and we were in the studio when we’re writing the song and we sampled those bones being hit. And we were able to make different instruments out of them by pitching them high and low. We’ve got a whole section in the song where we’re playing those bones. And they’re not Kyle’s bones, someone laughed about that and made a joke, the death of a member; but there was definitely a transformation of the death of something to bring on something new.

In Hearts Wake 2024 Australian Tour Dates

Supported by Paleface Swiss (Switzerland), King 810 (USA) & Gravemind

Thursday, 5th September 2024 – King Street Bandroom, Newcastle 18+

Friday, 6th September 2024 – Liberty Hall, Sydney 18+

Saturday, 7th September 2024 – The Tivoli, Brisbane 18+

Thursday, 12th September 2024 – The Forum, Melbourne 18+

Friday, 13th September 2024 – The Gov, Adelaide 18+

Saturday, 14th September 2024 – Magnet House, Perth 18+

Tickets on sale now via In Hearts Wake

Further Reading

In Hearts Wake Announce New Album ‘Incarnation’, A Conceptual Sequel To Their ‘Divination’ LP

In Hearts Wake Part Ways With Clean Vocalist Kyle Erich & Announce Final Tour Together

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Last Saturday afternoon (July 20), amongst a rainy day and a crowd of footy fans, a buzzing group waited in anticipation at Melbourne’s Federation Square, eager to hop on a bus to Nando’s’ first-ever Chicken Shop Sessions event in Australia.

A short ride later, they were at Nando’s Fitzroy on Smith Street, but in place of tables and sauce bottles were spotlights, pale ales and an intimate party atmosphere soon to showcase some of Australia and New Zealand’s hottest emerging artists – and even hotter chicken. It felt very timely, given the event was hosted on what would have been the weekend of Splendour In The Grass (if this year’s festival wasn’t cancelled back in March); a rep for Nando’s confirmed they made sure to invite guests who had been ticketholders for Splendour.

“From Ed Sheeran to Post Malone and everyone in-between, Nando’s has a long history of supporting artists across the music industry,” said Tom Blackburn, Nando’s Head of Brand & Marketing for the ANZ market. “The Chicken Shop Sessions are all about giving emerging artists the opportunity to take centre stage in the wake of major festival cancellations and the mass closure of live music venues.”

Nando’s has a long history in helping people express themselves musically. 2018 saw the launch of a free-to-use music studio under the Nando’s branch in Frith Street, Soho. Three years later, Johannesburg’s Constitutional Hill was similarly morphed into creative recording hub Flame Studios. “Creativity and music have always been a huge part of the brand globally,” said Blackburn.

UNIFIED Music Group were collaborators in the organisation of last weekend’s event. “It was a bit of a combined effort on this one, and we came together to program an event that made sense for the brand and the intention of the night,” said Michelle Rose, UNIFIED’s Head of Staff. “It also helped that a lot of the artists already work with Nando’s.”

“We were really excited when we heard that the client was Nando’s because we know that they really love the industry. Artists have lived off the back of the generosity of Nando’s for a long time.”

The first Chicken Shop Sessions was an intimate snapshot of the emerging music scene in Australia and New Zealand, capturing a diverse array of artists and an equally varied selection of genres, ranging from singer-songwriter to pop R&B, all the way to reggae-tinged rock over the course of the event.

Blending it all seamlessly was local DJ Nina Las Vegas, who kept the vibe flowing with house edits and Charli xcx cuts as platters of PERi-PERi tenders, chips and Portuguese tarts made their way around the room.

“It was really fun – I think it worked really well because we had all these different acts,” she said at night’s end. “People don’t realise how ingrained Nando’s already are with music. Everyone in the music community knows that if you do a video shoot or have a band thing – because there’s not a lot of money in music right now for emerging acts, we can go to Nando’s with what we’re doing and they’ll send a [meal] voucher.”

“Working with [Nando’s] was great,” said Melbourne singer-songwriter ISHAN, who opened the night. “It was almost like I didn’t work with them, they just kind of gave me a stage, and they brought the people and said, ‘Do your thing’. In that sense, they were brilliant.”

And so was ISHAN – genuine and humble, the 20-year-old singer played an all-acoustic set that showed off his knack for instantly connecting melodies and authentic songwriting. Opting to play without his typical loop pedal, the crowd were more than happy to be his percussion at request for the songs that called for it.

“That’s kind of how I started,” he said. “Whenever I write a song, it’s all just strung on the acoustic guitar like I’ve played today. That would have been what it was like.”

ISHAN’s time spent busking – three-to-four times a week on Melbourne’s Bourke Street – has been paying off big this year, supercharged by a clip of My Mouth (la la la) going viral on TikTok; it’s boosted his socials to over 18 million views and counting.

Multi-genre rapper/producer CHAII came next, bringing danceable energy with slick beats and cruisy R&B synths. The Persian-NZ performer boasted a friendly and fun set, intertwined with some surprising Nando’s lore about her family’s business: “We used to make the chickens on the table numbers. That’s my Nando’s backstory.”

