Month: April 2019

Formed at art school in 1976 Mental As Anything are now commemorating the 40th anniversary of their first 1978 record ‘Mental As Anything Plays At Your Party’!

The present line-up of the band features original singer keyboardist Greedy Smith; ex Atlantics guitarist Martin Cilia; drummer Jacob Cook; guitarist vocalist Craig Gordon and bassist vocalist Peter Gray.

Australian alternative rock band Motor Ace performed a sold-out hometown show at Melbourne’s 170 Russell on Friday 12 April 2019, as their national 20th Anniversary – A Five Star Reunion Tour draws to a close. After forming in Melbourne during 1998, they had top five chart success on the ARIA Albums Chart with Five Star Laundry and Shoot This, which debuted at #1 and went Gold.

Since disbanding all those years ago, the Motor Ace boys have been up to all those regular ‘life’ things – families, kids and jobs. But for what’s set to be an amazing few weeks of shows, the band are back together just like the good old days.

Sydney Suburban Soldiers got their chance to hear Dave talk about My Life of Crime – discussion and readings from all his crime novels, but especially River of Salt.

Rock’n’roll outlaws Rose Tattoo played Doncaster’s Shoppingtown Hotel in Melbourne on Friday 5 April 2019, as part of their Still Never Too Loud Tour of Australia with the Hard-Ons.

Sydney punk power pop rockers the Hard-Ons played Doncaster’s Shoppingtown Hotel in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 5 April 2019, as part of their Still Never Too Loud Tour with Rose Tattoo.

Much loved Irish troubadour Luka Bloom is a master of the concert stage. His incredibly gifted electro-acoustic guitar playing guarantees an impassioned live performance of his original, poetic and melodic songs.

Since picking a guitar up for the first time only eight years ago, Brooke Taylor has already crammed more into the resultant time frame than many performers do in a career. A musical grounding in both her home city Melbourne and Sydney, Brooke soon started travelling and playing around the world. Auckland witnessed her first “overseas” gig before an eventful tour of Canada followed, which included playing at venues in Vancouver, Calgary and Banff.