The band recorded Superb with producer Henry Jenkins, who has worked with the band on all of their albums to date, at The College Of Knowledge – a Coburg space co-run by Stuckey. The guitarist ...

“We’ve got plenty of first-press records. Too many, actually,” Lachlan Stuckey, of Melbourne jazz-funk band Surprise Chef, admits. The five-piece instrumentalists are doing what they do best, thumbing ...

Fresh from a sellout tour of North America, Surprise Chef are one of the headline acts at this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival. But please don’t call them a jazz band. “Cinematic soul” is ...

From little things, instrumental juggernauts grow. Hailing from just outside of Melbourne, Australia, the members of Surprise Chef first gathered in 2017 with the modest aim to tape a couple of ...