Just ahead of embarking on their vibrant summer festival tour, Sofi Tukker have announced a fall headline tour of North American and Europe, the R.I.P. Shame World Tour. Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern are on “a mission to kill shame one loose dance party at a time,” and are planning an entirely new show that will follow the release of a new body of work this fall. Australian dance outfit Haiku Hands and Femme House DJ/producer LP Giobbi will be supporting all North American dates.
Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday at 10AM local, but fans in North American can sign up now for pre-sale first access at www.sofitukker.com/tour.
Where past tours have raised tens of thousands of dollars for Planned Parenthood and the Trevor Project, for the R.I.P. Shame World Tour the duo have partnered once again with PLUS1 with their commitment that $1 from every ticket sold goes to social impact. This tour, these funds will go to organizations that support mental health initiatives, bringing dignity, equity, and access to communities who need it. For more information please visit www.plus1.org. Sofi Tukker are also continuing their partnership with Headcount to register voters at the US shows.
In celebration of the tour announcement, the group has also shared the Uproot Andy remix of their collaboration with Bomba Estereo “Playa Grande”. The Brooklyn DJ/Producer, known for helping pioneer the Global Bass movement with his work and legendary NYC party “Que Bajo?!”, re-imagines the lush dreamscape of the original as a fluid Afro-Caribbean rhythm that waxes and wanes around Sophie & Li’s invitation to surrender to dance with them. Listen to it now below.
“Playa Grande” is sung in three different languages – English, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as a little Spanglish and Portuñol. Sophie and Li from Bomba Estéreo dance across the verses and make the chorus a mission statement, “Vamos a Bailar! Bailar! Bailar!”. Bomba Estéreo joined SOFI TUKKER onstage at Coachella to perform the song live and SOFI TUKKER will be taking “Playa Grande” on the road for their shows this fall.
The music video sees SOFI TUKKER teaming up once more with Mac Boucher, the creative mind behind the “Best Friend,” “Batshit,” and “Fuck They” music videos. For the clip, SOFI TUKKER traveled to Costeño Beach in Santa Marta, located next to the Tayrona Park, a Natural Reserve Park in Colombia where the Andes end at the sea. It is the highest mountain in the world next to the ocean. The Tayronas (indigenous population) call the park, ‘The World’s Lung’. The video is an ode to the earth, specifically to the sacred land that Li from Bomba Estéreo lives on. Watch it here.
Tour Dates:
7/4: Zamardi, Hungary @ Balaton Sound Festival
7/5: Petrovaradin, Serbia @ Exit Festival
7/5-7/7: Beuningen, Netherlands @ Down The Rabbit Hole Festival
7/10: Frankfurt, Germany @ Gibson
7/11: Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s Neue Welt
7/11-13: Trenčín, Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival
7/19: Cluj-Napoca, Romania @ Electric Castle
7/22: Boom, Belgium @ Tomorrowland
8/1: Toronto, CA @ Animal Talk at Coda ( DJ set)
8/3: Montreal, Canada @ Osheaga
8/3: Montreal, Canada @ Animal Talk at L’Astral (DJ set)
8/17: Tokyo, Japan @ Summer Sonic Festival
8/18: Osaka, Japan @ Summer Sonic Festival
8/24: Chicago, IL @ Mamby on the Beach Festival
8/31: Sedalia, CO @ Polo Fest
9/1: Montauk, NY @ Splash House (DJ set)
9/8: Las Vegas, NV @ Soak (DJ set)
North American Headline Tour
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10/2: Calgary, AB @ The Palace
10/4: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
10/6: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
10/7: Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
10/9: Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
10/10: Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall
10/13: Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
10/15: Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
10/16: Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
10/17: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
10/19: New Orleans, LA @ The Joy Theater
10/21: Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
10/23: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/24: Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall
11/16: Mexico City, MX @ Corona Capital
European Headline Tour
11/20: Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
11/22: Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
11/23: London, UK @ Electric Brixton
11/26: Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/27: Rotterdam, NL @ Maassilo
111/28: Paris, FR @ Elysee Montmartre
12/1: Hamburg, DE @ Markthalle
12/2: Cologne, DE @ Carlswerk
12/3: Munich, DE @ Technikum
12/5: Vienna, AT @ Arena Wien
12/6: Bern, Switzerland @ Bierhubeli
12/9: Zurich, CH @ Harterei Club
12/10: Brussels, BE @ Botanique Orangerie