Tag Archives: 2019

Event News : Melbourne Guitar Show – August 2019

The Australian Music Association is excited to today announce the 2019 return of the Melbourne Guitar Show, set to rock Caulfield Racecourse on August 3 and 4 – and this year’s show is set to be colossal. Proudly presented by Triple M and Australian Musician, the lineup boasts an impressive haul of both local and international artists. In addition to the world-class performances from the artists on the massive lineup, #MGS2019 will also hold a huge gear expo that will feature a gigantic variety of electric and acoustic guitars, effects pedals, amps and more state-of-the-art guitar technology, both home-grown and from around the world. See, try and buy! It will continue to be Australia’s biggest guitar pop-up shop, as well as hosting information seminars, demonstrations, and live performances from Australia’s most talented guitarists.
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Salt & Steel – ‘The Beast, The Devil and Me’ Tour – June-August 2019

Gold Coast rock duo Salt & Steel have just released their new single ‘The Beast, The Devil and Me’ and have announced a run of national tour dates to celebrate.
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Tour News : Grinspoon ‘Chemical Hearts’ National Tour : Oct-Nov 2019

Legendary Aussie rockers Grinspoon have today announced their epic Chemical Hearts national tour, set to make its way around the country in October and November, supported by The Hard Aches, Gooch Palms and Bugs. In celebration of the tour, the band will be releasing a Chemical Hearts vinyl record on the day the tour kicks off (October 11) with a tracklist that will offer fans a nostalgic taste of what’s to come at the shows.
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Tour News : DIESEL – Sunset Suburbia Australian Tour : Oct-Dec 2019

Australian hit machine Diesel has today announced the Sunset Suburbia project: a trilogy of EPs leading into an album in 2020. And to coincide with the release of new music, Diesel will hit the road once again this October. With his powerhouse band, Diesel will showcase songs from all three Sunset Suburbia EPs, plus hits and fan favourites spanning 30 years of music making.
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Tour News : BASS DRUM OF DEATH (US) – Australian Tour – October 2019

Bass Drum of Death are heading back to Australia for the first time in over four years this October to bring their primordial garage quicksand to Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong, along with exclusive intimate headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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Tour News : Hans Zimmer – Australian Arena Tour – October 2019

After selling out several arenas during his previous tour, Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer has today announced his hugely anticipated return to Australia, with his follow up ‘Hans Zimmer Live’.
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Tour News : THE DANDY WARHOLS – 25th Anniversary Australian Shows

Get Ready For A Massive Concussion of Rock and Roll with The Dandy Warhols as they’ve just announced they’ll be heading to Australia to perform a special run of shows to celebrate their 25th Year Anniversary. The band will be performing in Melbourne at the Forum on Sunday 3rd November and in Sydney at The Enmore Theatre on Wednesday 6th November.
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Tour News : Regurgitator – Quarter Pounder: 25 Years of Being Consumed

REGURGITATOR
25 years of being consumed!
Emerging from one of the eddies in the independent undercurrent of Brisbane’s 90s music scene, the past 2.5 decades have been of ceaseless re-inventive spirit, playing with form and flux, the affection of self-parody, ever ambling a rickety bridge of modus vivendi, all bagged up with an effervescent outsider enthusiasm that has never left their skin. And now… to pound the quarter century mark with a fully blown visually rehabilitated retrospective of a show straddling a holographic hyperbole of antiquated technology, trawling the analogue back through the digital.
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Brisbane Festival Announce Kate Miller-Heidke – September 27 2019 @ QPAC Concert Hall

With more HUGE announcements waiting in the wings, Brisbane Festival is thrilled to announce that the next instalment of their mammoth 2019 music line up comes in the form of none other than Brisbane’s very own international pop icon Kate Miller-Heidke.
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Tour News : Bad//Dreems ‘Double Dreaming’ Single Tour – July 2019

Australia’s favourite barnstorming five-piece Bad//Dreems are back with their latest single ‘Double Dreaming’, the first taste of what to expect from their forthcoming album due out October this year via Farmer and the Owl, and today they announce a string of headline shows along the East Coast this July in support of the new single.
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Photo Gallery : Karnivool and Southeast Desert Metal at Kambri, ANU Canberra – 1 June 2019

Photographer: Krista Melsom – www.facebook.com/kristabellaphotography

Karnivool at Kambri, ANU Canberra – 1 June 2019
Photographer: Krista Melsom

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Live Review : Karnivool + Southeast Desert Metal at The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 30 May 2019

Words and Pics: Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au

This reviewer hadn’t had the pleasure of seeing the mighty Karnivool live since 2012 and 2013 on the Asymmetry tour. Both of those gigs were held at Sydney’s Metro and the Big Top respectively – much larger venues than Newcastle’s Cambridge Hotel.
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