Category Archives: Melbourne

Tour News | Biffy Clyro are set to return to Australia in September!

Biffy-Clyro Scottish rock band, Biffy Clyro, have announced that they will return to Australia in September for a national headline tour. Having just finished touring on Soundwave Festival with two SOLD OUT headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne, punters should move quick to see the band in all major cities.

Biffy Clyro have firmly established themselves as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia. The album features radio hits Black Chandelier, Biblical and Sounds Like Balloons. The band just released an exclusive Australian Tour Edition of Opposites to support their recent appearance on Soundwave 2014. The tour edition is a 2CD pack including the standard version of Opposites plus ‘Opposites – Live From Glasgow’ featuring tracks from Opposites as well as Biffy classics – Mountains, Many Of Horror and Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies.
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Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, news, Perth, Sydney, tour

Boris The Blade announce The Desolation Tour

Boris

Melbourne’s BORIS THE BLADE are preparing to unleash their crushing debut album ‘The Human Hive’ on May 19, 2014.

‘The Human Hive’ is the eagerly anticipated debut full length that follows the devastating heavy EP ‘Tides Of Damnation’ which was released back in 2011.
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Adelaide, April 2014, Brisbane, Melbourne, news, Perth, Sydney, tour

Beth Hart announces Sydney and Melbourne shows – April 2014

110**** TOUR UPDATE ****
**** Second Sydney Show Added ***
Powerhouse singer-songwriter Beth Hart’s debut appearance on our shores has been welcomed with overwhelming demand and a second Sydney show has been added at The Basement on Sunday 13th of April. Tickets will be available from 9am Thursday 6th March 2014.

“sounding like Janis Joplin reincarnated with Stevie Nicks’s high-speed vibrato, (Beth) Hart turned the act of singing into an out-of-body experience” – Slant Magazine
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April 2014, Bluesfest, Melbourne, news, Sydney, tour

Anathema announce Australian Tour – August 2014

Plovdiv End of gig group shotAnathema’s Australian fans have been waiting patiently for almost 25 years and your innumerable emails and requests have finally borne fruit – Anathema are making their long awaited first visit to our shores!

Anathema have been at the forefront of the UK rock/metal movement for a long time. As influential pioneers of melodic heavy music, the band’s forward thinking, intellectual musicianship has earned them accolades such as Classic Rock’s 2010 and 2012 Prog Album of the Year (2010’s We’re Here Because We’re Here was mixed by progressive rock mainman Steven Wilson).
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Brisbane, Melbourne, news, Sydney, tour

Monster Magnet Announce 2014 Australian Tour Supports

KillRockStar Entertainment presents the 2014 Australian return of New Jersey stoner lords Monster Magnet!

**** Tour Update – Supports Announced! ****
Ahead of their upcoming Australian tour Monster Magnet have just named the full line up of local acts who will joining the space rock legends to blow minds across the country this April.

Main support in each city will come from two-piece hell raisers King Of The North. Since exploding onto the Melbourne music scene in early 2012 this guitar/drum duo have had punters and pundits alike raving about their massive sound and killer live shows. Pioneering the 3 from 1 guitar technique (making the sound of 2 guitars plus a bass guitar simultaneously from just one guitar), first timers are often left looking for the extra guitarists amidst the wall of sound. Add to the equation one of the most dynamic and solid drummers around and you have a rock n roll band like no other and one of the country’s most exciting new acts.
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April 2014, Brisbane, Melbourne, news, Perth, Sydney, tour

Live Review | Placebo @ Palais Theatre, Melbourne – February 27, 2014

Review by Ben Connolly
Photos by Annie Wilson
PlaceboIn the great lottery of the Sidewave venue scramble, Placebo must surely have pulled the short straw. Not that St Kilda’s Palais Theatre is generally anything to be disappointed with – its grungy dilapidation holds a special place in Melbourne’s rock vernacular. But when it comes to a furious set by one of the world’s best emotive post-punk purveyors, those torn leather seats are just woeful.

Seated gigs are sometimes just the pits, with often fickle gig-going punters varying between reckless abandon and a studied aloofness, meaning that on any given night you can find yourself jumping to your heart’s content surrounded by fellow revellers, or having to reign in your exuberance or suffer the fate of a thousand daggers shot your way.
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Ben Connolly, February 2014, Live Review, Melbourne, Review, Soundwave

Live Review | Something For Kate + The Orbweavers @ Melbourne Zoo Twilights – February 21, 2014

Review by Ben Connolly
Something For Kate Melb ZooGig talkers are just the pits aren’t they? The bane of any true fans, their inanities strike at the most inopportune of moments, ruining a classic heart on the sleeve moment or a strained high-note, in spite of the daggers of ice being shot across the room, or even the indignant ‘shushing’ from those more forthright in their opinions. Things get a little swayed, however, when those interrupting the moments are three fully grown lions displaying their pleasure/displeasure in no uncertain terms.

And that’s exactly the bizarre set of circumstances thrown up at you when your Friday night gig is set in the heart of one of Melbourne’s most treasured inner-city reserves – the Royal Melbourne Zoo. Its Zoo Twilight series is now in full swing, hosting fellow Melbournites Something For Kate on its current swing around the country playing on specialist outdoor stages. Wedged in between the entrance and the lion’s den, the stage area is a beautiful vista of sunset-tinged greenery interspersed with picnic blankets and a solid smattering of baby capsules.
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Ben Connolly, February 2014, Live Review, Melbourne, Review

Photo Gallery | Jimmy Eat World + Panic! at the Disco + Alkaline Trio | The Forum, Melbourne | February 25, 2014

Photographer: Calvin Cropley – www.CalvinCropley.com
Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, Panic At The Disco Live @ The Fo
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Calvin Cropley, February 2014, Melbourne, Photos, Soundwave