Following a sold out tour in June 2014, Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox have announced a brand new, larger scale, UK tour for 2015. This time around, the act has deepened their commitment to the UK by adding twice as many shows, more cities, and doubled the venue capacity to accommodate for the ever-growing demand.
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Proving that everything new can be old again, pianist/arranger Scott Bradlee became a viral pop sensation after creating a series of clips for YouTube (over 573k subscribers and nearly 85 million views – more than half of those numbers earned in the past 4 months) that finds him and his ad hoc group Postmodern Jukebox reworking 21st century pop hits in a variety of vintage styles. Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox have transformed Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" into a '50s-style doo wop number, gave Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" a '20s jazz accent, crossed Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" with Irish folk music and showed how Ke$ha's "Die Young" would work as a classic country tune.
Long Island-born Scott Bradlee grew up with a taste for jazz and classic standards, and he rose to a successful career playing supper clubs and night spots in New York City. By his own admission, Bradlee regarded most pop and rock tunes as unrefined, but, as he himself put it, "As a relentless devil's advocate, I then found that by simply altering the context of such songs, I could find quite a bit of artistic merit inside of them."
In 2009, Bradlee released a digital single, "Hello My Ragtime '80s," in which he grafted familiar lines from 20 pop hits of the '80s into a medley played in traditional ragtime style. Bradlee then began experimenting with live mashups; during his weekly appearances at Robert Restaurant in the Big Apple's Columbus Circle, he would perform numbers that interpolated elements from popular tunes both past and present, and recordings of these experiments were compiled into a digital album, Mashups by Candlelight.
The performances were popular enough that Bradlee released a second Mashups by Candlelight collection, but he enjoyed his greatest popular success when he began using his ideas as the basis for a series of YouTube videos. In 2012, Bradlee got his first taste of viral success when he released “A Motown Tribute to Nickelback,” in which he and a handful of musicians and vocalists reworked a handful of tunes by the Canadian hard rock act into '60s-influenced R&B arrangements. Becoming more ambitious, Bradlee began working with a rotating group of performers dubbed Postmodern Jukebox who tackled Bradlee's arrangements which cast current pop songs in radically different styles, in live sessions filmed with a single camera in Bradlee's home.
After Postmodern Jukebox's cover of "We Can't Stop" racked up nearly 9.7 Million views on YouTube, Bradlee and his revolving door of seemingly endless talent have become the go-to YouTube channel for music you have to hear.