Chocolate Starfish Archives

The 2024 One Electric Day line-up has just been announced with Noiseworks headlining the annual event at Melbourne’s Werribee Park.

Chocolate Starfish have taken ‘The Candy Man’, the Willie Wonka classic made famous by Sammy Davis Jr and turned it into the Blues Rock version ‘The Candyman Blues’.

Suzi Quatro and Cheap Trick will return to Australia in 2024 to perform for series three of Red Hot Summer.

Chocolate Starfish will mark their 30th anniversary with dates in June, July, August, September and October 2024.

Imagine this. A kid born the same day Noiseworks ‘Love Verses Money’ album came out is now 31. Last Friday Noiseworks released their fourth album ‘Evolution’ and gave their 31 year old kid a brother.

Chocolate Starfish will be on the road for the first half of 2023 performing Meat Loaf’s classic ‘Bat Out of Hell’.

Hunters & Collectors will finish up what was meant to be a 10 week reunion but ended up going almost three years this weekend for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour.

Suzi Quatro has a newly recorded EP of covers coming at the end of September titled ‘Uncovered’.

Music fans have lapped up Duane McDonald’s Suzi Quatro One Electric Day dates with the Sandstone Point Hotel event at Bribie Island the latest sell-out for the 2022 season.

Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day has another sell-out for 2022. The Werribee Park show headlined by Suzi Quatro is now at capacity.

Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day in Mornington, featuring the return of Suzi Quatro, has sold out.

Suzi Quatro’s Australia dates have been expanded to Western Australia with a show for Hillarys, 20ks north of Perth.

Suzi Quatro will return to Australia for her 34th tour for Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day in November, and as a bonus you’ll also have Noiseworks reform for the event.

Chocolate Starfish are planning to give Melbourne another dose of ‘Bat Out Of Hell’, the Meat Loaf classic they have toured over the years.

Chocolate Starfish will perform two shows at Melbourne’s Chapel Off Chapel for the launch of their new album ‘The Beautiful Addiction’.

Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day will return to the Great Lawn in Werribee in 2021 with Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, The Black Sorrows, Jon Stevens, Killing Heidi and Chocolate Starfish.

980 artists will perform across 85 venues in Victoria as a result of the Music For Victoria Fund being injected into the Victorian music community.

Adam Thompson says Chocolate Starfish had a long and hard discussion about recording another album in the 2020’s before moving forward with ‘Beautiful Addiction’. The album will be released in May.

Back in the year 2000 Australia was on the verge of a new pop band called Sugarlips ready to break big. Then Festival Records got Murdicked around and the SugarLips story was erased from the story of Australian pop.

Adam Thompson has announced the postponement of the regional run of his acclaimed Bohemian Rhapsody tour throughout Australia due to the developing situation with COVID-19. The show, which is an ode to his hero Freddie Mercury and Queen, kicked off in February and was slated to run through until June.

Chocolate Starfish singer Adam Thompson will tour his Queen tribute ‘Bohemian Rhapsody – Live In Concert’ around Australia in 2020.

Suzi Quatro has delivered her most powerful song of the 21st century with ‘No Soul/No Control’. The song is the title track from her upcoming ‘No Soul’ album.

Jody Brewster, the 14 year old son of The Angels legend Rick Brewster, joined his dad’s band at Red Hot Summer in Hobart on Sunday to perform The Angels classic ‘Take A Long Line’.

Suzi Quatro has written most of the songs on her next album ‘No Control’ with her son Richard Tuckey.

Series one of Red Hot Summer, with headliner Jimmy Barnes, concluded after 10 sold out shows on the weekend. Next … Suzi Quatro will continue Series two starting in the Barossa Valley this weekend.

After a month in Australia, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will down tools after their two final Red Hot Summer shows at Bribie Island in Queensland this weekend.

Diesel is reminding his fans about why they first got into his music with a setlist revolving around his first two albums at Red Hot Summer.

The Baby Animals formed in Sydney in 1989. In 2019 they will release their first Greatest Hits record and tour Australia to mark their 30th anniversary.

Chocolate Starfish singer Adam Thompson has put together the We Will Rock You band to perform the Queen Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack live (plus more) across Australia in November and December.

The Living End’s first album came out over 20 years ago. That first hit, the double-A sided ‘Second Solution/Prisoner of Society’ is year older. I guess that makes The Living End a ‘Classic Rock band’.