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Pandemonium Times Announced and Local Acts Revealed

The first Pandemonium Festival shows get underway in Melbourne (Saturday 20 April). The schedule for each city has now been revealed as well as the opening acts.

Tagged as: Alice Cooper, Australian Tour, Blondie, Deep Purple, live music, music festival, Pandemonium, Placebo, rock

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Caloundra Music Festival Cancelled

by Paul Cashmere

Organisers for the Caloundra Music Festival on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland have paved the festival citing rising costs.

Tagged as: Australia, Caloundra Music Festival, live music, Queensland

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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.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, Incubus, live, live music, Lookout Festival, music industry, Regional Touring

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Splendour In The Grass Release Official Statement About 2024 Cancellation

by Paul Cashmere

Following is the exact statement from Splendour In The Grass about the cancellation of the July festival today from CEOs Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco.

Tagged as: Arcade Fire, Australia, Jessica Durcou, Kylie Minogue, live music, music festival, music industry, Paul Piticco, Splendour In The Grass

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Splendour In The Grass Cancelled for 2024

by Paul Cashmere

Splendour In The Grass 2024, set for 19, 20, 21 July, has been cancelled just two weeks after being announced.

Tagged as: Arcade Fire, Australia, cancelled, future, Kylie Minogue, live music, Splendour In The Grass

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Ash Grunwald performs at Melbourne Music Show 2019

Billy Field, Elly-May Barnes, Ash Grunwald To Play Cronulla Jazz and Blues Festival 2024

by Paul Cashmere

Ash Grunwald, Billy Field and Elly-May Barnes lead a long list of great Australian acts lined up for the 2024 Cronulla Jazz and Blues Festival.

Tagged as: Ash Grunwalk, blues, Cronulla, Cronulla Jazz and Blues Festival, Elly May Barnes. Billy Field, jazz, live music, New South Wales

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Icehouse and Jet Introduce Legend of the Lawn 2024

by Paul Cashmere

After a huge 2023, Legends on the Lawn will return to Mackay for 2024 with Icehouse and Jet headlining at line-up with Jon Stevens, Pete Murray, Baby Animals, 1927 and Bachelor Girl.

Tagged as: Icehouse, Jet, Jon Stevens, Legends on the Lawn, live music, Mackay, Queensland, rock

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Pitch Music & Arts Festival UPDATE

by Paul Cashmere

Punters at the Pitch Music & Arts Festival in Moyston, Victoria have been told to leave the site following an Extreme Fire Danger warning issued by the CFA.

Tagged as: Australia, live music, Pitch Music & Arts Festival

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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.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, live music, music industry, Red Hot Summer, Ticketmaster

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Suzi Quatro at Red Hot Summer Berry photo by Winston Robinson

Suzi Quatro Is Still Wild and Never Mild At Red Hot Summer

by Paul Cashmere

The number of hits Suzi Quatro has had in Australia and the UK is incredible. In her homeland America, she only had one …. ‘Stumblin’ In’ in 1978. Their loss, our gain. Australia gets Suzi Quatro and has so since that first hit ‘Can The Can’ reached no 1 in 1973.

Tagged as: Australia, live music, Red Hot Summer, rock 70s, Suzi Quatro, USA

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Sunbury ’24 Will Mark 50th Anniversary of Iconic Australia Festival

by Paul Cashmere

A 50th anniversary concert to mark the impact of Australia’s Sunbury Music Festival will take place in Sunbury in April.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, live music, music festival, Richard Clapton, rock, Ross Wilson, Spectrum, Sunbury 24, Sunbury Music Festival

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John Fogerty Blasts Australian Country Festival For Dumping Him

by Paul Cashmere

Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty has blasted Country Fest Queensland for dumping him from the line-up and calling it “unforeseen circumstances”.

Tagged as: 20s, 60s, Australia, country, Country Fest Queensland, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty, live music, music festival, rock, USA

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Newcastle Scores Two Pandemonium Sideshows

by Paul Cashmere

Newcastle will host Pandemonium Festival bands across two nights of sideshows in April.

Tagged as: Alice Cooper, Australia, Blondie, Deep Purple, live music, music festival, Pandemonium

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Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age at LookOut Torquay photo by Winston Robinson

Queens of the Stone Age Headline Australia’s First Lookout Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Australia’s newest music festival LookOut got off to a massive success in Torquay, Victoria on Sunday with headliners Queens of the Stone Age as well as Australia’s The Chats, Spiderbait, Pond, Gut Health and Lola Scott.

Tagged as: 00s, Australia, festival, live music, Lookout Festival, music, Queens Of The Stone Age, rock, USA

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Jimmy Barnes performs at the Red Hot Summer Tour Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 23 January 2016.

