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Icehouse at One Electric Day 19 November 2023 photo by Winston Robinson, Noise11

Icehouse To Return To Sydney’s Coliseum Theatre

by Paul Cashmere

Icehouse will return to Sydney’s Coliseum Theatre in August for their second performance.

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Midge Ure, photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

Midge Ure of Ultravox To Return To Australia in October

by Paul Cashmere

Midge Ure will return to Australia in October.

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Paul Hester

‘Hessie A Tribute To Paul Hester’ Mini-Doco to Premiere on 26 March 2025

by Paul Cashmere

‘Hessie’, mini-documentary tribute to the late Split Enz/Crowded House drummer Paul Hester, will premiere on 26 March 2025, to mark the 20th anniversary of Paul’s passing.

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Kate Ceberano photo Ian Laidlaw

Kate Ceberano Announces The Australian Made Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Kate Ceberano has announced a massive 22 date ‘Australian Made’ tour keeping her busy for all of June and July.

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Spinal Tap II The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Teaser Premieres

by Paul Cashmere

A teaser for the long overdue Spinal Tap sequel ‘Spinal Tap II : The End Continues’ has premiered.

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Nick Cave photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Cave Is Working With Flea On A Trumpet Project

by Paul Cashmere

Nick Cave says that he has been asked by Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player Flea to contribute to a trumpet project he was working on.

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Cyndi Lauper at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday 6 April 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Cyndi Lauper Announces Final North American Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Dates

by Music-News.com

Cyndi Lauper has announced the final leg of her extensive year-long Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, with 25 North American tour dates for this summer. The cross-continent tour of outdoor amphitheaters and performing arts centers will begin July 15 and includes two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August 29 and 30, as well as Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY on July 19.

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Peter Garrett at St Kilda Festival 2025 photo by Serge Thomman

Peter Garrett’s Covers World Party With New Song ‘God On My Side’

by Paul Cashmere

Peter Garrett has premiered a new song. This one is a cover of World Party’s ‘God On My Side’.

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Boom Crash Opera

New Music From Boom Crash Opera ‘Latest Hustle’

by Paul Cashmere

Boom Crash Opera are back with their first new music since ‘Dreaming Up A Fire’ and Gizmo’ in 1997.

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The Screaming Jets photo by Kane Hibberd

The Screaming Jets To Headline Rock The Lock In Mildura

by Paul Cashmere

The Screaming Jets will headline Rock the Lock in Mildura at the end of March and then pop over to Broken Hill for another headline show.

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R.E.M. Photo by Ros O'Gorman, noise11.com, music news

All Four R.E.M. Members Reunite for One Song

by Paul Cashmere

All four members of R.E.M., Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Peter Buck, reunited in Thursday at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia.

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Billy Idol photo by David Raccuglia

Billy Idol To Release First Album in 11 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Idol will release ‘Dream Into It’, his first album since 2014, on 25 April.

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Bono, U2 perform at Etihad Stadium. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Bono Doco To Stream on Netflix

by Paul Cashmere

‘Surrender’, a new documentary based on Bono’s book of the same name, is coming to Netflix on May 30.

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Taylor Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan To Tour With Jimmy Barnes

by Noise11.com

Jimmy Barnes has handpicked Taylor Sheridan to open for his Defiant tour shows in June.

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Kylie Minogue recieves star at Melbourne Park photo supplied Frontier Touring

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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Brian Setzer - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Brian Setzer Reveals Auto Immune Disease Has Rendered Him Unable To Play Guitar

by Paul Cashmere

The Stray Cats co-founder Brian Setzer has revealed he can no longer play guitar because of an auto-immune disease. He is being treated for the disease.

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Andy Summers and Robert Fripp Complete Recordings

Andy Summers And Robert Fripp Complete Recordings Are Coming In March

by Paul Cashmere

When Andy Summers spoke to Noise11 in 2024 he mentioned the impending release of an expanded edition of ‘I Advanced Mask’, his 1981 album with Robert Fripp.

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Jimmy Barnes Defiant

Jimmy Barnes To Release 21st Album ‘Defiant’ and Tour In June

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes will be back on the road in June for the ‘Defiant’ tour and there is a new album called ‘Defiant’ to go along with it.

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Chaka Khan supplied photo by Nick Nelson

Chaka Khan To Play Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland in April

by Paul Cashmere

R&B legend Chaka Khan will perform shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland around Easter.

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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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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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