26 October 2015
Chris Cavill spent many years recording and touring with his backing band The Long Weekend before finding a second life with The Prospectors. While the roots-rock foundations remain, The Prospectors deliver an electric sound – something unfamiliar to the songman.
26 October 2015
Being the sharp individuals that you are, you have probably heard all about the 2016 instalment of the Red Hot Summer Tour. The one and only Jimmy Barnes will headline the event, rocking out his greatest hits, while Noiseworks, The Angels, Mark Seymour & the Undertow and The Badloves will serve up a home-grown selection of their finest and favourites.
26 October 2015
2015 marks 20 years since Carus Thompson took his first musical steps as a then eighteen-year-old. The Perth circuit became his second home, with the singer-songwriter playing as many as five shows a week.
25 October 2015
Happy 40th birthday, Port Fairy Folk Festival, I hope you enjoy your colonoscopy. Yep, it’s the big 4-0 for the festival next year – and celebrations are truly in order.
25 October 2015
After more than a decade since releasing hits like ‘Getting Jiggy With It’, Big Will aka your main man Will Smith, has done a surprise collaboration with Colombian group Bomba Estereo on track ‘Fiesta’. This could be your new possible summer hit, we just knew we were missing a bit more Will Smith in our lives.
24 October 2015
It has been ten long, dry, rock-less years since Dallas Crane last performed in Bendigo, but the drought is almost over with the band hitting the Golden Vine Hotel on October 30.
24 October 2015
Family, friends and great live music in a fun and festive atmosphere is the aim of the Turtle Bend Music Festival, a little music festival with a big heart and soul.
24 October 2015
In what will be the most unusual and can’t-be-missed of all charity events, Seth Rogen is throwing James Franco a bar mitzvah. The two are long known to be good mates, and to sweeten the pot an actual rabbi is said to be in the mix as well as a performance from Miley Cyrus.
23 October 2015
While spending most of his time gigging between Melbourne and Geelong, Jordan Bailey used what little downtime he had in-between gigs to record a second EP. Set for release a touch later in the month, Clear is the follow-up to Breaking the Distance. Originally from Queensland, Bailey played the saxophone before finding his true calling as a singer-songwriter.
23 October 2015
Set for release before the close of the month, Valleywood is the third album from Dan Parsons. Returning to the skills of Robin Waters, the songman drafted some amazing musos to help him with his newie, including Tracy McNeil, Jackie Marshall, Steve Grady, Chris Pickering, Alex O’Gorman (Big Smoke) and Daniel Watkins (One Up, Two Down, Buffalo Nickel).
23 October 2015
Did you know that Australians love live music? It’s true! So let’s share in the inaugural Aus Music Festival – Warrnambool together. Go on, tell that person sitting across from you on the train.
23 October 2015
Alongside his appearance at Beyond The Valley, Jamie xx will perform a headline show in Melbourne early next year.
22 October 2015
We’ll give this a bigger run next issue, but for now we want to quickly bring your attention to next month’s Suttons Birthday Weekend Festival. Set to take place from November 12 through November 15, the birthday bash will welcome the likes of Paige Duggan, Ultrafox, Pugsley Buzzard, Patrick McCabe, Mark with the Sea, The Virginia Slims and Uptown Brown to Ballarat’s Suttons. More through suttonshouseofmusic.com.au.
22 October 2015
Pull up a beanbag as Moonlight Cinema returns for their 20th season this December, showing advance screenings, new releases and cult favourites under the stars, all summer long.
21 October 2015
The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo is returning for their eighth year. This year, AWME will be jam-packed with music industry speakers, a broad conference program of national and international music industry professionals and an array of live musical talent.
21 October 2015
“What a life” were the words Chrissy Amphlett concluded a Facebook post with, revealing her battle with MS. The news came on the eve of a 2007 tour. Driven by the power of music and an unreal strength, she would perform every show with a fiery disposition. She would collapse once the applause had settled, but she owned the stage – such was her way. A breast cancer diagnosis would come three years later.
21 October 2015
Driven by the likes of Justin Sullivan (New Model Army), Mike Scott (The Waterboys), Peter Perrett (The Only Ones) and Kate Bush, Phil Dean formed Zeptepi in 2001 after being convicted of stealing a loaf of bread in his motherland and sent to Australia.
21 October 2015
Showing what ‘DIY’ is all about, Claude Hay is a fiercely independent artist whose blend of stomping traditional blues, hard rock and booty-shaking funk has won him no shortage of fans the world-over. He’s a man who builds his own gear: you have ‘Betty’, his double-necked guitar made from a kitchen benchtop and ‘Stella’, a ‘Cigar Box’ guitar that started life as a six-dollar baking tin.
20 October 2015
Let the good times roll with The Paper Kites, who are off and running on their first tour of the year. Their lateness to the touring game in 2015 is due to the fact they have been busy with album number two, twelvefour.
20 October 2015
According to the postman, the positive psychological properties of the colour orange include physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance and fun. The negative, meanwhile, include deprivation, frustration, frivolity and immaturity.
20 October 2015
With their sophomore album Gracetown travelling along nicely, San Cisco are off and running on a regional adventure. The album, named after a small town in WA, saw the band once again team with Steve Schram. I guess this means that bass player Nick Gardner is feeling a little better these days.
20 October 2015
Aside from having a killer line up featuring the likes of JOY, Flight Facilities (recently nominated for an ARIA award), The Jungle Giants, Last Dinosaurs, Remi and a whole lot more the location is just as stunning.
20 October 2015
In an interview with IBNLive.com George R. R. Martin let it slip there will be a Game of Thrones movie, as for whether it will be a prequel, a side-story or something else is yet to be determined. Let’s hope it doesn’t take as long as that next book… “There will be a movie but I will not be involved. I have too much to do. That is something HBO and D.B. and David are dealing with. I have two more books to finish and I still have so much to do. The pressure is on. I am such a slow writer and the fans get upset that I don’t write faster.”
20 October 2015
In what seems to be the year for boutique festivals, A Festival Called Panama has just marked its return with the first announcement to the event held at Lone Star Valley in Tasmania on March 11-13.
