Tour News: INXS Rocks Coast To Coast | June-July 2012

After 30 amazing years and over 5000 live shows played to 25 million people across 50 countries, legendary Australian band INXS have announced their long awaited tour into the heart and soul of Australia’s coastal and regional centres. The band have confirmed today that they will play dates in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia during June & July this year. Following the success of recent overseas concerts which included lead singer Ciaran Gribbin, the Coast to Coast tour will take INXS to Australia’s rock heartlands, including Campbelltown, Coffs Harbour, Eaton Hills, Forster, Geelong, Hahndorf, Horsham, Jacobs Well, Lismore, Mt Gambier, Mudgee, Narrabri, Penrith, Shoalhaven, Toowoomba and Tweed Heads.

INXS’s Andrew Farriss said “International commitments have made it difficult to schedule a tour of this intensity to regional Australia before now, but finally the stars have aligned and we are really excited about getting back to the people who have been our core audience since the outset of the band,” he said. ‘Regional Australia has been going through some tough times over the last year or so dealing with various floods and fires so we are excited to bring our live show to these areas.”
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Tour News: Heavenly Sounds 2012 featuring Lisa Mitchell – June 2012

Last year the inaugural Heavenly Sounds tour of churches and cathedrals came to life with sold-out shows across the country featuring Seeker Lover Keeper. This June, Heavenly Sounds is delighted to announce the return of this unique and intimate touring concept featuring Lisa Mitchell with her band and a choir to celebrate the release of her brand new single, Spiritus.

Spiritus means, ‘breath’ or ‘life-force’ and was written at Lisa’s parents home in the country. “I later recorded it with Dann Hume and we filled it with light rhythmic energy and percussion from all over the world! It became full of people and voices and laughter and spirit,’ says Lisa of the track.
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Photo Gallery: Cherry Rock Festival @ AC/DC Lane, Melbourne – 29 April 2012

Photographer: Tony Proudfoot PHOTOGRAPHY for Life Music Media


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Tour News: Simple Plan ‘Get Your Heart On!’ Australian Tour – June 2012

Get ready for the return of Australia’s favourite punk-pop ensemble SIMPLE PLAN this winter. Simple Plan will embark on a massive tour that sees them hit metropolitan and regional venues large and small in their most extensive east coast tour to date!

Their latest offering Get Your Heart On! (out now through Warner Music Australia) stormed the ARIA charts upon its release late last year, armed with fan favourite and ARIA Top 10 single ‘Jetlag’ (featuring Natasha Bedingfield). The new single ‘Summer Paradise’ is the latest in their artillery of hits alongside ‘I’d Do Anything’, ‘Addicted’, ‘Perfect’, ‘Welcome To My Life’ and many more.

Simple Plan know how to deliver in their live shows each and every time, proven in their most recent Australian shows last October:

“As the lights went down the band stepped out in front of a full house, with fans as young as twelve right through to those in their thirties ready to rock…An energetic, hit-filled night.” – MTV Australia
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Tour News: Cannibal Corpse ‘Torture’ Australian Tour – October 2012

After three long torturous years, death metals titanic kings, CANNIBAL CORPSE, return to Australia for a sarcophagic frenzy of sordid and demented proportions!

Their new ceaselessly hostile album release, TORTURE, proves that when it comes to combining unrestrained maliciousness, involved song writing and technical precision they still have no equal. The twelfth full-length of their inspiring twenty-four year career, the Floridian quintet have never sounded so vital, the album building upon the wealth of powerful, dark, and memorable songs comprising 2006’s Kill and 2009’s Evisceration Plague and pointedly upping the ante at every turn.
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Tour News: Dead Letter Circus – Sleepwalker Australian Tour 2012 with Fair to Midland + Twelve Foot Ninja | May-June 2012

Dead Letter Circus (DLC) are pleased to announce the ‘SLEEPWALKER AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012’ with amazing special guests Fair to Midland (USA) and Twelve Foot Ninja (AUS). The Sleeper tour will take in 20 dates right around the country and DLC have hand picked two of their favourite rocking bands to make every show an epic event. After touring the US late last year alongside Fair To Midland, DLC were blown away by their musicianship, killer songs, and high intensity show, and can’t wait to bring the guys to Australia.

