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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 on …

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, which …

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 will present …

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 intense …

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: Myriad (USA) + …

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 Hyde that …

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 and only …

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 apt …

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 does …

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 celebrate, …

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 festival and morphed …

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 Byron Parklands from Friday 20 to Sunday …

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. As you might …

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 …

Tours: John Garcia touring acoustically in Australia

News — January 22, 2018

Ex-Kyuss and Unida frontman -- and stoner rock royalty par excellence -- John Garcia will acoustically perform tracks from his catalogue acoustically for the first time in Australia: Dates are after the jump.