In November 2022, while touring her album Everything Is Going To Be Alright, New Zealand’s own Princess Chelsea (a.k.a. Chelsea Nikkel) and her band The Dream Warriors found themselves at none other than Abbey Road Studios. They took over the legendary Studio 2 (yep — The Beatles, Pink Floyd, that one) for a single day to record ten songs live, lovingly captured by a crew headed by director Marc Swadel (The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think, The Sparks Brothers)

The set leans heavily on Everything Is Going To Be Alright, which later won the Taite Music Prize (basically New Zealand’s Mercury Prize) for outstanding artistic achievement and was voted #2 best NZ album of the decade by Rolling Stone. Live at Studio 2 captures Chelsea and the Warriors in their element — vulnerable, funny, sad, a little surreal — and completely alive inside one of the most famous rooms in the world.

Princess Chelsea’s music started as a bedroom experiment — and with tracks like The Cigarette Duet and I Love My Boyfriend, she has quietly built a cult following online. These days, though, it’s grown into a full-blown live experience. Her expanded crew, The Dream Warriors, have been called one of the best live bands in New Zealand and features David Harris (drums), Joshua Worthington-Church (guitar), Simeon Kavanagh-Vincent (guitar), Joe Kaptein (keys), Jasmine Balmer (guitar), and Kate Tindall (vocals and percussion)