
The Menzingers are back with the release of new album Hello Exile, announcing Australian shows for March 2020.
Continue reading The Menzingers Announce Australian Tour – March 2020The Menzingers are back with the release of new album Hello Exile, announcing Australian shows for March 2020.
Continue reading The Menzingers Announce Australian Tour – March 2020Off the back of a huge sold-out national headline tour, Australia’s elite metallers Northlane announce the 4D regional tour. The tour sees the band hitting up the east coast of Australia throughout January 2020 with special guests Gravemind and local triple j unearthed winners.
Continue reading Northlane Announce The 4D Regional Tour 2020Get ready for the biggest hard rock tour of the year! German icons SCORPIONS return to Australia in 2020 with WHITESNAKE, the legendary rock’n’roll band founded and formed by former Deep Purple singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Coverdale, for a double headline east coast arena tour starting at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday, February 19 before heading to Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday, February 22 and Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday, February 24.
Continue reading Scorpions And Whitesnake – Australian Tour 2020BAFTA award winning broadcaster, TV host, writer, environmentalist, amateur balloonist and storyteller. Kevin McCloud is all that and a bit more that you don’t know about. Now it’s time for him to tell his remarkable story – in his own words, live on stage. Kevin McCloud will be doing just that in February 2020 as he brings his live show to Australia.
Thu 13th February Perth Perth Concert Hall
Sat 15th February Adelaide Festival Theatre
Sun 16th February Melbourne Hamer Hall
Thu 20th February Brisbane Concert Hall
Fri 21st February Sydney State Theatre
Sun 23rd February Canberra Canberra Theatre
Tue 25th February Hobart Wrestpoint
Kevin has been a part of our lives for the past two decades, since the last millennium in fact, as the presenter of the hit TV show Grand Designs.
The World According to Kevin McCloud is a live theatre event, with Kevin sharing stories from the show, as well as anecdotes from his eventful life.
“Australia is an extraordinary place where luckily I feel very welcome,” Kevin says. “I like the can-do attitude that people have. It also has this fantastic energy about it, which is very appealing. So I’m looking forward to returning with my brand new show.”
It’s an evening that will entertain – and make you think. “I enjoy taking complex ideas and making them accessible,” Kevin says.
The World According to Kevin McCloud includes a Q&A session that allows audience members to ask Kevin questions and air their deep-seated concerns about architecture, DIY and cushions. Kevin will also dig into his own past in an entertaining survey of 1960s wallpaper, the Space Programme, McMansions, Community and the Planet. Everything that makes our environment in fact.
Raised in a house his parents built in Bedfordshire, Kevin, the son of a rocket scientist, studied the history of art and architecture at Cambridge, where he designed shows for the Footlights theatre club and its stars, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson.
Kevin also studied opera in Italy and designed the famous fruit and vegetable ceiling at the Harrods Food Hall, of all things. The Daily Mail described Kevin as a “heartthrob – the one your wives all fancy”, while The Guardian called him “a serious man of taste and integrity”. To prove that, he’s an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is now allowed to use grown-up scissors and power tools.
In a piece headed “Kevin McCloud Is, Hands Down, The Greatest TV Host of All Time”, VICE dubbed him “the most puzzlingly charismatic TV host ever to grace our screens … Kevin McCloud is a character. He’s the person you dream of being sat next to at an otherwise dull dinner party.” Kevin, however, objects to the word ‘puzzlingly’.
In short, The World According to Kevin McCloud gives you the chance to get up close and personal with the man himself. “Come one, come all,” Kevin says. “There’ll be some very poor music and maybe a little construction mayhem. No hard hat necessary. Hope to see you there.”
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KEVIN McCLOUD
Thu 13th February Perth Perth Concert Hall – BUY TICKETS HERE
Sat 15th February Adelaide Festival Theatre
Sun 16th February Melbourne Hamer Hall
Thu 20th February Brisbane Concert Hall
Fri 21st February Sydney State Theatre – BUY TICKETS HERE
Sun 23rd February Canberra Canberra Theatre
Tue 25th February Hobart Wrestpoint – BUY TICKETS HERE
via www.kevinmccloudlive.com.au
SIX things you might not know about Kevin McCloud
He studied opera and won a place at Florence’s Conservatory of Music.
After university, he retrained and worked as a theatre designer. He designed sets and costumes for the band Harvey and the Wallbangers and even a West End Show. Once.
He speaks French and Italian and has lived in both countries. There again, he describes himself as a
‘European first, Citizen of the World second, Honorary Yorkshireman third.’
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2014, for services to sustainable design.
His favourite piece of architecture might be the rebuilt facade of the library at Ephesus in Turkey.
He converted his Land Rover to run on recycled vegetable oil.
THE VANNS share new single ‘DERANGED’ from forthcoming debut album ‘THROUGH THE WALLS’ and announce extensive national tour
In less than 10 years, JINJER have carved their very own place in the Heavy Metal landscape and are poised to go even further in 2019 and beyond.
Continue reading Tour News : JINJER – Australian Tour 2020Sleaford Mods have announced they’re finally making their way to Australia playing a run of headline dates and festivals through February and March 2020.
Continue reading Tour News : SLEAFORD MODS – Australia 2020 TourThere’s nothing more Australian than hot sun, warm waves and Cold Chisel. The band’s classic songs like Khe Sanh, Flame Trees, Bow River, My Baby, Cheap Wine, Saturday Night and You Got Nothing I Want have become the soundtrack to our summers.
Continue reading Cold Chisel announce national summer concert tour!JOHN 5 is one of the most influential guitarists of our generation. Best known for his time in Marilyn Manson and as the current guitarist for Rob Zombie, JOHN 5 has been a guitar player for some of the biggest headlining rock bands in the world as well as playing session with Paul Stanley, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. Now JOHN 5 is heading to Australia, for his first ever solo shows here, to shred our nation to pieces thanks to Silverback Touring. Accompanying him is American blues-rock guitarist and singer JARED JAMES NICHOLS who is rated as one of the hottest players on the scene, also making his debut appearance in Australia.
Continue reading Tour News : JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES plus Jared James Nichols – April 2020 Australian TourOne of Australia’s most endearing and celebrated rock bands, Gyroscope, have just announced national tour dates and a self-produced new EP ‘4YRLV’ (pronounced ‘For Your Love’) – the first taste of music since their double A-side ‘Crooked Thought / DABS’ released in 2017.
Continue reading Tour News : Gyroscope ‘4YRLV’ Tour 2019Sally Cooper is an acoustic folk singer songwriter. She has a full flavoured vocal sound and her style is unfeigned, authentic and substantial. She draws influences from Jazz, Blues, Roots, Folk and world fusion music.
Continue reading Event News: Sally Cooper ‘Love Will Rise’ CD Launch – Brisbane – October 27thReview by Ben Woning
Judging by the ratio of sitting real estate v.s. standing, at The Amity Affliction’s Heaven and Hell festival, I’d say there’s a good chance we’ll see it back again next year, because like Frenzal said, ‘all we need is a punch in the face’, sonically that is.
As the ‘new festival kid on the block’, Heaven and Hell needed to deliver, and deliver it did, like an Uber Eats scooter on nitrous with bells on.
Continue reading Live Review : THE AMITY AFFLICTION – ‘Heaven and Hell’, Brisbane Riverstage – 14 September 2019