Penguin Cafe performs music from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

We’re delighted to welcome Penguin Cafe as part of their 2025 tour. With a beguiling blend of melodic instrumental pop absorbing influences of folk, minimalism, and world music, this group are responsible for producing the catchiest of ear-worms beloved of advertisers ever since: Telephone and Rubber Band, Perpetuum Mobile, Music for a Found Harmonium. Founder member Simon Jeffes’ son Arthur’s collective recreates their signature sound, performing a collection of PCO classics – a slice of 70s musical counterculture recreated for the 2020s.

Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, after bringing together a talented group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz to perform his late father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music. Soon after he began to create new and unique genre-defying music, with the spellbinding philosophy of his father always in mind. Outside of Penguin Cafe, Arthur’s composition work has included several shorts and commissions. He worked with Greenpeace and Aardman Animations to compose the soundtrack for Turtle Journey, released in 2020 to high acclaim, to promote the Greenpeace ‘Protect the Ocean’ campaign.