Articles by Mandy Hall

One of Australia’s most enduring performers, Russell Morris brought his inventive new music and beloved back catalogue to Twilights in 2020.

The soaring success of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, the highest grossing music biopic of all time, has proven that the love for Queen remains as strong as ever.

New Zealand’s sludge metal kings Beastwars performed at Stay Gold in Melbourne on Thursday 6 February 2020 to kick-off their short 2020 Australian Tour in support of new single This Mortal Decay.

Iconic shock rocker and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper returned to Australia in February 2020 with his all-new “Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back” show.

Detroit’s proto-punk/hard rock band MC50, brought their ‘Kick Out The Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour” to Australia. Known as MC50 for this tour, the supergroup featured MC5’s Wayne Kramer joined by guitarist Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), drummer Brendan Canty (Fugazi), bassist Doug Pinnick (King’s X), and frontman Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla).

Special guests to Alice Cooper are Australian Rock ‘n’ Rollers, Airbourne. The loud and proud musicians have played around the globe and performed on the main stage at Download UK and co-headlined the Wacken Festival.

The band have only toured the country once in the last 17 years which gives fans prime opportunity to belt out ‘Santa Monica’ and ‘Father Of Mine’ alongside the group in a not to be missed comeback tour.

Five years is a long time between drinks and few know it better than Melbourne punk troubadour Chasing Ghosts. 2011 saw the release of Confessions From A Phone Booth, an unexpectedly intimate record from the hardcore music scene’s stalwart Jimmy Kyle and then to follow it up in 2016, a newly aggrandised Chasing Ghosts presented the long-awaited sophomore I Am Jimmy Kyle, on October 31st, through A Quiet Achiever Records.