12/22THE ARISTOCRATS ANNOUNCE MORE SHOWS IN ASIA FOR THE “DEFROST” TOUR IN FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023
We are humbled and grateful to be able to play our unique blend of Aristocratic music for audiences across Asia once again! From a place we know well like Japan, to our first ever shows in Indonesia and Singapore, to a second trip across India, as well as return visits to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam, it’s amazing that even with music as wild and experimental as ours, the language of music is universal. We can’t wait!
Ticket links for these new shows will become available soon, but you can still find all the links for Japan and Singapore on our website HERE.
12/16THE ARISTOCRATS ANNOUNCE MORE EUROPEAN DATES FOR THEIR “DEFROST” TOUR IN OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2023
We promised there would be many more shows for Europe after we announced our limited run for June 2023, and we’re ready to deliver with weeks of Aristocratic shows across the continent in October and November – with even more to be announced soon. Europe will always be special for us, and we look forward to reconnecting with so many of our fans there. Like we said before, it’s been too long!
Full details for all shows, including ticket links as they become available, can be found on our website HERE.
11/03THE ARISTOCRATS announce their FIRST EVER live concert in Singapore!
We are so excited to make our debut at the Gateway Theatre in Singapore on Monday February 13th 2023, and we hope you’re all ready for some Aristocratic musical mayhem!
Tickets are available (from Mon Nov 7) here, and stay tuned for more Aristocrats tour dates to be announced in the near future!
10/30THE ARISTOCRATS RETURN TO JAPAN IN FEBRUARY 2023!
The Aristocrats are excited to announce a February 2023 return to Japan, for their first live shows there since 2016. Japanese audiences starved for some trademark Aristocratic musical mayhem will be treated to a debut of select new material not yet released on any album, as well as a carefully curated collection of fan favorites and deep cuts.
The band had this to say: “Our very first tour anywhere was in Japan eleven years ago, and we’ve loved coming back ever since. So we couldn’t be more excited to bring the DEFROST Tour to Japan and play for our wonderful fans there once again!”
Tickets are available (from Sun Nov 13) here. Stay tuned for more Aristocrats Asia tour dates to be announced in the near future!
10/07New video of Primuz Chamber Orchestra tracking “Last Orders” now online!
Check out this amazing video of the Primuz Chamber Orchestra tracking “Last Orders”. This is an alternate mix that really features the orchestra arrangement of Wojtek Lemański and all of the beautiful harmonic elements that the Primuz brought to the table.
“The Aristocrats With Primuz Chamber Orchestra” is available on CD, Vinyl and Digital Download from our various stores, including Bandcamp and Digger’s Factory. Find all the links here: https://linktr.ee/aristocratsband
9/11The DEFROST Tour’s triumphant finale!
BB here, speaking for the band. The last three shows of the tour – Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco – were simply amazing. Each city blew away its previous attendance record, one after the other. Los Angeles set a new USA crowd record for us…which lasted exactly 24 hours until San Francisco broke it *again*. We are beyond grateful – California, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
But that’s only half the story. There were a series of unforeseen practical and logistical obstacles in the final week of the tour – climaxing in the full closure of the main freeway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the night between those two shows – that required an absolutely HEROIC effort on the part of the crew in order for the shows to happen at all. They rose to the occasion, and made it possible for us to finish the North American leg of the DEFROST tour in grand fashion.
For those who have been following this tour from the beginning, you know that it has been an unusually dramatic affair. The issue with Guthrie’s visa alone almost killed the whole thing before it even started, and there was plenty more. Somehow, miraculously, it all worked out, and I know I speak for the band when I say THANK YOU to everyone on our small but mighty AristoTeam for persevering, and THANK YOU to all of the fans across North America who came out to make our first tour in almost three years such an incredible success.
We want to give special thanks to Congressman Tom Malinowski and his legislative liaison Michael McCurry for their invaluable assistance with the visa issue; Chris Kies and Shawn Hammond from Premier Guitar for their special attention in making the latest Rig Rundown video; and the one and only Rick Beato for shining his uniquely bright spotlight on Guthrie and The Aristocrats at just the right moment. We’re going back into the freezer now, but stay tuned for news about international touring in 2023…and our next studio album.
Once again, on behalf of Marco and Guthrie and myself: T h a n k y o u.
P.S. We were so exhausted at the end of the tour that we forgot to take a band “end of tour” picture! So here’s a shot of the massive crowd from San Francisco instead :)
9/05THE ARISTOCRATS ANNOUNCE UK/EUROPE DATES FOR THE “DEFROST” TOUR IN JUNE 2023
It’s been far too long since our last shows in the UK and Europe, some of which were documented in our live album ‘FREEZE! Live In Europe 2020’ just before the big chill on live shows. So now it’s time for the DEFROST tour to bring us back, and we can’t wait to finally play shows again for our fans who have been waiting patiently for Aristocrats concerts to return!
This first batch of June 2023 dates will be our only shows in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal, Israel and Bulgaria on this tour, but more European dates in additional countries will be announced in the coming months. Full details for all shows, including ticket links as they become available, can be found on our website HERE.
