The Black Sorrows Archives

The Black Sorrows brought four decades of music to Melbourne Recital Centre with a set that honoured their past and celebrated their new work.

Joe Camilleri recalls the DIY studio sessions, kitchen recordings, and the hard graft behind The Black Sorrows’ first four albums, from Sonola to Dear Children.

One of Australia’s most enduring and celebrated bands, The Black Sorrows, are set to release their new single, For Your Love, this Friday, 24th October. The track is the first taste from their upcoming double album, The Quintessential Black Sorrows, a carefully curated collection celebrating decades of genre-defying songwriting.

Peter Solley, the UK producer and musician who worked with Australia’s Joe Camilleri for both Jo Jo Zep and The Black Sorrows, Stephen Cummings with Sports, as well as The Romantics, Peter Frampton, Motörhead, Ted Nugent and Oingo Boingo, has died at age 75.

Midnight Oil will perform at Mundi Mundi Bash in Broken Hill in August.

The Bellarine Music Festival this weekend featuring Brian Mannix & The Androids, The Chantoozies and Taxiride and had to be cancelled due to a Covid quarantine.

Melbourne’s One Electric Day, planned for November 21, has been rescheduled into 2022 due to the ongoing Delta outbreaks and restrictions in Victoria. The sold-out event will go ahead on Sunday January 30. The line-up for the concert remains the same, featuring Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, Jon Stevens, The Black Sorrows, Killing Heidi and Chocolate Starfish.

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.

Victoria will introduce Recharge on 17 May, a streaming media event.

Icehouse will headline Duane McDonald’s new music festival Crowd Surf at Bribie Island in May 2020.

Duane McDonald’s baby One Electric Day is going national for 2019 with the much loved Melbourne event expanding to Launceston, Sydney, Brisbane and the Barossa.

Major new titles coming this week from: Keith Richards, Devin Townsend, Son Volt, Bruce Springsteen (Live), Stevie Nicks (GH), Jamie Lawson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Billie Eilish, George Strait, Logic, Michael Ball, The Black Sorrows, I Prevail, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Brian McFadden, Suzi Quatro and Steve Earle & The Dukes.

The Black Sorrows have released a second taste of their upcoming 20th album ‘Citizen John’.

The Black Sorrows have covered Bob Dylan’s ‘Silvio’ ahead of the 2019 release of their 19th album ‘Citizen John’. (It is also Joe Camilleri’s 49th album).

John Farnham’s Twilight At The Track show in Geelong today has been cancelled.

Another 15 Australian acts will head to the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas in March.

Australian icons The Black Sorrows will perform at SXSW 2018.

Red Hot Summer is heading to Sydney’s Cockatoo Island in February with John Farnham headlining a rock solid line-up featuring Daryl Braithwaite, Baby Animals, The Black Sorrows and 1927.

Black Sorrows legend Joe Camilleri has been the victim of theft after a scum sucker broke into his car in Parkville on Saturday morning, stealing some of his most treasured instruments.

The Black Sorrows have debuted the video for ‘Raise Your Hands’, the third single from the ‘Faithful Satellite’ album.

Major new titles coming out this week include Usher, Anthony Callea, Heaven Shall Burn, Willie Nelson, Remi, Led Zeppelin, Mac Miller, AlunaGeorge, Meat Loaf, In Flames, The Black Sorrows and the new Bridget Jones’s Baby soundtrack.

The Black Sorrows will release their 20th album ‘Faithful Satellite’ next week.

Ballarat will rock out to The Angels, Jon Stevens, The Black Sorrows and Mental As Anything at Lake Wendouree Foreshore in December with Lakeside Twilights.

One Electric Day is heading to Adelaide in December and John Farnham will headline.

Melbourne’s family day rock concert event One Electric Day is a sell-out four months out.

Presales for One Electric Day, Melbourne’s unique family day music event, have sold at record levels.

Joe Camilleri has two new Black Sorrows albums this week. Both ‘Endless Sleep #46’ and ‘Endless Sleep #47’ have been released for Record Store Day on vinyl with a bonus CD.