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Tim Finn Escapade

Tim Finn To Mark 40 Years of Escapade With Three Shows In August

by Paul Cashmere

Tim Finn will perform three shows in August to mark the (belated) 40th anniversary of his debut solo album ‘Escapade’.

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Kylie Minogue Plays First Tension Tour Show In Perth

by Paul Cashmere

Kylie Minogue opened her Tension world tour in Perth Saturday 15 February 2025. In the six years since Kylie’s last tour, the Golden tour, she has released three albums ‘Disco’ (2020), ‘Tension’ (2023) and ‘Tension II’ (2024) and the new show reflects the new music Kylie is performing live for Australia for the very first time.

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Duke Gadd and Steve Gadd photo by Duke Favebook page

Corey Feldman’s Drummer Duke Gadd Dies From Overdose

by Paul Cashmere

Duke Gadd, the drummer for Corey Feldman and the son of drumming legend Steve Gadd, has died from a fentanyl overdose.

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Spandau Ballet perform at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday 19 May 2015; photo Ros O'Gorman

Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp Was Inspired To Make Solo Album After Touring with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason

by Paul Cashmere

Spandau Ballet’s co-founder and principal songwriter Gary Kemp says that the last three years touring the world with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason in Saucerful of Secrets was the catalyst for his third solo album ‘This Destination’.

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INXS Listen Like Thieves 40th anniversary

INXS 40th Anniversary Edition of ‘Listen Like Thieves’ To Be Released

by Paul Cashmere

INXS will release a mega 3CD edition of the iconic fifth album ‘Listen Like Thieves’ to mark the album’s 40th anniversary.

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Vince Neil, Motley Crue, Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Plane Owned By Vince Neil Of Motley Crue Crashes In Arizona

by Paul Cashmere

A plane owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has crashed in Scottsdale, Arizona killing the pilot. Neil was not on board the plane.

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Morrissey. images by Ros O'Gorman

Morrissey Reactivates For UK Dates

by Music-News.com

Morrissey has announced his only UK and Ireland tour dates of 2025.

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Bryan Adams at Rod Laver Arena 6 Feb 2024 photo by Richard Nicholson supplied by Frontier Touring

Bryan Adams Treats Adelaide To The World Premiere of ‘Roll With The Punches’, Perth Cancelled Last Minute

by Paul Cashmere

Bryan Adams premiered a brand-new song ‘Roll With The Punches’ for the first time for Adelaide on Friday night but for Perth it was a different story on Sunday. The show was cancelled at the last minute.

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Bryan Adams at Rod Laver Arena 6 Feb 2024 photo by Richard Nicholson supplied by Frontier Touring

Bryan Adams Is So Happy It Hurts In Melbourne #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

A Bryan Adams show is a party for 14000. The first night of the Australian So Happy It Hurts tour was held at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Adams had the fans at song one.

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Hans Zimmer photo by Suzanne Teresa

German Film Composer Hans Zimmer To Tour Australia

by Paul Cashmere

German film score composer Hans Zimmer will perform his works live in Australia in April.

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Kylie Selects Mallrat To Open Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Mallrat will open for Kylie Minogue on the upcoming Tension tour across Australia.

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Annie Lennox photo by Ros O'Gorman

Annie Lennox Announces Line-up for The Circle

by Music-News.com

Annie Lennox will be joined by an exciting line-up of guests for a fundraising concert in March.

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Singer Brian Canham Pseudo Echo performs at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Wednesday 13 December 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Pseudo Echo ‘Love An Adventure’ Will Introduce New Members New Parts of Australia

by Paul Cashmere

The Pseudo Echo tour will give new members Valentina Taylor (backing vocals) and Andrea Krakovska (guitar) their first national tour with the band.

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Christopher Cross, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Toto and Christopher Cross To Play Melbourne and Sydney

by Paul Cashmere

Toto and Christopher Cross will perform a double headliner in Sydney and Melbourne in April.

