This November, Jack Johnson brings his SURFILMUSIC Tour to Australia, stretching across the country’s outdoor stages with a three-act bill. Alongside him, Ben Harper and John Butler will reshape the night into something more fluid, part concert, part slow-burn gathering.
Johnson has always operated in that space between intimacy and scale. His catalogue, from early acoustic staples to chart-topping releases, carries easily across open-air venues, the kind of songs that don’t demand attention so much as draw it in. With new material arriving via the upcoming SURFILMUSIC soundtrack, these shows feel like a continuation rather than a retrospective, familiar moments threaded with something new.
SURFILMUSIC is a documentary that follows Jack Johnson from his early years as a surfer and filmmaker through to his career as an internationally recognised musician. It documents how the surf films he created with friends became a creative foundation, capturing moments in and out of the water that would later inform his songwriting and broader artistic direction.
Harper’s presence on the tour adds a different texture. A three-time Grammy winner with a catalogue that moves through blues, soul, folk and rock, his solo acoustic sets tend to land with a quiet authority, the kind that doesn’t need volume to hold a crowd.
Then there’s Butler, long a defining figure in Australian roots music. Whether through the expansive runs of the John Butler Trio or his solo work, his playing has always leaned into rhythm and movement, built on guitar lines that feel both intricate and instinctive.
Together, the three artists create a bill that resists the usual peaks and valleys of a touring lineup. Instead, it moves in waves, each set feeding into the next without breaking the flow.
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