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Live Review: KNOTFEST, Sydney 2025

by Krista Melsom – Kristabella Photography

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Knotfest isn’t just a festival—it’s a gathering of a family bound by a love for heavy music, unity, and pure, unfiltered energy. From the moment you step through the gates, there’s an unspoken understanding: this is a place where you can be unapologetically yourself. There’s no judgement here, only acceptance, camaraderie, and a shared passion for the music that fuels us. Whether you’re a pit veteran or a first timer embracing the chaos, you’re welcomed with open arms. I was lucky enough to be a part of the family for the final stop in Sydney.

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Live Review + Photos: TROY REDFERN at Temperance, Leamington Spa UK – 1st March 2025

Photos by Peter Coates – https://www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

A scintillating slide guitarist from the Welsh Marches in the UK, Troy Redfern exhibits a technical prowess and reckless passion in his playing, even when in an intimate venue with a capacity crowd of about 50! He said it would be a pretty stripped back performance tonight, and then proceeded to rip through a blistering couple of sets, accompanied by the percussion of Nicky Waters on snare and tom.

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Parkway Drive Announce A Once-In-A-Lifetime Experience Performing Live at the Sydney Opera House with a Full Symphonic Orchestra – June 2025

From Byron Bay surf-rats to global festival headliners, PARKWAY DRIVE have spent two decades carving out an astonishing reputation, with millions of tickets, sold out shows across the world, and a legion of devoted fans in their ever-growing wake. But in 2025, PARKWAY DRIVE are yet again levelling up their live show to unimaginable new heights, returning to home soil to share a once-in-a-lifetime experience with their local Australian fans and global diehards alike, with the revered metal act today announcing a one-off live performance this June; it’s PARKWAY DRIVE as you’ve never seen them before, performing for the first time with a full symphonic orchestra against the backdrop of an Australian and international icon, the Sydney Opera House.

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Short Stack Announce Supports For 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black Tour

SHORT STACK
ANNOUNCE SUPPORT ACTS FOR
15 YEARS OF STACK IS THE NEW BLACK
AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR

Ladies & Gentlemen…beloved Budgewoi trio SHORT STACK are thrilled to today unveil the support acts for their 15 Years Of Stack Is The New Black tour set to sway across the country this June.

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Yours and Owls Festival 2025 Adds More Artists

Yours & Owls Festival 
Welcomes 
Courteeners || Shame

Armlock ||Kobie Dee ||Becca Hatch || Sugar Free
Autumn Sunset || Cheeky Leash || giraffeHead ||
Lemonise || L.O.W || Sevilles

Yours and Owls is a 16+ event. 

March 1st & 2nd, 2025 Wollongong Foreshore, South Beach, Dharawal Country 
Tickets On Sale Now via  yoursandowlsfestival.com.au


  yoursandowlsfestival.com.au 

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Tour News: CHERIE CURRIE Announces Her Final Australian Tour – September 2025

The legendary voice of The Runaways is back for one last electrifying tour Down Under in September 2025.

Australian rock and punk fans, prepare to witness history! