“To go from playing to 30 people at The Slaughtered Lamb, to three nights at the Apollo, it’s quite a special thing. This live record, for us, really collects that experience and bottles it up in one little neat package. There’s something about historical venues like Apollo where so much good energy somehow gets captured in the walls. And it’s a bit hard to describe, the great mystery of these things, but that’s why we went back there for three nights, hit record and tried to capture that feeling.” – Sam Teskey
“The way Otis Redding played Try A Little Tenderness was a very special thing. We’re very honoured to just try and do our little way of playing it too.” – Sam Teskey
Live At The Hammersmith Apollo will be released following their headline London, Alexandra Palace show to 10,000+ fans (largest to date) on Thursday July 10.
In keeping with the band’s love for analogue, Live At The Hammersmith Apollo was recorded entirely to tape, just as live albums by Bruce Springsteen (’75), David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust ’73) and countless others would have been recorded in the same room. London-based producer/engineer Declan Gaffney was tapped to handle the technical side, having previously engineered and mixed live albums for U2 and The Rolling Stones. Gaffney set up a makeshift studio behind the stage curtain where the tape rolled through a StuderA80 borrowed from the famous Metropolis Studios just down the road. Nostalgia aside, the record is above all an ode to the brothers’ famed chemistry and dynamics onstage, bolstered by band members Olaf Scott (keys), Fabian Hunter (bass), Audrey Powne (trumpet), Nick Lawrence (drums) and Lily Shaw (sax), who have all been touring with The Teskey Brothers since 2023.
Live At The Hammersmith Apollo is The Teskey Brothers’ sixth album. Most recent release The Winding Way debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart, won Best Blues & Roots Album at the 2023 ARIA Awards and Best Record of 2023 at the Rolling Stone Awards. Following its release, the band played sold-out shows across the world and a prime set on The Other Stage (3pm Sunday) at Glastonbury in 2023. The Winding Way was the highly anticipated follow-up to Run Home Slow – a colossal success by anyone’s standards, reaching #2 on the ARIA charts, winning 3 ARIA Awards and saw Sam Teskey earn a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album – all watering the grass for sold-out headline tours across the world. More significantly, Run Home Slow fulfilled the promise of their highly acclaimed debut record, 2017’s Half Mile Harvest, cementing The Teskey Brothers as a classy modern band with an appetite for classic soul and R&B music.
Live At The Hammersmith is available to pre-order now on limited edition red & white marble vinyl, CD & digital services.
2025 EU/UK Tour Dates:
Jun 20 Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
Jun 21 Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland
Jun 22 Huysmanshoeve, Eeklo, Belgium
Jun 26 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, UK
Jun 29 The Piece Hall, Halifax, UK
Jun 30 Summer Series at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Jul 1 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jul 5 Summerstage at Stadspark Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Jul 6 Royal Park Live at Paleis Soestdijk, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jul 10 – 12 Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain
Jul 10 – 12 NOS Alive, Lisbon, Portugal
Jul 10 Alexandra Palace Park, London, England
The Teskey Brothers – Live At The Hammersmith Apollo
Out Friday July 11 via DECCA
DIGITAL & CD TRACKLIST
Man Of The Universe
Oceans Of Emotions
Take My Heart
London Bridge
Carry Me Home
Paint My Heart
What Will Be
Try A Little Tenderness
Forever You And Me
I’m Leaving
VINYL TRACKLIST
Side A
Man Of The Universe
Oceans Of Emotions
Take My Heart
London Bridge
Carry Me Home
Side B
What Will Be
Forever You And Me
I’m Leaving
All physical copies of the live album include over 1000 fan-submitted names of those who were there during the recording at The Hammersmith Apollo in 2024.
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