Australian duo Skegss have announced a UK headline for spring 2025 in support of their brilliant new album “Pacific Highway Music” which is out now via Loma Vista Recordings. Recent cover stars of Upset magazine, their album has been called “music for long drives with a home-coming, summer feel” by Kerrang! and Far Out said “To put it simply, this is proper music at its most unadulterated, and should be enjoyed as such.” Come and see Skegss live, in 2025. Skegss UK headline tour dates: 22nd April 2025 – Papillon Southampton, United Kingdom
23rd April 2025 – Chalk Brighton, United Kingdom
25th April 2025 – XOYO Birmingham, United Kingdom
26th April 2025 – Academy 2 Manchester, United Kingdom
27th April 2025 – SWG3 Glasgow, United Kingdom
29th April 2025 – Project House Leeds, United Kingdom
1st May 2025 – Trinity Centre Bristol, United Kingdom
2nd May 2025 – Electric Brixton London, United Kingdom Tickets on sale now HERE The band recently released their new single “High Beaming,” a breezy and bouncy, yet tender tribute to the ones who keep us going when the world gets overwhelming. Of the song, vocalist/guitarist Ben Reed and drummer Jonny Lani explain: “this ones for someone that’s always somewhat positive in the worst times – It’s a strong survival trait.” “High Beaming” is out now alongside a video featuring clips of the globe-trotting band’s recent travels, which included: a packed, rowdy LA in-store show at Mollusk Surf Shop; an afterparty performance at Indonesia’s Padang Padang Surf Competition; a stop at France’s Quicksilver Festival; and a London album launch show, partnered with Rough Trade and Signature Brew, that saw Reed behind the bar serving ‘Knock Off Lager’ to a crowd of eager fans. Watch the video for “High Beaming” HERE or by clicking the image below. 
The track is the third single from Skegss’ from the new album Pacific Highway Music, out now, following “Out Of My Head” and “Spaceman.” Produced by Paul Butler (Devendra Banhart, Michael Kiwanuka, St. Paul & the Broken Bones), the album is now available for HERE. Pacific Highway Music was released in seven different vinyl variants, including a Fuzz Coffee collaboration bundle featuring ‘Pacific Highway Music’ coffee, and an Urban Outfitters exclusive variant. Pacific Highway Music presents Skegss’ most masterful and fully realised work to date. The Byron Bay-bred band’s third full-length—and follow-up to their acclaimed sophomore album Rehearsal, which debuted at #1 on their homeland Australia ARIA Albums Chart, and led to their first-ever Coachella appearance and a sold-out U.S. tour—brings a newly heightened creative energy to every aspect of their explosive yet introspective form of rock. Centered on Reed’s frenetic and playful lyricism, Pacific Highway Music ultimately finds Skegss exploring the more complicated elements of the human experience with sincerity, soul, and unabashed joie de vivre. Recorded at two iconic L.A. studios (The Village and Topanga Canyon’s Fivestar Studios), Pacific Highway Music partly owes its wildly unpredictable sound to the period of time Skegss spent cutting demos at Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree with studio owner Dave Catching (a musician/engineer known for his work with Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, and more). “In the past I’d deprived myself of using things like synthesisers, not realising how much texture and atmosphere they can add to the music,” says Reed. “Working with Paul felt like letting our guard down and completely opening up in terms of what these songs could be.” Pacific Highway Music sustains an unstoppable velocity as the band confronts what he refers to as “the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being human.” Reed lists punk libertines like Iggy Pop and underground artists like Deepakalypse among his inspirations, and first immersed himself writing songs after taking guitar lessons from a neighbour at the age of 11. As he broadened his musical palette with the help of surf-movie soundtracks, he began self-recording in his bedroom and creating entire comic books to accompany the collections of original songs he burned onto CDs to hand out at school. In 2013 Reed moved from his hometown of Forster to Byron Bay, where he reconnected with his childhood friend Lani and co-founded Skegss with former bassist Toby Cregan the following year. Although the band started out playing skate parks and pubs, they quickly ascended through the scene and made their debut at Splendour in the Grass within a year, famously drawing a crowd of 20,000 for their opening-slot set. Skegss’ full-length debut My Own Mess climbed the charts in Australia, earned an ARIA Award nomination for Best Rock Album, and gained widespread recognition in the U.S.—a major accomplishment that soon found the band selling out such famed venues as The Roxy in L.A. and NYC’s Bowery Ballroom. In choosing a title for their new album, Skegss honour their roots by nodding to the Australian coastal road they’ve driven on countless of times (on tour and on frequent surf trips), while also reflecting the band’s deepened sense of purpose. “I’ve spent a lot of my life driving on the Pacific Highway, and most of the time it puts me in a bit of hypnotic state,” says Reed. “With this album I tried to be as honest as possible, but I also wanted to create the kind of songs that give you that same feeling—songs where you can shut your eyes, let your imagination take over, and drift off into another world that exists only in your mind.” Pacific Highway Music Tracklist: 1. Tradewinds
2. High Beaming
3. I Think I Can Fly
4. Brain On The Highway
5. Stuck In Cheyenne
6. Spaceman
7. Batten Down The Hatches
8. Aeroplane Heart
9. Out Of My Head
10. It Is
11. Kelly Heroes Pacific Highway Music is now available for HERE. | 
