The Superjesus Reveal 'Jet Age' 25th Anniversary Australian Tour Dates

“These songs still hit hard, and bringing Jet Age back to life night after night is going to be an absolute blast,” said drummer Ben Todd.

The Superjesus

This June, Aussie rockers The Superjesus will be celebrating 25 years of their seminal second album, Jet Age.

Featuring hits such as Gravity, Secret Agent Man, and Enough To Know, the band will honour the album with a massive national tour. At the shows, they’ll be performing the record in its entirety as well as a selection of their greatest hits.

Last year, The Superjesus released their self-titled fourth album – their first record since 2003’s Rock Music. After touring new music, the band will this time perform Jet Age for fans in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, St Kilda, Castlemaine, Margaret River, Fremantle, Adelaide, the Central Coast, and Marrickville.

The Superjesus will be joined by special guests Sydney’s The Art and New Zealand’s The After at all shows. Tickets are on sale now via the band’s website.

Jet Age was released in 2000. The follow-up to the band’s breakthrough 1998 debut album, Sumo, took the band to grand new heights: performing at Big Day Out, touring in Australia and internationally, and picking up ARIA Awards. There was also some internal turmoil, with founding guitarist Chris Tennent leaving the band and Tim Henwood taking his place.

“We felt so much pressure going in to make Jet Age because of the success of Sumo and the departure of our founding member, guitarist Chris Tennent,” explained singer Sarah McLeod. “We needed to prove to ourselves that we could stand on our own two feet without him.

“As he was my writing partner, I was terrified the magic pathway to creativity would be broken, but it was not broken at all; it was actually strengthened by fresh collaborations with new guitarist Tim Henwood.”

Henwood added, “Back at the end of the ’90s, I was both excited and honoured to be asked to fill the guitar position in The Superjesus after Chris left the band. Playing guitar live in such an established and powerful rock outfit with Sarah, Paul, and Stu was a huge rush — but it was during the songwriting and preparation for Jet Age that I realised Sarah and I had a special connection as songwriters.

“Our very first co-writing session together became the album’s first single, ‘Gravity.’ I’m incredibly proud of Jet Age and grateful for the opportunity to have been part of The Superjesus story.”

Mainstay bassist Stuart Rudd said, “Gravity, to me at least, stood for everything we felt at the time: the hardships, the cold floors, the hope, the disappointment, but most of all, the accomplishment and joy we all felt when we finished recording the JET AGE album.”

Along with McLeod and Rudd, The Superjesus currently comprises lead guitarist Cam Blockland and drummer Ben Todd, both of whom are keen to play Jet Age’s deep cuts.

“I actually grew up with Jet Age without even realising I’d one day be playing it,” Blockland explained. “I used to listen to it on drives with my dad in his ute when I was in high school, so these songs are wired into my brain in a properly nostalgic way.”

He continued, “Obviously, everyone knows Gravity — that song’s a classic — but what’s been really exciting for me is digging into the rest of the album and playing some of my other favourites like Over To You and Everything Turns. I feel like I’m discovering the album all over again, and I’m excited to be involved in bringing it to life in a new way 25 years later.”

Todd added, “Playing for this tour feels like plugging straight into history—these songs still hit hard, and bringing Jet Age back to life night after night is going to be an absolute blast. We have the chance to honour a record that shaped so much of what the band is, while feeling how alive these songs still are after 25 years. See you on the road!”