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Snap Scene: Link Wray Tribute: The Wraylettes, The Exotics, The Vibrajets, Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum – Cherry Bar, Melbourne 5th October 2017

November 10, 2017 Mandy Hall
On 5 November 2005, legendary guitarist (not to mention the coolest man ever to set foot onstage) Link Wray swaggered off this mortal coil. Twelve years later, on the anniversary of his passing, five of Melbourne’s most rockin’ guitar bands will join forces at Cherry Bar to celebrate the man Pete Townshend of The Who called “the king”.

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Snap Scene: The Heartache State, Caravan Music Club – Sun 5th Nov 2017

November 8, 2017 Mary Boukouvalas
Justin Garner & Nick Barker have been playing together on and off for 15 years – Nick producing Justin’s band Southpaw’s debut album and Justin playing on Nick’s last solo record (Blackwater Blues). 3 years ago they hunched over acoustic guitars and hammered a bunch of ideas into songs that became the Heartache State’s debut self titled album. Justin loves the Allman Bros, Nick loves the Replacements, every one likes the Stones so the band, with the addition of long time friend Venom on Drums and Michael Hubbard on Bass, is a collision of all. 

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Snap Scene: Pennywise, Forum Theatre, Melbourne 27th October 2017

November 1, 2017 Paul Miles
American punk rock band Pennywise played the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 27 October 2017 to mark the 20th Anniversary of their legendary fourth album Full Circle, which they’re playing live in its entirety for the first time. The album was an emotional one for the band as it was dedicated to their bassist Jason Thirsk, who tragically died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the year before the album was released in 1997.

It’s widely considered to be one of the most seminal and emotional records of the band’s near-three-decade career, and one of the most defining albums in punk rock history. Formed in Hermosa Beach, California, Pennywise took their name from the evil clown monster in the Stephen King horror novel It. The band consists of singer Jim Lindberg, guitarist Fletcher Dragge, bassist Randy Bradbury, and drummer Byron McMackin.

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Snap Scene: Sebastian Bach, Forum Theatre, Melbourne – 28th October 2017

October 30, 2017 Paul Miles
Canadian heavy metal singer Sebastian Bach played the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday 28 October 2017 as the last show of his Australian Tour following the release of this autobiography 18 & Life on Skid Row released ten months ago. Back in Melbourne after two years, the original voice of Skid Row entertained rock’n’roll fans with a set of classics, plus songs from his solo career.

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Snap Scene: Sarah McLeod with Mick Skelton – Pelly Bar, Frankston. 25th October 2017

October 27, 2017 Mary Boukouvalas
Sarah McLeod describes her latest release, Rocky’s Diner, as “dirty deeds, simple and sweet” yet her scene was, and still is, one of “bunkering down”. The singer-songwriter/guitarist, in her own right as well as a founding member of The Superjesus, explains: “Yeah that’s true – if I had a house. I don’t have a house now. But when I do, I very rarely leave the house. I’m a full home body. I bunker on in there and play my guitar and play with my dog, work on music, fun.”

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Snap Scene: Status Quo & Dino Jag, Hamer Hall, Melbourne. 24th October 2017

October 26, 2017 Mandy Hall
One of the most successful bands of all time, STATUS QUO returned to Australia performing a handful of exclusive concerts as part of their Last Night of The Electrics tour.

STATUS QUO’s thunderous electric live show at Hamer Hall was packed with hits from their enormous catalogue including “Whatever You Want”, “Rockin’ all over the World”, “Down Down”, “Roll Over Lay Down”, “Caroline”, “In the Army Now” and many more.

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Snap Scene: Killing Heidi, Village Green Hotel, Melbourne 21st October 2017

October 25, 2017 Paul Miles
Australian rock band Killing Heidi played the Village Green Hotel in the outer Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave on Saturday 21 October 2017, as part of a regional Australian tour celebrating the band’s twentieth anniversary. Fronted by siblings Ella Hooper on lead vocals and Jesse Hooper on guitar, Killing Heidi is rounded out by drummer Adam Pedretti, bassist James Gilligan, and keyboardist Lena Douglas. This tour is a follow-up to their successful reunion tour of capital cities in the middle of the year, giving them a chance to reconnect with fans from Darwin, all the way down the East Coast of Australia, after they split a decade ago.

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Snap Scene: The Magnetic Fields at the Melbourne Festival – Hamer Hall – Saturday 21st October 2017

October 22, 2017 Mary Boukouvalas
On February 9th 2016, Stephin Merritt, the man who is The Magnetic Fields, sat down and wrote a song. The day was his 50th birthday and there were 49 more songs to follow, one for every year of his life on earth so far. Released in March this year as The 50 Song Memoir album, it’s an autobiographical concept album that tells an entertaining story both musically and lyrically. As part of the Melbourne Festival, Merritt and his band, opened the book of memories and in the first of two nights at Hamer Hall, proceeded to regale and beguile the audience with musical tales from the first half of his life.

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