Year: 2020

Fronted by the gracious and haunting female presence of Pierina O’Brien, Devil Electric are a riff-heavy 4-piece rock n’ roll band from Melbourne, Australia. Taking musical cues from the hard rock greats of the ’70s and combining them with powerful, female fronted vocals, Devil Electric have gained fast recognition across local and international stages with their dark, signature sound.

Iconic Aussie rock band Cold Chisel performed a sold-out concert at Rochford Wines in Melbourne’s Yarra Valley on Friday 10 January 2020, as part of their Blood Moon Tour 2020. Cold Chisel is Jimmy Barnes on vocals, Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Don Walker on keyboards, Phil Small on bass, and Charley Drayton on drums.

Perth-based alternative rock band Birds of Tokyo performed in the Yarra Valley at Rochford Wines on Friday 10 January 2020, as part of a sold-out A Day on the Green event.

The overwhelming joy by all to experience the rock gig of the year. No wonder Australia produces great rock stars.. School of rock indeed.

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.