CHAII is on the upswing; her music has found its way to advertisements, game soundtracks and television, in no small part thanks to her wide-reaching creative vision. Her variety showed onstage; a set highlight was Eshah, sung in Parsi and paired with dynamic electronic production.

Coterie headlined the night with smooth reggae vibes. Cheeky with the occasional friendly go at the crowd, the four brothers partied on the Nando’s stage with an on-the-fly setlist, closing out on laidback hit Cool it down. The group are in the midst of a huge year, having recently been announced as openers for Tones And I’s upcoming Australian tour this August.

Adding further to the night was a collaborative real-time art installation courtesy of multi-disciplinary queer artist La Vanesso.

Nando’s Chicken Shop Sessions are set to offer exciting opportunities for emerging musicians and fans alike across Australia and New Zealand, with more events set to be announced in the near future. So begs the question: Where would you want to see the next Chicken Shop Session? And who would you love to see perform at it?

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In the early hours of the morning today (July 22), current US President Joe Biden announced he would be stepping down from the 2024 Presidential election, severing his bid for reelection this November. Expectedly so, the internet has erupted with an onslaught of scorching hot takes about the news – and of course, some of the world’s biggest musical artists have weighed in.

In a formal statement posted just after 3:45am AEST, Biden wrote: “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as [the US] President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as the President for the remainder of my term.”

Just 30 minutes afterwards, Cher spoke up with some conflicted feelings about the upcoming election – though she seemed to have misread Biden’s statement, as she opined on Twitter that she “[doesn’t] believe the Democrats can win the Presidency” with Biden as the party’s frontrunner. “I believe it’s time [to] pass the baton,” she said, imploring the Democratic party to “think way outside the box”.

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In a follow-up tweet, Cher gave the opinion that a new Democratic frontrunner would be “the only chance for [the US] to remain [a] democracy”. She notably campaigned for Biden in 2020, even going so far as releasing a song called Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe.

Another musical icon from the same era, Barbra Streisand, praised Biden as “a man who accomplished significant achievements in his [four-year] term”, saying to her audience that people “should be grateful for his upholding of our democracy”.

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In terms of younger artists speaking out, Lizzo noted in an Instagram post that “we are truly living in unprecedented times”, while Finneas said he has “an enormous amount of respect” for Biden as “a person putting the people before themselves and their pride”.

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Meanwhile, Cardi B tweeted in support of Kamala Harris – the current US Vice President and Biden’s (now former) running mate in his bid for reelection – taking over as the Democratic frontrunner; Harris herself confirmed that she fully intends “to earn and win this nomination”.

Ariana Grande also vouched her support for Harris by sharing a post of endorsement (originating from Biden himself) to her Instagram Story, while Charli xcx quipped on Twitter that “Kamala IS brat” (referencing the artist’s just-released album Brat). Shortly thereafter, Harris followed Charli on Instagram.

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Surprisingly, noted Trump fanatic Jason Aldean hasn’t piped up about the news just yet. We have no doubts he’ll have a lot to say when he inevitably does.

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There’s no show quite like a Pub Choir show. You walk in as a punter and walk out as a performer.

Pub Choir shows include packed-out rooms singing classics like Africa by Toto, Backstreet Boys’ I Want It That Way, the Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love, Coldplay’s Yellow, The Winner Takes It All by ABBA and heaps more. But what happens when a band they’ve covered happens to see a video from a Pub Choir concert? Will they get it?

Over the weekend, Radiohead shared Pub Choir’s rendition of their Pablo Honey classic, Creep, performed at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane in 2022. Sharing the video on their Instagram Stories, the British rockers described the performance as “wholesomeness”.

Reacting to the band’s Instagram Story, Pub Choir wrote on social media: “Radiohead. As in, actual Radiohead.

“THE Radiohead saw Pub Choir’s cover of Creep and shared it online calling it ‘Friday Wholesomeness’. Anyway, Astrid [Jorgensen, founder and director of Pub Choir] will never recover from this excitement!!!!!! Were you there? Brisbane never misses ? Ahhhh!!!!”

In a follow-up post, Pub Choir mentioned their forthcoming tour dates and added, “Radiohead liked our rendition of Creep ? were you there? Another night of Brisbane magic!!!”

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Pub Choir will perform across Australia and New Zealand on their Honest Feedback tour in October and November. Dates in Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Sydney, Gold Coast, and Melbourne have already sold out. You can find the remaining tickets to the tour here.

Last month, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announced his first-ever solo tour dates in Australia and New Zealand, where he’ll bring a new solo show packed with versions of songs from his “recent and not so recent past”.

Yorke’s Everything tour begins in New Zealand (Wednesday, 23 and Friday, 25 October) before he heads to Australia for two shows at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl (Tuesday, 29, and Wednesday, 30 October), and the Sydney Opera House Forecourt (Friday, 1, and Saturday, 2 November).

From there, he’ll head to Singapore and Japan and wrap up the tour in Kyoto on Tuesday, 26 November. The Sydney shows and the second Melbourne show are sold out.

Radiohead last visited Australia in November 2012.

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