You Am I Announce 'Hi-Fi Daily Double Down' 2025 Australian Tour

You Am I have announced a return to the Hi-Fi Daily Double format for a national tour in April 2025, some 12 years after they originally performed the shows. The fittingly titled Hi-Fi Daily Double Down tour will see the band perform two sets each night as they did on their 2013 tour: The first playing their 1996 album Hourly, Daily in full, and the second playing their 1995 album Hi-Fi Way in its entirety. The full list of tour dates, as well as ticketing information, can be found below.

The tour was pre-empted with the band announcing a show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre adapting the format, as part of the expanded Great Southern Nights program for 2025. The shows will also coincide with the 30th anniversary of Hi-Fi Way, which is receiving a new vinyl reissue that is set for release on Friday, February 28th. “[Hi-Fi Way is] the sound of a band just doing what they do, no fuss and no fucking around,” wrote the band in a statement announcing both the tour and the vinyl.

“Fast forward to 2025 and You Am I is those same three dudes (plus one), and it’s time to celebrate. Timmy, Davey, Andy and Rusty are as pleased as punch to be bringing our twin album showcase back to a venue near you. The Hi Fi Daily Double Down is a reprise… but with new twists and turns to make it as fresh as the faces that opened for Soundgarden in 1994.”

You Am I – ‘Purple Sneakers’

Both Hi-Fi Way and Hourly, Daily topped the ARIA Charts upon release, making up a hat trick that includes 1998’s #4 Record of three consecutive number-one albums. Hi-Fi Way was later certified Gold by ARIA, while Hourly, Daily was certified platinum. At the ARIA Awards, Hi-Fi Way won the Best Alternative Release category in 1995. The following year, the band won three gongs: Producer Of The Year (themselves), Engineer Of The Year (Paul McKercher and Wayne Conolly) and Best Video (for Hourly, Daily single ‘Soldiers’).

The albums also made a dent in their respective triple j Hottest 100 countdowns. The band scored three songs in the 1995 list from Hi-Fi Way: ‘Jewels And Bullets’ at 94, ‘Cathy’s Clown’ at 84 and ‘Purple Sneakers’ at 24. In a total coincidence, the band returned to the exact same slot a year later in 1996, with Hourly, Daily‘s ‘Good Mornin’ also coming in at number 84. The aformentioned ‘Soldiers’ also appeared in the countdown, coming in at number 80.

You Am I’s Hi-Fi Daily Double Down Tour

Thursday, April 3rd – UC Refectory, Canberra ACT
Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th – Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW
Friday, April 11th – Forum Theatre, Melbourne VIC
Saturday, April 12th – Odeon Theatre, Hobart TAS
Saturday, April 26th – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane QLD
Friday, May 2nd – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide SA
Saturday, May 3rd – Metro Freo, Fremantle WA
Friday, May 9th – NEX, Newcastle NSW

A pre-sale for all tour dates except the first Sydney show will go live at 9am local time on Tuesday, February 18th. General sale will then follow on Thursday, February 20th – again at 9am local time. Both can be accessed by visiting the website of the official tour promoter, Teamwrk Touring.