Month: January 2020

Australian rock band Magic Dirt performed at Rochford Wines in Melbourne’s Yarra Valley on Friday 10 January 2020 for A Day on the Green. Formed in Geelong during 1991, half of their eight studio albums reached top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart – Friends in Danger (1996), What Are Rockstars Doing Today (2000), Tough Love (2003), and Snow White (2005).

Formed in Örebro, Sweden during 2001, Truckfighters is Ozo (Oskar Cedermalm) on vocals and bass, Dango (Niklas Källgren) on guitar, and Pezo (Oscar Johansson) on drums. They have released seven albums of their trademark heavy stoner rock sound between 2005 and 2016, along with a slew of singles and EPs since the year they began.

Melbourne’s riff-heavy rockers Devil Electric performed at Crowbar in Sydney on Saturday 4 January 2020 as part of their Australian Tour with Truckfighters. Formed in mid-2015 and taking musical cues from the hard rock greats of the ’70s, Devil Electric is Pierina O’Brien on vocals, Christos Athanasias on guitar, Tom Hulse on bass, and Mark Van De Beek on drums.

Uncanny X-Men are an Australian pop rock band which formed in Melbourne in 1981, and temporarily disbanded in 1987. They are fronted by lead singer Brian Mannix and originally included Chuck Hargreaves on guitar, Steve Harrison on bass guitar, Nick Matandos on drums and Ron Thiessen on guitar.

Kids in the Kitchen was a band from Melbourne, Australia that enjoyed considerable local success during the 1980s. The band stood squarely within the New Romantic movement that dominated mid-1980s pop, showing influences of “New-Rom” groups such as Ultravox in its use of synthesisers, its angst-ridden lyrics, and the tendency of frontman Scott Carne to pronounce words such as “too” and “do” as if these had two syllables.

The Nirvana Tribute, out of the United Kingdom, which has been featured in countless publications and has toured across Europe, the United States and Asia, has captured the imagination of both the media and fans alike with their high energy, explosive live performances and their authentic take on everything Nirvana.

Hailing from New York City, Ross the Boss was a founding guitarist in punk band The Dictators before being a founding member of heavy metal band Manowar. He is touring Manowar’s third album Hail To England in its entirety on his Australia and New Zeland Tour, which he brought to Melbourne’s Max Watt’s venue on Friday 22 November 2019.

Whether you’re looking for your first Broadway musical, whether you’ve seen the Academy Award®-winning film and want to experience the show live on stage, whether you’ve seen it before and want to recapture the magic or whether you are after a perfect night of pure entertainment, CHICAGO always delivers.

The multi-award winning, record breaking musical CHICAGO is Melbourne’s Summer Musical! Produced in Australia by John Frost and Suzanne Jones, this Australian production will be playing at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne until February 23rd.