The Teskey Brothers Unleash ‘Live at the Hammersmith Apollo’ – New Album Drops July 11
The Teskey Brothers announce 'Live at the Hammersmith Apollo,' a raw, analog-recorded live album capturing three sold-out nights of soul, blues, and Otis Redding magic—featuring a powerful new version of “Try A Little Tenderness.”
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Following three triumphant sold-out shows at London’s iconic Hammersmith Apollo last year, The Teskey Brothers have announced the release of their new album Live At The Hammersmith Apollo – out Friday July 11 via Glassnote Records, and available to pre-order now. The live album is an immersive extension of the band’s rich and beloved catalogue, featuring songs from their #1 ARIA Charting third album, The Winding Way, a powerful cover of Otis Redding’s ‘Try A Little Tenderness’ (out everywhere today) and for the first time on vinyl/CD, one of the band’s early hits, ‘Forever You and Me’ (150m+ streams).
“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
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 Apollo is available to pre-order now on limited edition red & white marble vinyl, CD & digital services.
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
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