“Thanks for coming. Next time bring a few friends,” greeted Midge Ure from the compact stage at the intimate Billboard venue Friday night, as he began his first Melbourne show since 1985 with ‘I See Hope (In The Morning Light)’.
Bernie Nolan has moved back to her family home in Surrey, England to live out her final days as she succumbs to the cancer which has spread to her brain, bones, liver and lungs.
Alternative folkster Michelle Shocked left her audience at San Francisco’s Yoshi bar stunned when she embarked on a tirade against homosexuals and gay marriage on Sunday night.
Ringo Starr is to get his own exhibition. On 12 June, the Grammy Museum will open its doors to “Ringo: Peace And Love”, “the first major exhibition to explore the life of Ringo Starr”.
George Harrison, ‘The Quiet Beatle’, would have turned 70 today, the 25th February (although it is said he was actually born 10 minutes to midnight on the 24th, something he discovered much later).
Hot on the heels of sold-out shows in Melbourne and Sydney, and a North American tour with Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher returns for her first headlining Australian tour.
“Most rock bands start as a riot but end up as a parody. We started up as a parody but ended up as a revolution”, says bassist Thomas Seltzer A.K.A. Happy-Tom from Norwegian band, Turbonegro.
Hot on the heels of performing with Frank Turner at the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo are releasing a new single, ‘Fields Of June’.
Singer/songwriter and busker Mark Wilkinson has just announced a national tour in support of his new single, ‘Benny’s On The Rooftop’ and a brand new acoustic album, Hand Picked.
Money, as The Beatles song goes, can’t buy you love. It probably also can’t buy you the services of a legendary crooner like Frank Sinatra to serenade your beloved with a unique recording.
Sydney-sider sisters Neige (vocals/bass) and O (guitar/vocals) Koppes travelled to New York, London and Los Angeles, before landing in Melbourne late 2010.
Late ’80s British shoe gazers Ride are giving their classic album ‘Going Blank Again’ the 20th Anniversary treatment, as well as reissues for their five other albums; ‘Smile’, ‘Nowhere’, ‘Carnival of Light’, ‘Tarantula’ and ‘OX4-The Best Of’.
After three years, 137 blistering shows, 11 festival appearances, two successful EPs and one live album, Melbourne-based alternative prog-rockers Jericco is set to release the second single from their forthcoming debut studio album, due late 2012.
In the past year, London-based Melburnians ME have played more than 100 shows in Europe and the UK, supporting Kasabian, Panic At The Disco and Evanescence, and are coming home for Australia’s Big Day Out 2013.
The Jones Rival claim they honed their songwriting skills whilst busking their way across Europe, and that influence has made its way into their debut ‘Mind of a Dreamer’.
