Articles by Paul Miles

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.

Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes headlined the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 2019. Barnsey performed a set of classics spanning his seventeen studio albums released since he began his solo career in 1984, after his days fronting Cold Chisel. The 62-year-old has won six ARIA Awards, including his induction into their Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2017, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, singer and songwriter, and through support for not-for-profit organisations. Tonight’s performance was evidence of why Jimmy Barnes is one of the most popular Australian music artists of all time.

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts played the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 2019. Led by their sixty-year-old American rock icon Joan Jett on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, The Blackhearts are Kenny Laguna on keys, Dougie Needles on lead guitar, Hal Selzer on bass, and Michael McDermott on drums. When the all-female rock band the Runaways fell apart in 1979, Joan embarked upon a solo career and soon former The Blackhearts. Their version of I Love Rock’n’Roll stayed at number-one on America’s Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks back in 1982. In 2015, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were inducted into th

Australian punk rockabilly band The Living End played the Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 2019. Fresh from releasing their eighth studio album Wunderbar last September, which peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, the rockers performed an upbeat set that got the sold-out crowd moving. The Living End is Chris Cheney on lead guitar and vocals, Scott Owen on double bass, band Andy Strachan on drums.

Australian singer-songwriter and musician Diesel played the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 2019. Performing under the name Diesel, Mark Lizotte is also known as Johnny Diesel. He has won six ARIA Music Awards with three for Best Male Artist in 1993, 1994 and 1995, after two of his albums reached number one on the ARIA Albums Charts in 1992 and 1993. He has also played on numerous albums by his brother-in-law Jimmy Barnes.

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Australian rock band Chocolate Starfish opened the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert held at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 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.

Sydney rock duo Polish Club played a sold-out final show of their Get Some Clarity tour of Australia at Melbourne venue The Gasometer on Saturday 15 December 2018. Formed in 2014 by guitarist & singer […]