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Linkin Park Return To Melbourne With New Era Performance At Rod Laver Arena

by Paul Cashmere

Linkin Park returned to Australia after 13 years with a packed Rod Laver Arena show in Melbourne, introducing Emily Armstrong as the band’s new vocalist on the From Zero World Tour.

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Kevin Parker Brings The Global Deadbeat Tour Home To Australian Arenas This October With Special Guest Ninajirachi

by Paul Cashmere

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker brings the Deadbeat Tour to Australia this October with arena shows in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth. Tickets on sale Feb 27.

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Lorde by Thistle Brown supplied Frontier

Lorde Delivers Ultrasound World Tour Revelation At Rod Laver Arena

by Paul Cashmere

Lorde returns to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena with The Ultrasound World Tour, delivering a bold and vulnerable performance built around her album Virgin.

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Lewis Capaldi performing live at Rod Laver Arena during his 2025 Australian tour.

Lewis Capaldi Stuns Melbourne Fans With First Show In Five Years #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

Lewis Capaldi opened his 2025 Australian tour with the first of three packed Melbourne shows, delivering a stripped-back, emotional set that fans connected with instantly.

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Teddy Swims performs live at Rod Laver Arena, joined by Tones And I for a surprise duet in Melbourne.

Teddy Swims (and a surprise Tones and I) Bring Soul and Heart to Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Teddy Swims brought soul, fire and sincerity to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, surprising fans with Tones And I for the live debut of their new duet Gone Gone Gone.

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Kylie Minogue Receives Star At Melbourne Park

by Paul Cashmere

Kylie Minogue has received a Star at Melbourne Park in the forecourt of Rod Laver Arena.

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Kylie Minogue Tension tour Melbourne 2025 photo by Winston Robinson

Kylie Puts On Her Biggest Hometown Show Ever #KylieMelbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Kylie was fun, Kylie was thrilling, Kylie was a great night out. Kylie Minogue shows have always been great but this hometown show for Melbourne was special. The first Melbourne night of the Tension tour as spectacular. The ‘Tension’ tour is so fast paced across a few hours that it feels like its over moments after it starts.

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Michael Gudinski photo by Ros OGorman

Dan Andrews Unveils Michael Gudinski Statue In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Victorian State Premier Dan Andrews has unveiled a statue to the late Michael Gudinski outside Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.

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Robbie Williams Heavy Entertainment Tour at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 24 February 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Robbie Williams To Perform One Off Australian Show While Filming Biopic

by Paul Cashmere

Robbie Williams will perform a 60 minute Greatest Hits set at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne in April as part of the filming of his biopic.

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Sooshi Mango at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena

Sooshi Mango Become First Australian Comedy Act To Sell Two Rod Laver Arena Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne comedy act Sooshi Mango have become the first ever Australian comedy act to sell two shows at Melbourne’s iconic Rod Laver Arena.

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Jimmy Barnes at Red Hot Summer Mornington 2019 photo Noise11.com

Melbourne Gives Jimmy Barnes The Biggest Crowd of the Shutting Down Your Town Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes headlined Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night, a rare feat these days for an Australian act.

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Muse play Rod Laver Arena 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Muse Put On One Of The Biggest Rock Shows Melbourne Has Seen In 2017

by Paul Cashmere

When Muse played their first ever show in Melbourne at the 400 capacity The Evelyn in 2000 they didn’t go anywhere near filling the room. 17 years on there wasn’t a spare seat to be found at the 14,000 capacity Rod Laver Arena.

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Robert Smith, The Cure Melbourne, Thursday 28 July 2016. Photo by Ros O'Gorman https://www.noise11.com

The Cure Melbourne 29 July 2016 #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

The Cure give more in an encore than most bands play in a complete set. Imagine a four part 16-song encore that isn’t even half the show.

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Madonna, Rod Laver Arena Rebel Heart Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Madonna Gives Melbourne A Dose Of Precision Pop Perfection

by Paul Cashmere

When you are the person setting the benchmark then everyone has to rise to your standards. At 57 years old, Madonna is the greatest pop star on the planet. The ‘Rebel Heart’ show in Melbourne was precision pop perfection.

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The new look for Rod Laver Arena

Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena To Be Given A Facelift

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne’s premium live music concert arena, Rod Laver Arena, is about to undergo a bold new makeover.

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Nickelback perform at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 15 May 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nickelback Open Australian Tour In Melbourne REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

Knocking Nickelback has become a sport for some critics. For a band that sits comfortably musically between Bryan Adams to the right and Metallica to the left and is fairly aligned soundwise with Bon Jovi and Foo Fighters Nickelback knockers invariably have no valid back-up to their argument.

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Alicia Keys, Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

REVIEW: Alicia Keys, Melbourne, December 8, 2013

by Anthony Barton

Alicia Keys graced a packed Rod Laver Arena with her amazing voice, supported by John Legend.

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John Legend, Image, Ros O'Gorman

REVIEW: John Legend, Melbourne, December 8, 2013

by Anthony Barton

John Legend was technically the support act for Alicia Keys’ Australian tour, but his talent warrants its own review.

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Pink photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Rod Laver Arena Wins Billboard Touring Award

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena has won a Billboard Touring Award for the recent Pink tour.

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Sydney and Melbourne Get Second Leonard Cohen Shows

by Anthony Barton

After three sell-out tours in five years, you would think Australia would be sick of Leonard Cohen, but following the announcement of extra Sydney and Melbourne shows it seems we just can’t get enough of him.

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One Direction, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Review: One Direction’s First Melbourne Concert

by Anthony Barton

One of the world’s biggest bands are in town and Noise 11 sent a reluctant Anthony Barton along for the ride.

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Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath, Noise11, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Black Sabbath To Release Live DVD From Melbourne Shows

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The upcoming Black Sabbath live CD and DVD ‘Gathered In Their Masses’ was done at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena during the band’s recent Australian tour.

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Muse - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Image: noise11.com

Muse And Birds Of Tokyo Announce Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Muse will return to Australia and start a nation tour in Perth with Birds of Tokyo on November 30.

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Bruce Springsteen, Rod Laver Arena, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Bruce Springsteen Australian Tour Sees Better Days SETLIST Melb 3

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen has premiered ‘Better Days’ at his third Melbourne concert.

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Bruce Springsteen, Rod Laver Arena, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Bruce Springsteen Plays Melbourne And Rosie Comes Out Tonight

by Paul Cashmere

‘Rosalita’ (Come Out Tonight), the one time centrepiece of a Bruce Springsteen live performance, has made its second appearance on the E Street Band Australian tour.

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Bruce Springsteen, Rod Laver Arena, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Bruce Springsteen Plays First Melbourne Show SETLIST

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the first of five Victorian shows at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday night.

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Nickelback: Photo Gerry Nicholls

Nickelback At Rod Laver Arena Melbourne November 27 2012 REVIEW

by Sarah Occhino

A very enthused crowd packed out Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Tuesday the 27th of November when Nickelback performed an alcohol fuelled set, supported by hard rock duo Jackson Firebird.

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Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman

Radiohead Play Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Radiohead played Melbourne tonight for the first time in a decade with one brand new song and a mix of the albums (1997) Ok Computer to the current album The King of Limbs (2011).

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Maroon 5, Adam Levine: Photo Ros O'Gorman

REVIEW: Maroon 5 and Evermore At Rod Laver Arena

by Sarah Occhino

An absolutely thunderous crowd shouted at the top of their lungs on Friday (12th of October) at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena for one of the biggest pop bands in the world, Maroon 5. There was definitely no questioning whom this audience had come to see.

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Pitbull: Photo Ros O'Gorman

REVIEW: Pitbull, Taio Cruz, Havana Brown, Timomatic Landing On Planet Pit

by Sarah Occhino

A restless crowd gathered at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night (August 27, 2012) to catch a glimpse of Mr Worldwide and the star studded line up that joined him on his world tour “Planet Pit 2012” which included Taio Cruz and Australia’s own, Timomatic and Havana Brown.

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