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Boom Crash Opera will start a busy 2024 with The Best Things tour started March 1 but we have to go right back to 1997 for the last Boom Crash Opera album ‘Gizmo Mantra’.

Boom Crash Opera have more 2023 dates in September and November and Bachelor Girl will make it a double header.

Icehouse will headline the 2023 edition of Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day with Jon Stevens, Belinda Carlisle, Daryl Braithwaite, Mark Seymour and Boom Crash Opera rounding out the bill.

Boom Crash Opera’s Pete Farnan will launch his solo album ‘Home’ in St Kilda in February.

Dale Ryder is back in action for an all-new Boom Crash Opera tour in 2023.

Boom Crash Opera have confirmed they will be once again performing again live in 2023.

Boom Crash Opera’s Peter Farnan has revealed a second glimpse of his solo album ‘Home’ with another new song ‘When Your Parents Go’.

Boom Crash Opera co-founder Peter Farnan has another solo album ‘Home’ and a new video for ‘Hello at Home’.

Former CDB and one-time Boom Crash Opera singer Andrew De Silva will perform the music of Prince in Sydney later this month.

When Hunters & Collectors reformed for Red Hot Summer in 2020 it was meant to be a few months on the road and then all back to the day jobs. With the pandemic and the lockdowns, we can thank Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer festival for giving us a much longer H&C incarnation.

Duane McDonald’s Mannum South Australia event Sounds By The River drew an incredible crowd over the weekend with perfect weather and another beautifully orchestrated production from Regional Touring.

The Red Hot Summer tour, due for Sydney’s Bella Vista Farm this weekend, has been postponed until October.

The Red Hot Summer tour scheduled for this weekend has once again been postponed due to weather.

An anniversary that went slightly unnoticed was the 40th anniversary of the first Hunters & Collectors released in January.

Red Hot Summer Kiama Rescheduled Due To Wild NSW Weather

Two after being postponed due to flooding the Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer show for Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour is finally back this weekend.

Former Juke Kartel singer and one time ‘Rock Star: Supernova’ entrant Toby Rand will replace Dale Ryder for the upcoming ‘Bowie: Golden Years’ shows while Dale attends to Boom Crash Opera commitments.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer is heading across the Tasmania.

Boom Crash Opera have a new live version of ‘Get Out Of The House’, coming on the same day Victoria drops most of its Covid restrictions.

Sounds By The River, South Australia’s music event in Mannum, will return in 2022 with Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, The Living End, The Angels, Jon Stevens, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Boom Crash Opera.

You can honor Australian artists in Australian T-Shirt Day with a round of releases from Scot Crawford’s new Reckless Records.

Band manager and concert promoter Scot Crawford has launched a new record label Reckless with new music coming soon from James Reyne, The Poor, Palace Of The King, Angry Anderson, and Rose Tattoo.

The Red Hot Summer show, featuring Hunters & Collectors in Mornington on February 26, sold out moments after going on sale this morning.

The Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer dates have been rescheduled with their Unfinished Business starting back up in Sydney on 20 February.

Former Boom Crash Opera member Richard Pleasance will release his first non-soundtrack studio album ‘Crooked River’ in September.

The Hope Rocks show at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley has been postponed until February 2022.

Queensland’s Trip The Switch music festival set for Ipswich, Queensland next weekend is the latest victim of #Gladyscluster.

Boom Crash Opera have had to amend five dates for the upcoming Kick It Out Live tour due to Covid restrictions.

Boom Crash Opera’s ‘Kick It Out Live’ tour will feature an all-new setlist including songs never played before, songs rarely played before and a stack of hits. They will also support themselves with an acoustic set at the start of each show.

Boom Crash Opera are Australia’s latest band to reactivate following the pandemic shutdown. Boom Crash Opera will head out on their ‘Kick It Out Live’ 2021 Australia tour starting May 7 in Albury.