VIDEO PREMIERE: Dan Kelly Ft. Jess Ribeiro

Dan Kelly has launched into 2025 with a new single, Sea Shepherd Cook, featuring singer-songwriter Jess Ribeiro.

Pulled from his latest album, GOLDFEELS, released last year, the music video for Sea Shepherd Cook finds Kelly in Antarctic waters as he explores love and loss. A chill song that recalls the feelings of exploring the ocean, the Sea Shepherd Cook clip is shot in black and white—until the very end—as Kelly takes viewers on a unique journey.

Directed by auteur and philosopher Sunny Leunig and shot by Justin Oleyar, the clip features stunning images of the Southern Ocean generously donated by the CSIRO Hobart Division. Ribeiro’s vocals effortlessly harmonise with Kelly’s. In the video, she appears as an animated Albatross.

In a statement, Kelly revealed that he came up with the idea behind Sea Shepherd Cook following an introduction to kayaking that also included Tasmanian whiskey and homemade pate, made by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan.

“Wandering through the Hobart docks the next morning, grimly trying to work this melange through brainial, muscular and digestive systems, I spied the good ship ‘Steve Irwin’ at berth,” Kelly said.

He continued, “On the dock by the gangplank was a blackboard chalked with a request for donated ingredients for the galley, featuring a list of the most convoluted vegan products I had ever seen.

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“It was a veritable cornucopia of complications from nutritional yeast flakes to rain-activated rice. I wondered to myself, always on the lookout for an escape from reality, whether a job as a Sea Shepherd cook could be my thing.

“The righteous glamour, the kudos I would receive from my Environmental Science 1993 alumni, the beard and the skivvy; would it be worth the seasickness, the juggling of food allergies, the dank passive-aggressive talk among the crew after another bowl of failed Ottolenghi vegan chowder? I decided it easier to write myself the job in song.”

You can watch the music video below.

Starting this month, Kelly will be busy journeying throughout Victoria, playing headline shows as well as opening for Kim Salmon at the iconic Collingwood venue, The Tote. Check out his touring plans below.