Sooshi Mango are heading back to London, and if you haven’t heard of them yet, you’re about to. The Australian comedy trio, brothers Joe and Carlo Salanitri and their lifelong friend Andrew Manfre, have quietly become one of the biggest acts in the world, racking up over a billion video views and selling out arenas back home with a shocking regularity.
It started about nine years ago with three mates filming sketches in their cars, playing versions of their own immigrant parents and grandparents. The characters, dads Johnny, Vince and Sam, and mums Giuseppina, Carmela and Angela, struck a nerve with anyone who grew up in a Mediterranean heritage household and has been trying to explain their family to everyone else ever since. What began as a niche thing became a very un-niche thing remarkably quickly.
The UK leg of their Home Made world tour brings them to London twice. First up is Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 23rd May, which has been added as an extra date following demand for the original run, and then they close out the tour at the Eventim Apollo on 15th June. In between, they’ll also be playing Manchester Apollo on 12th June and Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on 13th.
The last time they toured the UK, Joe, Carlo and Andrew said it felt like playing in their own backyard, which is either a very generous compliment to British audiences or a very telling sign of just how far their reputation has travelled.
Tickets for Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 23rd May are available via Ticketmaster, and tickets for the Eventim Apollo on 15th June are available through Eventim.
