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Founded in 1982 the legendary trio DESTRUCTION reached the top of the national thrash metal movement, with albums such as ‘Infernal Overkill’ and ‘Eternal Devastation’ nestling in their impressive heavy metal canon. Even later works like ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’ or ‘The Antichrist’ are glorious moments in thrash, highlighting why DESTRUCTION are part of the “Big Teutonic 4’’ and still touring the world with great success.

Backsliders returned to The Caravan to revisit their Heathen Songbook, an album of driving Delta and Mississippi Hill country blues sounds with original 21st Century new blues anthems with Australian overtones. Dom Turner, Rob Hirst & Ian Collard played tracks from the new album as well as songs from their 30-year history.

Dublin’s finest young pop rock band The Script played the first Australian show of their Freedom Child Tour at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on Thursday 19 April 2018. Returning Down Under after a three-year absence, The Script is Danny O’Donoghue (vocals/keyboard), Mark Sheehan (lead guitar) and Glen Power (drums). After forming in 2007, the band made a grand entrance into the global charts with their eponymous UK #1 debut album in 2008 and its epic, emotionally-charged pop rock anthems Man Who Can’t Be Moved, We Cry, Before The Worst and three-time ARIA Platinum Breakeven.

English singer-songwriter JP Cooper performed his first-ever Australian concert at Hisense Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 19 April 2018, as the very special guest of The Script. Best known to date for featuring on the Jonas Blue platinum-selling, mega-hit single Perfect Strangers, the 34-year-old soulful indie-rocker from Manchester entertained the night’s crowd with his exquisite vocals and smooth guitar melodies.

Christian nu metal band Payable on Death (P.O.D.) kicked-off their Australian Tour on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at Melbourne’s 170 Russell, when they performed highlights from their hugely successful Satellite album plus other hits. Formed in San Diego, California during 1992, the hard rockers have now sold over 12 million records worldwide. They have also received three Grammy Award nominations – all for songs from their fourth studio album Satellite that was released on 9/11 in 2001 and debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, going on to sell more than three million copies in the U.S alone.

Made in Melbourne by the team at ACMI, Wonderland traces Alice’s journey from page to screen to
pop culture icon in an immersive exhibition like no other. Don’t miss this entirely unique celebration
of more than a century of Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice stories on screen. Combining rarely seen
objects and interactive experiences, Wonderland explores how dozens of screen adaptations have used
the magic of film craft, animation, video games, special effects and new technology to make
the impossible possible.

For the first time in Australia, English musician John Waite played Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Easter Sunday 1 April 2018. The night was billed as An Acoustic-Electric Evening with John Waite on his Wooden Heart 40th Anniversary Tour. The sixty-five-year-old performed songs from his time as lead singer and bassist in British rock band The Babys (Isn’t It Time, Everytime I Think of You) in the late-’70s, and from his supergroup Bad English (When I See You Smile) that he fronted between ’87 and ’91, plus solo hits like Missing You and Change. He closed his set with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.

Bodyjar formed in the Melbourne suburbs in 1994, starting out in the worldwide punk boom, alongside Blink 182, The Offspring, Pennywise and Frenzal Rhomb. They toured around the world with many of the era’s most revered acts but have never felt more at home performing in their hometown. Having conquered the Corner stage time and time again, there couldn’t be a more fitting band to lead the launch festivities.