# Event Details - **Event Name**: King Stingray - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 22 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: King Stingray is a story of lifelong friendship. Growing up together in Yirrkala North-East Arnhem Land (a very remote Aboriginal community on in the northern tip of Australia) founding members Theo Dimathaya Burarrwanga and Roy Kellaway have been playing and making music together for as long as they can remember. The band blend ancient indigenous melodies (Yolŋu Manikay) with surf, indie and funk influences to create their unique “Yolŋu surf-rock” sound which has captivated the nation. Hailed as “one of the most exciting acts in the country today” (NME), King Stingray took out triple j’s ‘Unearthed Artist of the Year’ J Award for 2021, NME Australia’s ‘Best New Act From Australia’ and Rolling Stone Australia’s ‘Best New Artist’ award all before an album was released. Their much-anticipated debut LP ‘King Stingray’ dropped in August 2022, supported by a typically cheeky campaign encouraging fans to take #kingstingday off to celebrate the album’s release. The band was nominated for a whopping five ARIA Awards (including a win for the ‘Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist’). In 2023 the band won the ‘Australian Music Prize.’ A total of five singles from the album made it into triple j’s Hottest 100 making it the second most successful Aussie debuts in the history of the countdown. Recently they won Most Performed Rock Work at the 2025 APRA Awards. With 2 albums under their belt now on the live front, the band hasn't missed a beat. They’ve toured all around the country playing all the major festivals such as Splendour in the Grass, Falls and Spilt Milk to name a few. They supported Midnight Oil on their national stadium tour and performed before more than 100,000 people at the MCG stadium during the AFL ‘Dreamtime at the G’ match and NRL Grand Final in 2023. Every one of their headline tours has sold out entirely. 2024 ended with a 15 date support tour of the US with their mates King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizardtheir recent 2025 For The Dream album tour was sold out across theatres and outdoor amphitheaters throughout Australia. With fans in every corner of the country, King Sting have had the opportunity to work on some serious collaborations including one with retail giant Cotton On where a range of eco-friendly King Stingray apparel and accessories were designed and sold in over 280 stores across the country in both 2022 and 2023 that was launched in the US and parts of Europe and Asia too. In addition to this the band has partnered with surf brand Billabong to launch a massive King Stingray + Billabong clothing range (mens and womens) that was launched in 2024 in the US, Europe/UK and Japan. They also recorded an epic version of Down Under by Men At Work for Tourism Australia’s Come and Say G’day campaign, did a song for the famous kids show Bluey, a song with beloved funk group Parcels, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has even championed the band on multiple occasions, selecting Get Me Out as his favourite song of 2022, and wearing his King Stingray t-shirt on Aus Music T Shirt Day! A lot has happened for King Stingray since they released their 2022 debut self-titled album, which took the group from what guitarist/producer Roy Kellaway calls “a pretty sleepy, rural lifestyle in the bush” to one of epic touring and the excitement of being a band on the rise. Not surprisingly, those experiences inform the new album. Don’t, however, expect a weary account of the rigours of life on the road – as with their debut, For The Dreams is a joyous celebration of life and the planet on which we live that oozes optimism from its every note. But where some of the songs on the debut dated as far back as high school in the Northern Territory, where the band began, For The Dreams is a snapshot of the past few years in the members’ lives. “Nothing’s changed in the sense that we’re still who we are, we’re still playing music and enjoying things,” says Kellaway. “But what I think is different about this one is there’s a little bit more lived experience, and we’re singing about different things.” That lived experience is encapsulated in several themes that recur throughout the album. The golden glow of nostalgia amidst the whirlwind of success and life on the road informs “Nostalgic” and “Southerly”; the awe-inducing grandeur of nature and the joy of simple living in a digital age propel “Best Bits” and “Lookin’ Out”; “Soon As” and “What’s The Hurry?” sum up the rush of the past few years and the bliss of slowing down and returning home to Country; while optimism in challenging times (with an undercurrent of climate change commentary) sends the album out on a high with “Cat Five (Cyclone)”. “It might feel like a bit of a cyclone at the moment, but there’s blue skies up ahead,” explains Kellaway of the song. Adds Burarrwanga, who sings its second verse, “On the surface the water is calm and glassy and there is a light breeze. The land and water are quiet, all the birds are still except the eagle soaring on thermals. Beneath the surface is a strong current running out to the horizon; it’s a time to reflect.” “We’re from a small place but we’re singing about big things,” says Kellaway. “That’s what this record is encompassing.” Kellaway (who, as with the band’s debut, produced For The Dreams) began writing and demoing the album in his bedroom in between tours. “My cup was completely full with the biggest vibes from touring and these dreams coming true,” he offers. The early songwriting goals were to “level up” rather than reinvent the group’s sound. While the songs continue to incorporate and celebrate ancestral Yolŋu language, this time the choruses are sung entirely in English “so everyone can participate”. “We wanted a lot of singalong moments, we really wanted to have repeated hooks,” says Kellaway. “We were thinking a little bit more about getting everyone in on the party.” Synths add fresh sonic textures in “Southerly” and “Soon As”, offering new melodic possibilities without diluting the band’s trademark brand of edgy, uplifting rock’n’roll (or Yolŋu Surf Rock, as it’s been dubbed). “I really wanted the album to be easily translated into an epic live show,” says Kellaway. The group’s mantra when it came to recording the album was “Yaka Muckaround!”, meaning “We’re not mucking around!” Studio sessions were booked around Australia so that any downtime between gigs could be used to flesh out the songs and harness the energy of an act with hundreds of shows under their belt. The end result moves from the desert-dry driving rock of “Through The Trees” and the climactic din of distorted guitars, Yidaki and clap sticks in “What’s The Hurry?” to self-empowerment anthem “Light Up The Path” and the more measured, melodic “Southerly” and “Nostalgic”. “Nothing’s changed in the sense that we’re still who we are, we’re still playing music and enjoying things,” says Kellaway. “But what I think is different about this one is there’s a little bit more lived experience, and we’re singing about different things.” More than just advocates, King Stingray really are living their dreams. Just look at some of their achievements: a Top 10 debut album that earned five ARIA nominations (including Album of the Year and Best Group; they won the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist gong); took out the coveted Australian Music Prize; and won the Album of the Year and Best Independent Rock Album or EP at the 2023 AIR Awards. Then there were the US tours and much-talked about performances at high profile events such as South by Southwest, not to mention multiple headline runs around Australia, taking in landmark shows such as their performance at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground as part of the AFL’s ‘Dreamtime at the ’G’. Impressive for an act fashioning a unique blend of raucous rock’n’roll and the ancient Indigenous tradition of manikay (song/songlines), that cut their teeth playing to sparsely populated pubs around Australia, organically building a fanbase and perfecting their wild live show until the momentum became unstoppable. As sung in “Southerly”, “We were just a couple of kids/With a couple of big ideas”. With For The Dreams, those ideas are only getting bigger. “ NME AUSTRALIA - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Both a heartfelt tribute to their roots and a bold manifesto for a sprawling future" ROLLING STONE - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Destined to be an instant classic." THE GUARDIAN "Most bands would be proud to have a collection like this on a greatest hits album." DAILY TELEGRAPH "One of the country’s most exciting new acts." TRIPLE J "feels like an instant Australian classic" THE FADER "profoundly charismatic" - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/king-stingray/200028423260106 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, festivals, theatre, kids, parties, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 18 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/king-stingray/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=los+angeles-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: 104 N. Ave 56, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90042 - **lat**: 34.10911 - **long**: -118.19456 - **full address**: 104 N. 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