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Vika & Linda Bull have recorded the Renée Geyer classic ‘Heading In the Right Direction’ as a tribute to Renée and to mark the 50th anniversary of Mushroom.

Eris O’Brien, a long-time songwriting collaborator with Ross Wilson, has died.

The Red Hot Summer tour is heading to Toowoomba this weekend with the tour taking advantage of Northern Australia’s warmer weather over the month.

The 2023 APRA Music Awards nominees have been announced ahead of the event taking place in Sydney on 27 April.

The Castlemaine State Festival is celebrating its 47th year with a line-up for 2023 featuring Kurt Vile, Frente, Ella Hooper and Vika & Linda with a whole lot more.

Vika & Linda stayed back on Red Hot Summer in Mannum, South Australia on the weekend to perform a special tribute to Renée Geyer.

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning will spend the first half of 2023 out solo and on tour for Red Hot Summer. The big question for Fanning is what does a cut-down setlist look like?

When Bernard Fanning hits the stage at Red Hot Summer this weekend in Mornington, it will be the first time he has performed since March last year.

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.

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.

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

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer 2023 tour is expanding fast with new shows added for Jacobs Creek and Cairns in Queensland, Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Swan Valley in Western Australia and Darwin, Northern Territory.

With the first Paul Kelly headlined Red Hot Summer in Mornington now sold out, a second date has been added for January 15.

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.

Regional Touring Murray River event Sounds By the River will return to Mannum, South Australia in 2023.

Blues and Soul greats Vika & Linda, Country singer Beccy Cole, Jazz musician Joe Chindamo and musician and radio host Billy Baxter are amongst the recipients of the Queen’s Birthday Honors for 2022.

The Vika & Linda tour scheduled to start in Brisbane on 16 June has been postponed to August due to Vika undergoing emergency surgery.

Mackay’s first Legends on the Lawn has been moved to August following Jimmy Barnes being diagnosed with Covid.

Jimmy Barnes has Covid and this weekend’s Legends on the Lawn has been postponed.

Red Hot Summer is back for the next two weekends with Gold Coast this Saturday and Bribie Island the following Saturday 30 April.

Red Hot Summer Kiama Rescheduled Due To Wild NSW Weather

Two after being postponed due to flooding the Hunters & Collectors Red Hot Summer show for Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour is finally back this weekend.

The Red Hot Summer tour will take over Berry Showgrounds this weekend with Jimmy Barnes leading an line-up of iconic rock acts.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour is heading to the Hunter Valley and Central Coast in New South Wales this weekend after two successful days outside Melbourne tested new Covid regulations.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer Festival will fire up this weekend with the artists stoked to be back performing.

Red Hot Summer will herald a return to live music this weekend in Mornington with the event to operate under the approved Victorian Government Public Events Framework.

Vika & Linda Bull had their most productive period ever recording during Covid. The stay at home rules gave the sisters the chance to deliver three albums and in that achieved their first number one and two number twos.

When Hoodoo Gurus get back on stage for Red Hot Summer mid January, they’ll be working their way to the 40th anniversary of their first release.

It was good times for Good Times finally hit the stage. Apia Good Times tour was a Covid casualty on three occasions but finally made it to Melbourne for a monumental show in St Kilda after being postponed three times.