Jungle – Sunshine Tour at Stadthalle
Sunshine Tour presented by Arcadia Live at Wiener Stadthalle D, Austria 20261113
During the beginning of the evening, we had the chance to listen to a new band for state of guitars. Rio Kosta, which presented their debut album Unicorn! Great start, people already started to get in the dancing mood and for sure looking forward to have Kosta Galanopoulos and Mike Del Rio back in Austria for another great show. We are very happy to have seen and listened to Rio Kosta as part of the support for the Sunshine tour. This band gave us a very groovy taste, we definitely recommend you to give them a chance. If you like Jungle and enjoy groovy dance music with a bit similar flow as Khruangbin, you for sure will like it!
It has been a bit more than a decade since The Heat single was released. It was clear since then that Jungle was here to stay. With this outstanding skating choreography, Jungle gave us the beginning of a series of videos which were known for the beautiful dancing and for some of them, the peculiarity of being one-shot videos. It is also clear that Jungle has been a band that has always chosen to follow a path of aesthetic and organic changes. The band started as a duo and quickly became a band that had several musicians playing on stage. Today, they are a trio since the latest member, Lydia Kitto, joined the band officially for the album Volcano. Still, they have always had several collaborations with musicians from different genres.
Right after Rio Kosta and during the whole show, the variety of colours was not so wide, elegantly limited, there were always reference to the colours from each of the five albums released by the band, pretty often with tones of brown from Sunshine and very related orange colour since the release of Volcano on 2023. It has been a very Jungle like colour besides the white, from Loving in Stereo, black from Jungle and yellow, from For Ever. We have seen these colours again a few years ago during the Volcano tour at BBK Live in Bilbao, Spain.
Starting with a dark scene and the awakening of the show, Jungle opened with the song Platoon and followed by the unique sound of The Heat, demonstrating once again that they are not a band that tour one single album. They do not forget about their other releases and probably will never do. This is something we are extremely grateful for, as a Jungle fan for over a decade, it is an exquisite moment when the setlist remains with songs from most albums. Of course, we all have different favourite songs and we all want Jungle to play all their songs in the same concert. That would be around a three hours and a half concert (only including the five released albums as of today). We are totally up for that. Right?
Still, there were indeed some songs missing this time and we are looking forward to have them next time! After saying this, for sure the songs that were going to be in the setlist were The Wave and Sunshine, both bringing the people together in an absolute primal dancing instinct. it was extremely pleasant to see how the crowd enjoyed a collective dance energy together with the whole band dancing while having projection of the rapper Channel Tres in the background while they were playing the song I’ve been in Love. The same happened for the song Candle Flame featuring Erik The Architect. An absolute charm to have these projections in the back.
As the concert kept going, they continued having the crowd completely engaged with the songs Casio and Time. As part of the collective partying, there were some transparent and orange giant balloons bouncing over the crowd for the last part of the concert. Keeping this in mind, it must be stated that Jungle is a band does not skimp whenever it is about giving their fans a great show and an amazing experience.
As a conclusion, we must say that Jungle did it again, we are very happy to have seen them live once again and we absolutely recommend you to live this experience when possible. We are already looking forward for the next tour and for the next album. Do you already have any ideas of which colours will be used for the next album? I am already thinking in some possibilities. Maybe Green and white? something similar to the colours in private music? In any way, you can leave in the comments what you think!
PS: In case you are wondering, the Sunshine tour will be on a short break after November and will return on 2027 in Australia and then Travel all the way to Mexico and continue through Latin America.
Recommendations and special mentions
Topdown – Channel Tres
Tunnel – Polo & Pan feat. Channel Tres
No Doubt (I’m In Love) – Erik The Architect