presented by Porch Records,
Astral People & Handsome Tours.

on Kaurna Country.

we bring to you a real special one.

EZRA COLLECTIVE

at a dream space,

the 1950's ballroom,
The Burnside Ballroom.
the most breathtaking space you ever did see.

SUPPORTS TO BE ANNOUNCED

doors from 7pm

headlining this majestic show
is the one and only, UK's - EZRA COLLECTIVE

celebrating the release of their album, Where I'm Meant To Be,
They're coming all the way down to Sunny Australia,
big festivals & big venues across the country,
and naturally, to a ballroom in Adelaide, on Kaurna Country. Let's go.

Ezra Collective’s new era, a venture in discovered maturity and raised stakes, will be defined by the anticipated second album. Where I’m Meant To Be is a thumping celebration of life, an affirming elevation in the Ezra Collective’s winding hybrid sound and refined collective character. The songs marry cool confidence with bright energy. Full of call-and-response conversations between their ensemble parts, a natural product of years improvising together on-stage, the album - which also features Sampa The Great, Kojey Radical, Emile Sande and Nao - will light up sweaty dance floors and soundtrack summer dinners in equal measure.

The group - consisting of Femi (who also drums for Gorillaz) as drummer and bandleader, Joe Armon-Jones on keys, James Mollison on saxophone, Ife Ogunjobi on trumpet, and Femi’s younger brother TJ on bass guitar - originally came together in 2012 as teenagers at the youth band of Tomorrow’s Warriors, a music education initiative at the South Bank Centre in London. They have since shot forward to become architects of a new phase in their city’s musical journey, a hybrid time in which Black genres - jazz, grime, afrobeat and more - can dovetail and harmonize fluidly, at new, forever rising levels.

With sold-out spring and summer shows and long-awaited big label support from Partisan Records, ambition and excitement are running at an all-time high. Ezra Collective is back, bigger and better and bolder than ever before.

This will be SPECIAL.

any questions, thoughts, feelings,
- drop us a line on
sharni@porchrecords.com.au

xo