For the primary time of their almost 50-year careers, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have joined forces to kind their very own band. As The SATCHVAI Band, the duo will embark on a tour throughout the UK and Europe in summer time 2025, and have plans to launch new music.

Satriani and Vai, together with every of their respective bands, initially teamed up for his or her first-ever tour collectively final spring. The stint marked their first run of exhibits outdoors of Satriani’s G3 tour format, however now, the pair have determined it’s lastly time to kind their personal outfit collectively.

This previous 12 months, Satriani has shaped a part of Sammy Hagar’s Better of All Worlds Tour, which celebrates the music of Van Halen, whereas Vai has been taking part in exhibits throughout the US as a part of the BEAT tour – a tribute to King Crimson.

This new band is a somewhat full-circle challenge of their respective careers, on condition that Satriani served as Vai’s guitar trainer after they had been youngsters. Named because the Browsing With The Hydra tour, their dwell exhibits will kick off on the Barbican in York in June 2025, with dates persevering with by way of to mid July. The stint follows on from their first musical collaboration, The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1, which debuted in March. Their second collaboration is about to be launched simply earlier than the tour.

“The SATCHVAI Band Tour is occurring! I’m so trying ahead to sharing the stage with Steve once more,” feedback Satriani. “Each time we play collectively, it takes me again to after we had been youngsters, consuming and respiration music each second of the day, pushing, difficult, and serving to one another to be the very best we might be. I suppose we’ve by no means stopped!”

Vai provides, “Touring with Joe is all the time a pleasure and an honour. He’s my favourite guitarist to jam with, and now now we have one other alternative to take it to the stage. I really feel as if we’re each on the high of our sport, and the present will likely be a robust celebration of the good instrument on the earth, the electrical guitar!”

Tickets go on basic sale on Friday 13 December. A pre-sale launches at 10am on Wednesday 11 December, with code “surfingwiththehydra”. You’ll find out extra over at The SATCHVAI Band web site.