The momentum keeps building for DLC in the US with several key rock radio stations adding their single ‘One Step’ to rotation, and the band hitting #5 on the Taking Off radio chart this week. DLC are heading back to the US for showcase performances at SxSW in Austin and then onto a US East Coast and Canadian tour throughout April, dates and venue info coming soon. The band’s US label Sumerian Records are thrilled with the early radio success and the growth of the band in the market, and are certain to capitalise on the buzz building around the Dead Letter Circus record.
Continue reading Tour News: Dead Letter Circus – Sleepwalker Australian Tour 2012 with Fair to Midland + Twelve Foot Ninja | May-June 2012

Live Review: Stonefield @ Northcote Social Club, Melbourne – 24 April 2012

Review by Ben Connolly
There are a couple of caveats to make about Stonefield as they took to the stage at The Northcote Social Club. The first is that they are a band of young, impossibly cute sisters from country Victoria, all apart from singer/drummer Amy Findlay, able to lay claim to being teenagers. It’s abundantly clear at times, too, with their youth defying their position – furtive, self-conscious glances to each other through face-shielding long lanky locks, seeking silent approval and encouragement – never mind the packed room full of hopeful adoration right at their feet.

The second note is about the style of music they produce – 70’s era synth-heavy psych-influenced prog-rock straight from their parents vinyl collection. It’s a genre with a shaky recent history in the Australian rock scene, with name after name hailed in the UK press as the next great hope of rock music only to fall in a heap come time and critical analysis. It’s a hype seemingly mirrored in Stonefield’s already mythically-charged short history – plucked from their country-town garage, they won a slot at Perth’s One Movement industry event, where a band booker snapped them up to play on the John Peel stage at the holiest of holy grails, Glastonbury. All of this while still labouring under a short EP and doing the merry-go-round of Triple J’s perpetual Unearthed treadmill.
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Tour News: NICKI MINAJ “Pink Friday” Australian Tour – May 2012

Nicki Minaj, one of the hottest artists on the planet, and indisputably the biggest breakthrough artist of 2011, has announced that the PINK FRIDAY TOUR will land in Australia in May, taking in shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

2011 was an incredible year for Nicki, with her multi-platinum selling debut album PINKFRIDAY boasting the most charted singles by any female rap album in Billboard history. Nicki also became the first artist to have 7 singles on the Billboard HOT 100 chart simultaneously. She criss-crossed the US playing to massive sell-out audiences with friend and mentor Lil Wayne on the sold–out “I Am Music II” tour and then slayed audiences as the special guest on Britney Spear’s US tour. In addition to winning Best Hip Hop Video at the 2011 MTV Video MusicAwards along with Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Album and Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Artist at the 2011 American Music Awards, Nicki was recently nominated for three Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Album.
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Photo Gallery: THE GUM BALL Festival – 27-28th April 2012

Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater

Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater
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** TOUR CANCELLED ** DEVILDRIVER – Australian Tour – May 2012 ** TOUR CANCELLED **

AUSTRALIAN TOUR CANCELLED.

DEVILDRIVER vocalist Dez FaFara issued the following statement regarding their Australian Tour Cancellation:

I’ve NEVER cancelled a tour before. EVER…

I have Pneumonia and I’m restricted from flying for at least 2 weeks. So unfortunately we have to cancel our Australian tour.

I respectfully apologize to all our Australian fans, Six Feet Under; Darkest Hour and the folks at SW touring who worked so hard to put this tour together.

Thank you for your support. We’ll make it up to you on the next tour.” – Dez FaFara

Ticket holders can go back to the point of purchase for a refund.


DEVILDRIVER has always been a band on a three-pronged mission: Work hard, rock harder, and kick as many asses as possible in the process. Since their inception DEVILDRIVER have made a monstrous impact on the metal world with their thunderous grooves, haunting vocals and crushing live performances.

DEVILDRIVER tear through metal again with ‘Beast’, their 5th studio album an exorcism of animalistic primal hooks, death metal percussion and propulsive thrashing with Rocksound calling ‘Beast’ “pure fucking class” and Revolver magazine declaring “From the bowels of hell, DEVILDRIVER has unleashed a “Beast” that will leave a trail of bloody scars and broken bones wherever it may roam”.
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