Month: January 2020

Great southern band Icehouse peformed the first of two sold-out concerts at Melbourne Zoo on Saturday 25 January 2020 in front of 3,000 fans during the Australia Day long weekend. Beginning as Flowers in 1977, the Sydney pub-rock band took on the name of their successful album Icehouse (that became the highest selling debut album in Australia) in 1981 and achieved more mainstream success with a synthpop new-wave style.

There Will Be No Intermission is a night of graphic, honest and funny storytelling that she describes as her “most human and vulnerable stage-show to date”.Sombre yet exultant, Palmer has moulded humour, tears, confession and naked personal pain […]

One of Australia’s best rock bands, You Am I wowed Glen Eira at Council’s first Party in the Park event for 2020. You Am I have been involved in the Australian music industry for 30 years.

Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors headlined the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert event at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 18 January 2020 in front of 6,000 people. Led by singer-songwriter Mark Seymour on lead vocals and guitar, Hunters & Collectors is Doug Falconer on drums, John Archer on bass, Barry Palmer on lead guitar, plus their keyboard-playing brass section Jack Howard on trumpet, Jeremy Smith on French horn, and Michael Waters on trombone.

Australian singer-songwriter James Reyne performed at the Red Hot Summer Tour concert held at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 18 January 2020, in front of a sold-out crowd of 6,000 people. He made a name for himself as lead singer of Australian Crawl between 1978 and 1986, who sold more than a million albums in Australia during the ’80s.

The Living End are considered Australian rock royalty, and for good reason. Their blistering live performances have seen them perform far and wide, and their reputation precedes them, they rock from the first note to the last. When The Living End first smashed onto the scene in 1997 with their double-A single Prisoner of Society and Second Solution, they embraced a new Australian sound and fans and critics sat up and listened. Since then they have released seven studio albums, two of which have debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart – four of those are Platinum and two are Gold. They have been nominated for an incredible 27 ARIA Awards. They released their eighth studio album Wunderbar in September 2018.

When it comes to great Aussie rock, it doesn’t come much better than The Angels. It’s been over four decades since brothers Rick and John Brewster co-founded the iconic band and have penned some of Australia’s most anthemic tracks. The Angels are widely reputed for their killer live shows. With hits like Long Line, Marseille, Be With You, After the Rain, Shadow Boxer and Mr Damage to name a few.

Baby Animals burst onto the Australian scene in the 1990s with a solid rock force and a sassy lead singer. Suze DeMarchi proved that girls could rock just as hard as guys and the Baby Animals soon kicked some impressive rock butt with hits such as Rush You, Early Warning and One Word. The band scored themselves ARIA awards for best album and toured the globe. When they split in the mid-1990s they ended a special era of Australian music. The band’s recent reformation and inclusion again on the RED HOT SUMMER TOUR line-up is an opportunity for music fans to see their original rock at its best.

Killing Heidi also celebrate an auspicious anniversary in 2020, two decades since the release of their rock-pop debut Reflector. The smash hit singles – including Weir and Mascara – embedded the album in Australian music history, took out four ARIA awards and reached four times platinum status. It also catapulted Killing Heidi and its teen musicians – Ella and Jesse Hooper – into international superstar status. The Hooper siblings were revered for their songwriting prowess and their subsequent albums earned them critical acclaim.