Tag Archives: 2023

Make Them Suffer Celebrate 10 Years Of ‘Neverbloom’ With Anniversary Tour

With just over ten years since the release of their staggering debut album Neverbloom, Aussie metal leviathans MAKE THEM SUFFER have continued to flourish in the decade that has since passed.

MAKE THEM SUFFER will also pay homage to the album that started it all with the Neverbloom 10 Year Anniversary Tour this May and June, with special guests FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY all the way from New Jersey, as well as metalcore locals OCEAN SLEEPER.

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Richard Clapton celebrates 50 years with shows in Sydney and Melbourne

When Richard Clapton told us the party never ends, he meant it.

Ralph, as he’s affectionately known, is celebrating 50 years as one of Australia’s foremost singer / songwriters with anniversary shows at the State Theatre in Sydney on Saturday, 15 April and the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Friday, 19 May. Tickets for both shows go on sale at 9.00am on Monday, 20 February from Ticketmaster.

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Tour News: Boy & Bear Australia & New Zealand Tour 2023

Australian chart-topping and ARIA-award winning act Boy & Bear announce their forthcoming self-titled fifth studio album, Boy & Bear, set to be released independently on May 26. To celebrate, the band shares the news that their latest single “Apex” is available today, and that they will hit the road touring Australia and New Zealand throughout June and July.

BOY & BEAR

Following four ARIA top-10 charted albums, including two number ones, the indie band are following up with a new body of work, self-produced and recorded at Golden Retriever Studios in Marrickville, Sydney, and mixed by Craig Silvey at Toast Studios in London. 

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EP Review: Starcrazy – Another Day, Another Squalor

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

STARCRAZY
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER SQUALOR EP
Released – March 10th 2023

Seldom does a new band appear on the Sydney scene with such a polished set of songs, and a live performance that goes perfectly with the music.  When I saw them live at Glamfest last month I was taken aback at just how good Starcrazy turned out to be!

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Review + Photos: Chocolate Starfish – Bat Out Of Hell

Reviewer and photos by David Jackson – shotz by jackson

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Chocolate Starfish plays Bat Out Of Hell
Albury Entertainment Centre Friday, February 10th 2023.

The “sirens are screaming, and the fires are howling way down in the Albury tonight”

The enthusiastic crowd at the Albury Entertainment Centre got to witness Chocolate Starfish’s latest in their classic album series. 

I will disclose from the onset that I have an unashamed bias for the showmanship of Chocolate Starfish, in particular frontman Adam Thompson. Few music frontmen can play a show full throttle from the first note to the last, engaging every audience member. Few bands would dare to tackle in full one of the greatest albums produced in the 20th century; however the task seemed easy for this band.

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Live Review + Photos: SAMANTHA FISH at Manning Bar, Sydney – 18th February 2023 (with Blake O’Connor)

Review and photos by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

SAMANTHA FISH
Support – BLAKE O’CONNOR
Manning Bar, Sydney   18th Feb 2023

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This tour is an example of what can be achieved with a desire to bring the best musicians to Australia, and put them on a real tour that covers every major centre, including Canberra, Newcastle and Perth, and picks the right size venues, has excellent sound and lighting all round, and uses local support acts in the different areas.  Massive congratulations to Gerard Allmann and Annie Johnsson for pulling this one off!

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Don Broco Announce Long Awaited Australian Shows For May 2023

It has been a whirlwind 12 months for Don Broco.
In the span of 52 weeks they released a UK number 1 album in Amazing Things, had 4 hit singles with Manchester Super RedsGumshieldOne True Prince and Fingernails; headlined the Slam Dunk Festival; and impressively were one of the 4 artists selected to each play an evening at the legendary Royal Albert Hall for 2022 Teenage Cancer Trust
The other 3 were The WhoEd Sheeran and Liam Gallagher!! Not bad company, right?

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SAMANTHA FISH 2023 AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

American artist, singer-songwriter and guitarist Samantha Fish is one of the fastest rising stars in the world of Blues and Rock and Roll. Building an enviable worldwide reputation with her extraordinary guitar skills and visceral live  shows, Samantha and her band are returning to Australia in February for a run of not to be missed headline club  shows around the country.  

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Live Review + Photos: Everclear at Drifter’s Wharf, Gosford – 08 February 2023 (with Trip Fandino & Stupid Baby)

Review and photos by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

EVERCLEAR / TRIP FANDINO / STUPID BABY
Drifter’s Wharf, Gosford
8th Feb 2023

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Everclear are on their 30th Anniversary Tour taking in a whole load of Australian cities and regional towns, and delivering a set that rolls back the years and sees a rough, raucous and loud grunge-punk band delivering classic after classic as if they were all still in their 20’s.  Art Alexakis is unchanged, and has had Davey French on guitar for nearly 20 years now, with Freddy Herrera on bass since 2009, and new boy Brian Nolan on the drums for the past five years.

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