The Teskey Brothers to join the Hammersmith live album alumni in July

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 11th, and available to pre-order now. The live album is an immersive extension of the band’s rich back catalogue, featuring songs from their third album, “The Winding Way“, a cover of Otis Redding’s ‘Try A Little Tenderness‘ and for the first time on vinyl/CD, one of the band’s early hits, ‘Forever You and Me’.

Sam Teskey comments: “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. 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.”

The album will be released following their headline London, Alexandra Palace show on Thursday, July 10th. In keeping with the band’s love for analogue, it 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’ 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 boys since 2023.

This album will be The Teskey Brothers’ sixth. Their most recent release, “The Winding Way”, debuted at number one on the ARIA Chart and 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 at Glastonbury in 2023.

Tickets for the tour are available from this link:

“Live At The Hammersmith Apollo” Tracklist: