{"id":686026,"date":"2026-05-21T22:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:26:14","slug":"ecca-vandal-brings-the-energy-for-late-night-tv-debut-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecca Vandal Brings The Energy For Late-Night TV Debut on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s Ecca Vandal<\/a>\u2019s turn, time to pay attention. <\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in South Africa of Sri Lankan heritage, the genre-bending independent artist is now very much at home in Melbourne, Australia. American audiences got a closer look when Vandal made her debut at Coachella. Here\u2019s a talent who effortlessly fuses rock with hip-hop, punk, jazz, electronic and pretty much anything she wants, a performer with more raw energy than an arena on grand final day.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday night, May 20, another debut as Vandal made her first appearance on U.S. TV with a powerful performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\n\tSporting blue-toned hair and leading a tight backing tandem of electric guitar and drums, Vandal ripped through \u201cCruising to Self Soothe,\u201d lifted from her forthcoming studio album LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, due out Friday, May 22 via Loma Vista Recordings. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe collection was recorded and produced by Richie Buxton and Vandal in Buxton\u2019s childhood bedroom in bayside Melbourne. \u201cWe cut out everything that didn\u2019t serve us, the timelines, the metrics, the pressure to \u2018stay visible\u2019 online. We tuned out of the feed and turned inwards,\u201d she has said of the project. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn Richie\u2019s room, they built a tiny home studio. \u201cFour walls that became a universe,\u201d she recounts. \u201cThe Internet was painfully slow, so we were truly disconnected from the online game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFar away from their inner-city friends, and distractions, that little room \u201cbecame our whole world for nearly two years. It held all our chaos and all our clarity, a little \u2018playpen\u2019 where we could live, play and experiment like teenagers again. We started making things with our hands again, tangible, imperfect, and real,\u201d Vandal enthuses. \u201cWe wanted to celebrate long-form, the idea of an album as a whole body of work, while the world was chasing 15-second snippets and algorithm friendly noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Ecca Vandal experience has been lived on stage, with spots at Camp Flog Gnaw and support slots with the likes of Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, IDLES, The Prodigy, and, most recently, Deftones. The 2026 U.K. and Continental Europe summer festival circuit beckons. <\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out dates below and watch Ecca Vandal\u2019s performance on Kimmel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEcca Vandal\u2019s 2026 U.K. and Europe tour dates
June 3 \u2014 Impact Festival at Tauron Arena, Krakow, PL
June 5 \u2014 Rock im Park Festival, N\u00fcrnberg, DE
June 6 \u2014 Rock am Ring Festival, Nurburgring, DE
June 10 \u2014 Rock For People, Hradec Kralove, CZ
June 15 \u2014 Release Festival, Athens, GR
June 19 \u2014 Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, NE
June 20 \u2014 Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck, DE
June 21 \u2014 Hurricane Festival, Schee\u00dfel, DE
June 23 \u2014 Sparkassen Park, M\u00f6nchengladbach, DE^
June 28 \u2014 Outbreak Festival, Manchester, UK
July 2 \u2014 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, DK
July 4 \u2014 Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter BE
July 5 \u2014 Les Eurockeennes, Belforte, FR
Aug. 18 \u2014 Parkbuhne Wuhlheide, Berlin, DE
Aug. 20 \u2014 Open Air Gampel, Gampel, CH
Aug. 23 \u2014 All Points East x Outbreak Fest, London, UK
Aug. 25 \u2014 IMMA, Dublin, IE
Aug. 27 \u2014 Edinburgh Summer Sessions, Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Ecca Vandal\u2019s turn, time to pay attention. Born in South Africa of Sri Lankan heritage, the genre-bending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,71516,134,59932,61030,427],"class_list":["post-686026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbnews","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-kimmel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}