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Jon Stevens of Noiseworks photo by Winston Robinson

One Electric Day 2024 Showcased A Great Day of Australian Rock

by Paul Cashmere

The much loved celebration of Australian music One Electric Day has showcased once again at its stately home at Werribee Park Mansion outside of Melbourne.

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Cold Chisel photo by Ros O'Gorman

Cold Chisel Mark Their Big Five-O With Biggest Shows Ever

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel will regroup in October to mark the 50th anniversary of when they first got together with the biggest shows they have even done, and all thanks to Face To Face Touring.

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Lookout Festival Sandstone Point 6 April 2024

Lookout Festival Plays To Capacity Crowds In Queensland With Incubus and Live

by Paul Cashmere

With all the doom and gloom in the live music industry right now, the all-new Lookout Festival is off to a fine start with 12,000+ concert goers heading to Sandstone Point and Gold Coast, Queensland on Saturday and Sunday for the Lookout Festival.

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Red Hot Summer Sandstone Point 2024

Red Hot Summer Wins Ticketmaster Australia Festival of the Year Award

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer, the music festival founded by Duane McDonald in 2011, has won the Festival of the Year Award at Ticketmaster Australia’s annual award event.

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Live Nation Come Face To Face For A New Frontier Of Touring In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Live music in Australia has taken an exciting new direction with Live Nation announcing an acquisition of the newly merged Face To Face Touring.

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

Jon Stevens and Icehouse Back To Back Deliver 24 Songs Everyone Knows At One Electric Day

by Paul Cashmere

One of the great things about Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day is the concentration of Classic Australian rock.

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+Live+ and Incubus To Headline Inaugural Lookout Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Australia will have a brand-new music festival in 2024. Lookout Festival will feature +Live+ and Incubus with Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and The Superjesus.

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Jim Kerr of Simple Minds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Icehouse and Simple Minds To Reunite For Red Hot Summer 2024 Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer will recreate the historic 1981 touring line-up with Icehouse and Simple Minds together again on the same bill.

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Jimmy Barnes at Red Hot Summer Mornington 2019 photo Noise11.com

Jimmy Barnes To Headline Red Hot Summer 2024

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer is back for 2024 (well, and a little bit of 2023), with Jimmy Barnes as the Red Hot headliner once again.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

One Electric Day Sells Out In One Electric Morning

by Paul Cashmere

The One Electric Day music festival at Werribee Park for November has sold out in one electric morning.

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Icehouse To Headline 2023 One Electric Day + Duane McDonald Announcement #VIDEO

by Paul Cashmere

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.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Check Out The Size of the Red Hot Summer Crowds

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer 2023 has been generating record crowds this season and here are pictures of what the crowds are looking like.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Red Hot Summer Clocks Up A Record Breaking 2023 Season With Paul Kelly

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour has had its best season ever with record crowds and the longest tour so far.

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Bernard Fanning at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Watch Bernard Fanning Perform ‘Wish You Well’ For Red Hot Summer in Swan Valley

by Paul Cashmere

Watch Bernard Fanning Perform ‘Wish You Well’ For Red Hot Summer in Swan Valley

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Red Hot Summer 2023 Season Continues To Break Records

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour is achieving record crowds in its 2023 season.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Red Hot Summer 2023 Starts This Weekend And There Is Another Sell-Out Show

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald will kick off the 2023 season of Red Hot Summer in Mornington this week while yet another show has sold out for 2023. The Bendigo show on 25 February is at capacity.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul Kelly Prepares To Get Back To Work For A Red Hot Summer

by Paul Cashmere

The Paul Kelly’s seemingly now Christmas obligations out of the way, the next major event will be his headlining tour for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Mannum Sounds By the River Paul Kelly Event Relocated

by Paul Cashmere

Regional Touring’s Duane McDonald is putting fans first by making the decision to move January’s Sounds By The River event with Paul Kelly two months before the date.

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Jon Stevens of Noiseworks photo by Bron Robinson

One Electric Day Delivers Another Classic Rock Day With Noiseworks, The Angels, Baby Animals, The Screaming Jets

by Paul Cashmere

One Electric Day Mornington may have been challenged by weather but when you put together a line-up of heritage Australian rock bands, the fan feast was all that mattered.

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Noiseworks lead singer Jon Stevens performs at the Red Hot Summer tour in Mornington at the Mornington Racecourse. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Noiseworks Perform First Show Since 2016 For One Electric Day

by Paul Cashmere

Noiseworks have performed their first show since 2016 for One Electric Day and as a tribute to their late guitarist, Stuart Fraser.

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Paul Kelly releases new single The Body Keeps The Score and announces Red Hot Summer 2026 headline tour.

Red Hot Summer Clocks Up Another Sell-Out For Hobart

by Paul Cashmere

The 2023 season of Red Hot Summer has clocked up another sell-out with Hobart the latest to get to capacity.

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Mark Seymour of Hunters and Collectors at Red Hot Summer Bendigo photo by Noise11

Hunters & Collectors To Play Final Shows For Red Hot Summer This Weekend

by Paul Cashmere

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.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer Adds Second Bribie Island Show

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s 2023 season of Red Hot Summer has registered a sell-out Sandstone Point Hotel show at Bribie Island with a second shows now on sale for 30 April.

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Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro Covers Classics For Uncovered

by Paul Cashmere

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

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Jimmy Barnes by Gerry Nicholls

Duane McDonald Adds Surprise Jimmy Barnes One Electric Day Event On Cockatoo Island

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald has announced a brand new, one off One Electric Day event in Sydney with Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, Baby Animals, The Screaming Jets and Southern Sons.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul Kelly To Headline Red Hot Summer 2023 Season

by Paul Cashmere

Paul Kelly will headline the 2023 season for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer with Bernard Fanning, Missy Higgins, Mark Seymour, Vika & Linda and Ian Moss & Troy Cassar-Daly also heading around Australia in the new year.

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Paul Kelly AWITG on Friday 17 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sounds By The River Is Already At Sell Out

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s Sounds by the River festival on the banks of the Murray River in Mannum South, Australia has sold out.

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Suzi Quatro, Noise11, Photo

One Electric Day Bribie Island Is A Sell-Out

by Paul Cashmere

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.

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