8 December 2015
The Aireys Inlet Open Mic Festival has announced its dates for 2016 and will take place across March 18, 19 & 20. Details are minimal at this point, but you are looking at around 150 performances throughout the festival’s duration. A highlight of the festival is the Special Mystery Guest. Previous guests include Colin Hay, Dan Sultan and Tim Rogers. Keep an eye on aireysinlet.com.au for updates.
8 December 2015
On any given day you’re likely to find a busker giving out essentially free entertainment.
8 December 2015
Having been described as “Contemporary Bluesy Rock and Roots”, “honest, raw and energetic” and “a guitar and drum duo with an exciting rich melodic sound”, Lily & the Drum are heading to Ballarat, Bendigo and Rochester to show us why everyone’s talking about them.
8 December 2015
Having shown they can mix it with the likes of Asta, Northeast Party House and Pluto Jonze, indie-pop darlings Swim Season have dispensed with the floaties and have lined up a show where they’ll be the ones in the spotlight.
8 December 2015
A good 10 years ago, when Ian Moss was preparing to record and tour his Six Strings album, he said: “Only once in a blue moon would I try doing a solo show in the old days, and that was with an electric guitar … You have to go back to the song, look at what the lyrics are about, find a new way to express them.
8 December 2015
What better Christmas gift this year than a tin of the Barnes’ traditional shortbread biscuits with a shot of a kilted up Jimmy Barnes on the lid? Answer: There is none.
8 December 2015
Oh yeah, the Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival has announced its 2016 line-up and leading the way are UK outfit The Kingcats and all the way from the Netherlands, CC Jerome.
7 December 2015
You need not be a Masterchef fan for this event, though it certainly helps, what’s important is how much you love food. Two people who share a love for what’s dished up are Jacqui and Ashleigh, past contestants of Masterchef.
7 December 2015
Limited early bird tickets are available for 2016’s Motor City Music Festival. And if you continue reading, you’re going to want to get in early.
7 December 2015
In 1989, Archie Roach stood before an audience of 2000 people at the Melbourne Concert Hall and performed his iconic song ‘Took the Children Away’.
7 December 2015
Been to Africa? Not a worry. Cirque Africa is the show from Africa that’s 100 per cent African, 100 per cent energy and 100 per cent fun.
7 December 2015
The mighty Frenzal Rhomb decided to add an ‘In the Loop’ date to their ‘Friendless Summer’ tour, taking in Lorne’s Lorne Hotel on December 10.
6 December 2015
Oooooh it’s time to let your hair hang down. New Year’s Evie is returning to ring in 2016 and today they’ve added three new acts to the bill, including LA Pocock, CC:Disco! and Big Smoke.
6 December 2015
QV have become the latest addition to Melbourne’s outdoor cinema culture, announcing summer screenings in their deckchair laden central square.
6 December 2015
In Australia for his headline appearance at Bluesfest, Beach Boys frontman and chief songwriter Brian Wilson has locked in a Melbourne show to perform his career-defining album, Pet Sounds.
6 December 2015
Australian rock stalwarts Spiderbait have clocked up 25 years of recording, writing and touring together. To celebrate, they’ve locked in a string of shows and a limited edition greatest hits LP.
6 December 2015
The lovely folk of Geelong are in for a special treat early in 2016 with the John Butler Trio set to perform in G-Town for the first time since 2010.
6 December 2015
Some readers may be familiar with the story of Tim “Ripper” Owens, a singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace Rob Halford. He recorded two albums with the band and his story inspired the 2001 Mark Wahlberg film, Rock Star. Now, I am not suggesting anything, but rock and roll dreams will be realised when Punk Rock Karaoke rolls into town.
6 December 2015
Remember the time you saw Alice playing croquet with flamingos in Alice in Wonderland and it looked oh so cool? Well, there’ll be no misusing animals in this match of croquet, and instead its paired with some incredible live music and food and beverage options.
6 December 2015
Well, it looks as though Jebediah will be straight into action in 2016 with the band announcing a tidy little number of summer shows.
6 December 2015
Featuring Jenny M. Thomas, Chris Lewis and Dan Witton, Bush Gothic performs tales of Australia’s dark history retold. Think songs of criminal women and convict men, treachery and transportation that have been ripped from the Australian songbook and put back together in strange and beautiful ways.
6 December 2015
Maybe you’ve heard of it or maybe you haven’t, but there have been a series of intimate free gigs at a backyard in Hector St, Geelong West – invite only.
5 December 2015
Jessey Jackson is a ‘one-woman band’ from the Surf Coast. She received her first guitar at the age of seven, though things didn’t really take at first and by the age of 11 she had forgotten all but half-a-dozen chords.
5 December 2015
With a home-schooling background, Ziggy Alberts was writing and surfing from a young age. In 2011, he decided to teach himself the guitar, releasing his debut EP, Feels Like Home, the following year.
