Articles by Paul Miles

March 8th is International Women’s Day and we’d like to honour some of our favourite artists. Mary Boukouvalas, Paul Miles and Mandy Hall have each photographed thousands of gigs over the years. They’ve gone back through their archives to find some of their favourite photos for this gallery.
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American rock’n’roll queen Suzi Quatro headlined the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Bendigo Racecourse in regional Victoria on Saturday 23 February 2019. The 68-year-old from Detroit has been rocking audiences since 1964 and has now sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. After releasing her eponymous debut album in 1973, she quickly became the first female bass player to be a major rock star. […]

Baby Animals played a sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Bendigo Racecourse on Saturday 23 February 2019. Celebrating their new Greatest Hits album, they performed a ten-song set of classics in front of 7,000 people. Baby Animals is singer Suze DeMarchi, guitarist Dave Leslie, drummer Mick Skelton (Thirsty Merc, The Party Boys) and bassist Dario Bortolin (Jimmy Barnes, Dragon, Olivia Newton-John). The band’s self-titled debut album was released in 1991 and spent 6 weeks at #1 in Australia (keeping Nirvana’s Nevermind out of the top spot), winning them multiple ARIA Awards, and achieving multi-platinum sales in Australia. […]

Legendary Australian rock band The Angels performed in front of a 7,000-strong sold-out crowd at Bendigo Racecourse in Victoria on Saturday 23 February 2019 as part of the Red Hot Summer Tour concert. After forming in Adelaide during 1974, lead guitarist Rick Brewster and his brother John Brewster on rhythm guitar remain the longest standing members of The Angels, and the core songwriters and producers for the band. John’s son Sam Brewster plays bass, and Nick Norton is the drummer. […]

Aussie hard rockers The Screaming Jets played to a sold-out crowd of 7,000 people during the Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Bendigo Racecourse in regional Victoria on Saturday 23 February 2019. Fronted by founding members Dave Gleeson on vocals and bassist Paul Woseen, the band also includes guitarists Jimi Hocking and Scott Kingman (Horsehead), plus Mark McLeod on drums. […]

New Zealander singer Jon Stevens played the Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Bendigo Racecourse on Saturday 23 February 2019. The fifty-seven-year-old’s set comprised hit songs from his time fronting Noiseworks between 1986 and 1992, as well as INXS from 2000 to 2003, plus select solo songs. […]

Australian rock band Chocolate Starfish opened the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert held at Bendigo Racecourse on Saturday 23 February 2019. Led by front man Adam Thompson on vocals, the ‘Fish also includes Norm Falvo on keys, John “Stones” Nixon (Roxus) on bass, Darren Danielson (Roxus) on drums, and Zakk Zedras on guitar, who joined after the death of original guitarist and songwriter Zoran Romic in 2012. […]

American singer, songwriter, and record producer Butch Walker performed his first-ever solo show in Australia at Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club on Friday 25 January 2019. Following his days as lead guitarist in glam metal band SouthGang, and then lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3, he embarked upon a solo career in 2002. Butch has since released eight full-length solo studio albums along with three live albums, and a bunch of EPs and DVDs. […]

Australia’s favourite hard rocking blokes The Screaming Jets played York on Lilydale Hotel in Mt Evelyn on Saturday 12 January 2019, for their final Victorian show of The Gotcha Covered Tour. Fronted by founding members Dave Gleeson on vocals and bassist Paul Woseen, the band is rounded out with guitarists Jimi Hocking and Scott Kingman (Horsehead), with Mark McLeod on drums. […]

Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Laine played a one-off Australian concert in Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday 17 January 2019. Widely considered to be one of the best vocalists in the melodic heavy rock genre, Paul Laine is best known for the work he did as a member of Danger Danger over eleven years, which included four studio albums. He has also released solo material and albums with bands Dark Horse and The Defiants. His backing band was melodic hard rockers The Radio Sun – Jason Old on vocals, Stevie Janevski on guitar, Gilbert Annese on drums, and Anthony Wong on bass – who also played a support set to kick off the night. The sizeable crowd throughly enjoyed this special show on Paul Laine’s third visit to Australia. […]