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After wildly successful seasons in Sydney and Brisbane, Dolly Parton’s smash-hit West End musical, 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL, has arrived in Melbourne. Internationally acclaimed and loved by audiences and critics alike, 9 TO 5 plays at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne until 18 September.

The Breadmakers are a Melbourne institution, but are perhaps better known in Japan, Spain and France than they are in some Australian capitals. They formed in 1989 to play early ‘60s-style Louisiana Rhythm & Blues – they take their name from a Slim Harpo track – having individually cut their teeth in ‘60s-styled garage rock bands earlier in the decade.

Punters Club Reunion. Getting the band(s) back together! A trip down memory lane – aka 1990s Brunswick Street – we pay homage to the musos who helped shape the Melbourne music scene.

The Society of Kalamata ‘23 March’ with the support of the Delphi Bank and the Victorian Government has published a bilingual book written by Peter Andrinopoulos. The book highlights the influence and contributions of women of Greek background throughout the world over the last 200 years.

Starting off as a bunch of lo-fi recording and songwriting experiments on a cassette tape, Machine Translations has evolved through numerous incarnations and 8 album releases into one of Australia’s most inventive and hard-to-categorise musical acts.

Armed with only an electric guitar and a few distortion pedals, Penny creates an electrically charged landscape of distorted sounds and harmonics

Kim Salmon’s most enduring legacy, and not one that he particularly tried for, will no doubt be that many blame him, or at least his band The Scientists, for ‘grunge’.

Charlie Marshall is a critically acclaimed songwriter from Melbourne. The Body Electric – have featured musicians from The Dirty Three, Avalanches, Beasts of Bourbon, Hunters and Collectors, Surrealists, Chris Wilson and The Moodists. Some of Charlie’s recent songs are inspired by his passion for science.

A founding member of the late eighties seminal rock group God from Melbourne, Australia. Silbersher has also released solo material under the names ‘Sabotage’ and ‘Melonman’.

Born in the Western Suburbs of Sydney in 1978, The Radiators are one of few Australian bands still thrilling audiences week after week.