The Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist Marlon Funaki plays three Australian shows in February, with tickets live from 16 October.
Marlon Funaki built his first studio in his brother’s bedroom; in February he’s playing the Corner Hotel.
The Los Angeles singer-songwriter makes his Australian debut across three headline shows, presented by Frontier Touring. Melbourne gets the first of them, at the Corner Hotel on Swan Street in Richmond on 5 February, before Marlon Funaki heads north to Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on 9 February and Crowbar in Fortitude Valley on 11 February. All three rooms are 18+.
Marlon Funaki
- Corner Hotel, Melbourne – 5 February
- Oxford Art Factory, Sydney – 9 February
- Crowbar, Brisbane – 11 February
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Presales land first. The artist presale runs through marlonfunaki.com/tour from 14 October at 10am local time, with the Frontier member presale opening at the same hour, both running 36 hours or until the allocation empties. A Spotify presale follows on 15 October at 10am and lasts 12 hours. Everyone else waits until 16 October at 11am.
Funaki grew up in Redlands, an inland California town well east of Los Angeles, in a family that played music constantly. He bought an electric guitar in high school, cleared space in his brother’s bedroom for a makeshift recording setup and worked his way through bass, drums and keys. He played nearly every instrument himself on The Universal Language, a six-song EP released in 2020, then followed it with the album Monterey Village in 2022. Touring came out of his own pocket after that, built on word of mouth: house parties that outgrew themselves, then warehouses, then club rooms that sold out.
Warner Records signed him, and 2026 did the rest. The single Let You In arrived in January, trailed in March by the five-song EP HALF MOON, both leaning into the hazy, guitar-led psychedelia he’s known for alongside shoegaze textures, soul grooves and the odd jazz turn. Between releases he appeared at ACL in Austin, Outside Lands in San Francisco, Lollapalooza in Chicago and Ohana in California, and sold out headline dates through North America and the UK.
Fifty-seven Swan Street gets him first, on a Richmond band room floor, a long way from the bedroom where the recordings started.
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