Get your dancing sneakers sorted. Chris Lake and FISHER are in a marathon mood.
As previously reported, the superstar DJs will spin the wheels of steel on Saturday, May 10th for a special pop-up show.
Produced by TEG Live, that performance is now confirmed for Charles Moses Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park, where, for the first time in Australia, the besties will go back-to-back. “We’re going to do a long set. I think we’re doing four hours. We love playing together,” Lake told Rolling Stone AU/NZ from Melbourne on the eve of the show. “We wanted to do something that we could announce last minute and give something more than anyone expected.”
Lake, the Grammy Award-nominated producer, DJ, and founder of Black Book Records, is at the back-end of another national tour, this time in support of his forthcoming debut studio album, Chemistry.
Those dates included a headline set last weekend on the Gold Coast for FISHER’s Out 2 Lunch festival.
“We knew months ago that were going to be in the same place at the same time because of Out 2 Lunch. That’s where the idea came up,” he explains. “It was like, we should do it back-to-back at some point. We started working on finding a venue and here we are.”
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Lake’s national run got underway in Perth, stops by PICA Melbourne tonight, May 9, and wraps Saturday at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion. The pop-up stadium date was “an absolute nightmare” to set up, he admits. “Don’t get me wrong, we’re very happy with the venue. We like doing things outside and that comes with a lot of problems, obviously, with noise complaints and everything. It’s difficult to get things over the line without pissing people off.”
No pain, no gain.
Lake is still beaming from his experience performing last Sunday in south east Queensland, the culmination of FISHER’s vision to convert his hometown into a beach party. “I’m really, really happy for him,” he enthuses. “We’ve been great friends for a long time and there’s certain things that he said along the way, passing comments that you might not have put too much weight to. And one of them was how glowingly he talked where he grew up on the Gold Coast and how he’s wanted to do things there that had not been done before. This was years ago.”
Seeing the action unfold, watching the crowd and observing “the way they react to him was special. It’s nice to see for a friend. It was very impressive. The crowd there on the Gold Coast was unbelievably fun. Honestly, it was much better than I expected.”
Tickets for the FISHER B2B CHRIS LAKE Sydney pop-up show are now on sale to those who have registered on Friday, May 9th, at 12:30pm AEST. Register here.
Lake’s Chemistry is out July 11 via Black Book Records.
