Handsome Tours are stoked to present HighSchool!

Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut LP, HighSchool announce their East Coast album tour. The duo of Rory Trobbiani and Luke Scott bring their much-vaunted live show to home shores this May with a three date run of shows in Eora/Sydney and Meanjin/Brisbane before rounding out the tour with a homecoming show in Naarm/Melbourne.

Augmented by live members Lily Trobbiani and Lucy Lamb, HighSchool’s hazy and evocative live show is a portal to the sweat-drenched, American Apparel-clad heyday of the late 2000s, bringing a full-bodied dimension to their spectral, cinematic strain of indie rock.

Having initially cut their teeth in Brixton’s famed Windmill scene, they’ve since honed their live performance across stages both at home and abroad, with international tours around Europe, Japan and North America, support slots for the likes of Wunderhorse, Sam Fender, NewDad, Floodlights, Provoker and CHVRCHES, alongside festival appearances at SXSW Austin, The Great Escape, All Points East, Wide Awake, Reeperbahn and more. 

Following years of elusive hype, their hotly-anticipated debut album was released in October last year to praise from the likes of NME, Rolling Stone ANZ, Clash Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, NOTION, PAPER Mag, So Young, Far Out Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, NOTION, Still Listening, Ones to Watch, rage and many more, alongside radio support from triple j, BBC6 Music, RRR, BBC Radio 1, fbi.radio, Skylab, Radio X and others. 

Produced by Ben Hillier (Blur, Depeche Mode) and Finn Bellingham (RIP Magic, Sam Akpro, Sunken) and recorded between London, Lewes (East Sussex) and Melbourne, HighSchool is an intoxicating delivery of 80s post-punk with reflections of alternative revivalism. Meticulous in its construction, the album is a vivid coming-of-age soundtrack that plays on the band’s name for its core theme, fusing post-punk, slowcore and alternative revivalism across twelve deeply personal tracks.

With influences as wide as slowcore, Drain Gang-style hip hop and the alt-rock steps of Alex G, the record sees the band further refine their signature sound as heard in their previously acclaimed EPs while simultaneously curating a new terrain that translates stages of life. Since first capturing attention in 2021 with their breakout Forever At Last EP and 2024 follow-up EP Accelerator, they’ve finely tuned a sound that ruminates on the sentimentalism of suburban adolescence and fleeting youth.

HighSchool will be joined by Kidskin [SYD & BRIS], sleepazoid [MEL] and Rain Dogs [SYD, BRIS, MEL]!