Music Bizarre

Silverchair’s Ben Gillies and Chris Joannau will get together in Sydney on 26 March to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Silverchair album ‘Frogstomp’.

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

I cannot believe Channel 10 got the first Sam Pang Tonight show so wrong. The lighting was bad, the sets look they were second hand throwaways from Sky News, the Titles looked they were done in Microsoft Word and the room looked like it was shot in a spare office.

Little Birdy released their debut album ‘BigBigLove’ on 4 October 2004. In June 2025 they will reform for the 21st anniversary of the release for the national ‘BigBigLove tour’.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera classic ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ first rpremiered as a studio album in 1970 and first staged on Broadway in New York in 1971. The show has rarely been out of production somewhere in the world in the past 54 years. For 2025, its Australia’s turn again for yet another run of the Webber/Rice masterpiece with excellent casting and upgraded stage sets and costume designs.

The Cat Empire will perform a free concert of Federation Square in Melbourne on Saturday 22 March to launch the new album ‘Bird of Paradise’.

Melbourne rapper 360 has reactivated for his first album since 2017’s ‘Vintage Modern’. ‘Out of the Blue’ will be 360’s first album in eight years.