Baby Gravy Have Finally Made It Down Under: ‘Everyone In Australia Is Cooked, I Love It’

When Baby Gravy (the inimitable pairing of rappers bbno$ and Yung Gravy) formed in 2017, one of the first endeavours they plotted was an Australian tour. It may have taken seven years to materialise, but like the age-old saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day – great things take time, and having now borne witness to their one-of-a-kind live show (keep an eye out for our review), we’re confident in saying it was well worth the wait.

Thus far, Baby Gravy have spread the love to Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, with a Sydney show going down tonight (July 21) at the Hordern Pavilion – they’ll also rock Perth out this coming Tuesday (July 23), wrapping up the tour at the Cantenary Warehouse (head here for tickets). Speaking to Purple Sneakers, bbno$ (aka Alex Gumuchian) beams that he’s “really happy [the tour] is finally happening”. He quips, “Everyone in Australia is cooked, I love it. I love the energy – every single person in Australia is just fun to hang out with. It’s like a better Canada.”

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Yung Gravy (aka Matt Hauri) interjects with another perspective – “I always say it’s like the [North American] Midwest with better weather... but Canada is kind of like the Midwest.” He and Gumuchian agree that as touring artists, it’s especially fun to hit Australia because our crowds are so easy to please: “You don't have to do anything to butter up an Australian crowd,” the latter chuckles. “You can literally just say ‘fuck’ and everyone goes crazy.”

Hauri adds, “I do shoeys at every show and that always starts a riot.” He has, in fact, done a shoey at every date on the Australian tour thus far. Last night in Melbourne, he was joined by Baby Gravy’s entire touring party (except Gumuchian) – one member of whom used a Croc, which Hauri later threw into the crowd.

For the Baby Gravy live show, Hauri and Gumuchian split the itinerary up into seven blocks of roughly 15 minutes – they each get two blocks to perform their own material solo, with their joint performances serving as bookends and a breaker. Here’s how the order went last night:

1. Baby Gravy
2. bbno$
3. Yung Gravy
4. Baby Gravy
5. bbno$
6. Yung Gravy
7. Baby Gravy

The biggest takeaway we have from this setup is that while Hauri’s sets featured some more lowkey moments, Gumuchian’s were balls-to-the-wall from start to finish. Every track he delivered felt tailored to the crowd, chopped and charged for maximum moshability. “I feel like I make music that is just on the scope of exclusively being hype,” he muses. “I can tell when a song is going to be really sick live – it just feels right, you know?”

Unsurprisingly, the biggest moment of the night came when Gumuchian played his current single It Boy, which became a smash-hit before he even dropped it back in May (thanks to his teasers going viral on TikTok). He says: “The first time I ever played It Boy live, without it being released, I was like, ‘Holy shit, this song goes crazy live!’ I was taken so far aback. And now it's doing super well – it’s doing really, really well in Australia.”

It success of It Boy has already influenced Gumuchian’s next move – he was working on an album of ballads (as he teased to Purple Sneakers last August), but recently scrapped it to focus on more bangers. He explains, “I kind of threw that shit in the can and went straight to drum and bass. I had seven ballad songs, but it was like... I’m just not good at it [laughs]. I just want to make rage music, in all honesty. I’ve been making these really upbeat, like, 120-to-130 BPM house records. I’m like, slowly realising that I could just be the next LMFAO.”

Hauri jumps in to let Gumuchian know he’s keen to join in the Party Rocking – “We've got to go to Myrtle Beach and make an album,” he declares – while he’s currently gearing up to drop his first country album in the coming weeks.

And of course, Baby Gravy 4 is also in the pipeline, with Hauri revealing the duo “just decided, on a different call, that we’re going to make an EP in 2025.” He notes: “Albums are a lot, but the first project we did was, like, five songs – we’re going to do another record like that.”

BABY GRAVY

2024 AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Sunday July 21 – Eora/Sydney, Hordern Pavilion
Tuesday July 23 – Boorloo/Perth, Centenary Warehouse

Tickets: secretsounds.com