Jimmy Barnes Announces Flesh and Wood 30th Anniversary Hell of a Time Tour After Red Hot Summer Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes has revealed that his next tour will be the ‘Hell of a Time’ tour to mark the ‘Flesh and Wood’ album 30th anniversary. The tour will commence in Perth in June.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Cold Chisel, Flesh and Wood, Hell of a Time, Jimmy Barnes, live music, Red Hot Summer, rock

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Alice Cooper Has A Brand New Radio Show

by Music-News.com

Alice Cooper has returned to radio with ‘Alice’s Attic’.

Tagged as: 70s, Alice Cooper, Blondie, Deep Purple, live music, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, USA

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Jim Kerr of Simple Minds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Simple Minds Are Alive and Kicking Again In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Simple Minds will kick off their Australian dates for Red Hot Summer on Thursday with two shows on Thursday at the Sydney Opera House and then the double header with Icehouse on Saturday and Sunday in Victoria.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Icehouse, live music, Red Hot Summer, Simple Minds, UK

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Take That and Sophie Ellis-Bextor Are Coming To Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Take That will tour Australia in October and November 2024 with Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the This Life On Tour tour.

Tagged as: 00s, 90s, A Day On The Green, Australia, live music, pop, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, take That, UK

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Twilight At Taronga Reveals Surely Shirley, Fanny Lumsden and Felicity Urquhart Will Open Summer Show

by Paul Cashmere

Twilight at Taronga have revealed the artists opening for the Summer Concert Series for 2024. Surely Shirley joins Meg Mac, Felicity Urquhart joins The Waifs and Fanny Lumsden will open for The Whitlams.

Tagged as: Fanny Lumsden, live music, Summer Concert Series, The Waifs, The Whitlams, Twilight At Taronga

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The Rolling Stones, Ros OGorman photographer, Rod Laver Arena

The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Foo Fighters To Play New Orleans Jazz Fest

by Paul Cashmere

New Orleans Jazz Fest 2024 has an incredible line-up with The Rolling Stones, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and Foo Fighters just some of the acts on the bill.

Tagged as: Foo Fighters, live music, music festival, Neil Young, New Orleans Jazz Fest, rock, Rolling Stones, USA

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Mahalia Barnes Says Jimmy Is Going Well and The Supergroup Is Sounding Great for Red Hot Summer

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes is home and doing well recovering from his recent heart operation of in the interim Jimmy’s daughter Mahalia has taken over the family business, the band, for Red Hot Summer.

Tagged as: Australia, Chris Cheney, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, Jimmy Barnes, Jon Stevens, live music, music festival, Red Hot Summer, rock

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Could There Be New Boom Crash Opera Music In 2024?

by Paul Cashmere

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’.

Tagged as: 80s, alternative, Australia, Boom Crash Opera, live music, rock

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The Cat Empire Head For A Second Sell-out Twilight At Taronga for 2024

by Paul Cashmere

The Cat Empire have been one of the hit tickets for Twilight at Taronga at Taronga Zoo in Sydney for 2024.

Tagged as: 00s, Australia, jazz, live music, The Cat Empire, Twilight At Taronga

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IMAGE ABBA Digital Portrait Credit Industrial Light & Magic

ABBA Voyage Earned $410 Million For City of London

by Paul Cashmere

The ‘ABBA Voyage’ avatar concert is said to have earned the City of London a $410 million windfall in its first year.

Tagged as: 70s, Abba, ABBA Voyage, live music, pop, Sweden, theatre

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Jimmy Barnes performs at the Palais in St Kilda Melbourne on Saturday 18 July 2015 as part of the Flesh and Wood Tour 2015.

Jimmy Barnes To Perform Again For Red Hot Summer on April 6, 2024

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes will be back on stage on 6 April, 2024 performing his first show since his heart surgery for Red Hot Summer at Roche Estate, Hunter Valley, New South Wales.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Jimmy Barnes, live music, music festival, Red Hot Summer, rock

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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.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, Face To Face Touring, John Zaccaria, live music, Live Nation, One Electric Day, Red Hot Summer, Regional Touring

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DMA’s, Groove Armada, Tash Sultana To Perform At Australian Open

by Paul Cashmere

The Australian Open has announced its three-day live music events for 2024.

Tagged as: Australia, Australian Opens, DMAs, Groove Armada, live music, Tash Sultana, tennis

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Perform George Michael: Freedom

by Paul Cashmere

Saturday night in Melbourne featured a truly memorable occasion for George Michael fans with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and guests performing the music of George Michael with George Michael: Freedom.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, George Michael, live music, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, pop, UK, Wham

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Cheap Trick and The Angels Pair Up For A Stack of Red Hot Summer Sideshows

by Paul Cashmere

Cheap Trick and The Angels will pair off for a series of sideshows as well as their Red Hot Summer dates in 2023.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Cheap Trick, live music, Red Hot Summer, rock, The Angels, USA

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Amanda Pelman To Present George Michael: Freedom With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

by Paul Cashmere

Producer Amanda Pelman is presenting ‘George Michael: Freedom’ with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra this Saturday night at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Tagged as: Amanda Pelman, Australia, classical, George Michael, live music, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, MSO

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