Missy Higgins

Peripheny’s Jake Bowen will present a masterclass for Ibanez Australia at the Melbourne Guitar Show on 3 August.

Newcastle’s Trophy Eyes and Perth’s Make Them Suffer have joined The Amity Affliction show for Brisbane on 14 September.

Benjamin Belsey (10 years of age, from Point Cook), Elijah Slavinskis (10, Ashburton), Edgar Stirling (10, St Kilda), Lenny Thomas (12, Bonbeach) and Lachlan Young (13, Camberwell) will play the role of Charlie Bucket in Melbourne edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Jimmy Barnes ‘Shutting Down Your Town’ Melbourne date has been given more than a double-up up-scale moving from the 7,500 capacity Margaret Court Arena to the 14,820 capacity Rod Laver Arena.

When Brian Cadd released his album ‘Silver City’ in February one of the highlights was the moving ‘Everybody’s Leaving’, a song not just about the greats we lost in recent years, but also a statement about our own mortality.

You Am I’s Tim Rogers has gathered his contemporaries to become Captain Walker’s Unborn Children for a complete performance of Pete Townshend’s classic rock opera Tommy this weekend.

Australian performer Ron Vincent plays the music of Cat Stevens and he has received an endorsement from the man himself.