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The Stranglers in Australia photo by Ros OGorman, music news, noise11.com

Adam Clayton of U2 Owns The Stranglers’ Bass J.J. Burnel Played On ‘Peaches’

by Paul Cashmere

A relic of rock history, the bass guitar J.J. Burnel used to record The Stranglers’ classic ‘Peaches’ with is now owned by Adam Clayton of U2.

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Sting photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting Down and Out Over Throat Infection

by Music-News.com

Sting has revealed it was a “temporary throat infection” that forced him to postpone a string of performances this week.

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Tina Turner Hot For You Baby

40 Year Old John Paul Young Cover By Tina Turner Released on 40th Anniversary ‘Private Dancer’

by Paul Cashmere

In 1984 Tina Turner recorded a cover of John Paul Young’s 1980 single ‘Hot For You Baby’ but it didn’t make the ‘Private Dancer’ album … until now.

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John Sykes

Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy Guitarist John Sykes Dies At Age 65

by Paul Cashmere

John Sykes, the former guitarist for Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy has died at the age of 65 from cancer.

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Edwyn Collins Facebook image

Edwyn Collins Premieres First Song Since 2019 ‘Knowledge’

by Paul Cashmere

Edwyn Collins, the former lead singer of 80s post-punk band Orange Juice, and who had a massive hit in 1994 with ‘A Girl Like You’ has a new song ‘Knowledge’.

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard Play Without Vivian Campbell As He Undergoes Cancer Treatment

by Music-News.com

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell missed the band’s first concert of 2025 due to his recovery from cancer treatment.

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Motorhead the Noise11 interview with Mikkey Dee

Scorpions Cancel Vegas Show Due To Mikkey Dee’s Sepsis

by Music-News.com

Scorpions have postponed their Las Vegas residency so drummer Mikkey Dee can continue his recovery after being hospitalised with life-threatening sepsis.

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Sammy Hagar supplied HWOF

Sammy Hagar Quits Touring

by Music-News.com

Sammy Hagar has quit touring. Hagar hit the road last year for his ‘The Best Of All Worlds’ tour – which covered the US, Canada and Japan – and he’s preparing to launch the show as a residency which will run from April 30 until May 17 at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas – and he’s now insisted he’s sick of travelling and just wants to perform one-off concerts and residencies which allow him to stay in one place.

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David Lynch photo from the Lynch estate

Film Legend David Lynch Dies At 78

by Paul Cashmere

Film legend David Lynch, best known for Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 78.

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Gary Kemp This Destination

Gary Kemp To Release Third Solo Album ‘This Destination’

by Paul Cashmere

Former Spandau Ballet co-founder Gary Kemp will release his third solo album ‘This Destination’ on 31 January 2025.

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Linda Nolan

Linda Nolan of The Nolans Dies At Age 65

by Paul Cashmere

Linda Nolan of Irish pop group The Nolans has died at the age of 65.

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Metallica photo by Ros O'Gorman

Metallica Donate $500000 To Fire Victims

by Music-News.com

Metallica have donated $500,000 to the Los Angeles wildfires relief efforts.

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John Fogerty Centerfield

John Fogerty Centerfield Turns 40

by Paul Cashmere

John Fogerty’s third solo album ‘Centerfield’ was released on 14 January 1985.

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Smoked Salmon left to right Jeff Hooker, Claire Birchall, Kim Salmon, Doug Galbraith

Kim Salmon To Take Smoked Salmon Upstream For March/April Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Kim Salmon will take his new band Smoked Salmon out for dates from the West to the East and inbetween across Australia in March and April.

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Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark Breakthrough Hit ‘Enola Gay’ Almost Wasn’t Released As A Single

by Paul Cashmere

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s breakthrough hit song ‘Enola Gay’ almost went unreleased as a single.

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The Edge, U2 perform at Etihad Stadium.

U2 New Music On The Way

by Music-News.com

U2 are “in a great place creatively”. Guitarist The Edge has teased that U2 are planning to drop a new song imminently after wading through new material.

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A plane owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has crashed in Scottsdale, Arizona killing the pilot. Neil was not on board the plane.

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Morrissey has announced his only UK and Ireland tour dates of 2025.

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