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Tours: IRON MAIDEN to incarnate on terra australis in 2020
News — November 10, 2019
With what is touted to be their biggest production to date - which is quite something if you are familiar with the spectacle that is an Iron Maiden show -- Iron Maiden will return to Australia in May 2020 to perform 6 massive arena shows and what puts the cherry …
Tours: Mandatory Attendance World Tour
News — October 13, 2019
A tour with “mandatory” in its title. No really. Tim and Eric, AKA creators of Adult Swim’s best shows (Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories), AKA Comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, known as the creators of some of Adult Swim’s more prominent shows, will be …
Tours: Steve Martin and Martin Short schedule Australian tour
News — May 16, 2019
Steve Martin is known for many things with his musical prowess being just one of them – not least he is known for establishing that literally everything sounds funny when you spill it accompanied by a banjo. While older semesters might remember his fantastic incarnations as a stand-up comedian par …
Shows: Australia's Blues & Roots Music Festival 2019
News — April 10, 2019
Showcasing music from every corner of this earthround – not at all merely limited to Blues - on the Easter long weekend close to the beauty that is Byron Bay, Bluesfest serves as the forum for over two-hundred performances over five full days, framed in a context of artisanal food …
Tours: Hugh Jackman: The Man, The Music and The Show in the flesh
News — February 26, 2019
One of Australian’s more prominent exports apart from vegemite and Crocodile Dundee is everyone’s darling and accomplished entertainer Mr Hugh Jackman. Needless to say that due to his world-wide fame, his countrymen hardly ever have the chance to experience The Man. The Music. The Show in the flesh, …
Tours: Eddie Izzard's Wunderbar
News — February 2, 2019
Eddie Izzard is a conferencier par excellence and apart from that a veritable renaissance man. Not only being a cunning linguist and marathon runner, his on-point observations and quips make him also one of the more engaging comedians on this earthround. Eddie will descend onto Oceania where he …
Tours: Stick To Your Guns and Terror coming to town (Australia)
News — January 8, 2019
Talking of hard to the core: Stick To Your Guns will be incarnating in Australia alongside the mighty Terror. It would be surprising if anyone remotely into hardcore would have not come across the two outfits with specifically Terror having honed their craft to become one of the most …
Tours: Harms Way Australian tour
News — January 8, 2019
The evolution of Harms Way is quite something. Not that they were not a veritable heavyweight in the realms of hardcore to begin with, but they have evolved into a force of nature that has to be reckoned with in all realms of what is considered to be heavy music. …
Shows: MONA FOMA 2019: Program Revealed
News — November 10, 2018
This January, Launceston will bear witness to its first-ever Mona Foma—with its signature brand of unexpected, unpredictable and curious programming descending on the state’s second-largest city. Highlights of the 2019 incarnation of MONA FOMA include: ● MUSIC: Neneh Cherry (SWE) + Underworld (UK) + Oneohtrix Point Never: …
Tours: Interpol return down under
News — October 12, 2018
Joy Division has surely left its imprint not only on a large array of bands but is omnipresent in whole musical genres. Interpol is a band where it would prove to be difficult to not see their dark indie-rock, which certainly helped to propel the turn-of-the-century post-punk revival to new …
Shows: Electric Gardens 2019 dates
News — October 11, 2018
The extravaganza that has firmly established itself as a highlight on the festival calendar in the Southern hemisphere, i.e. Electric Gardens has announced its descent onto Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Adelaide from 18 – 27 January, 2019. Spearheading the 2019 incarnation will be the duo Rick Smith and Karl …
Tours: Reggie Watts Australian dates
News — September 10, 2018
Hooray! Known from a myriad of late night show residences and his own endeavours, vocal phenomenon, musician and comedic enfant terrible Reggie Watts returns to Australia for an exclusive AAMI Just For Laughs incarnation in Sydney as well as sideshows in Melbourne and Brisbane. Based on inventive improvisation …
Tours: Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley in Australia
News — August 6, 2018
After postponing his first ever Australian solo tour, Maestro Simmons a.k.a. the long tongued 4-string demon of the legendary KISS, will incarnate down under in August and September of 2018. Four decades have gone by since the release of his first solo album and the tour shall prove an …
Tours: Bruce Dickinson Australian Tour 2018
News — August 5, 2018
If Andrew W.K.’s empowering message is not inspiring enough to become a more ambitious being that is trying to escape the confines of fate, the following gentleman and grande ole dame of NWOBHM shall win you over: Touted as a spoken word event of epic proportions, Bruce Dickinson’s “What …
Tours: Andrew WK Australian Tour 2018
News — August 5, 2018
It is official: The riddle hidden inside an enigma, i.e. Andrew W.K., will hit the shores of Australia to incarnate with the one-man fireworks that embodies in an borderline Sartre-esque way that his musings on the need to be resulted in his life-affirming message that to exist is to …
Shows: Come Together Recharged 2018
News — May 12, 2018
Come Together returns on Queen Elizabeth’s long weekend to Big Top Sydney at Luna Park. Sydney Festival Come Together returns in 2018 on June 10 featuring, Spiderbait, The Superjesus, Melbourne’s Mammal, the fusion oracle Osaka Punch, and Sydney’s pop-punkers Rackett. What started in 2005 as a humble indie …
Shows: Splendour in the Grass 2018 lineup announcement
News — April 15, 2018
Australia has to offer a myriad of festivals. Good ones. Big ones. Genre specific ones. Overarching ones transcending labels and scenes. Boutique-y ones. Splendour in the Grass is without an iota of doubt one of the queen bees. Taking place at the North …
Shows: Dark MOFO 2018 to feature Jarboe, Merzbow, Einstüzende Neubauten and more
News — April 8, 2018
Right. For the upcoming sixth annual DARK MOFO festival from 3–24 June 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from 13-24 of June I was going to work on a “X reason to visit Dark Mofo 2018”. A noble plan. That was until the revelation of this year’s program. …
Music News: Taste da ruckus - Wu-Tang Clan launch their own vodka
News — March 28, 2018
Coinciding with Wu Tang Clan’s 25th anniversary, hip hop super group channels its alchemy in liquid form: With H2O sources from the mountain glacier springs of New Zealand, Wu Tang Clan launches their own triple distilled tiple exclusively in Australia. The group has also released a line of fruit flavors …
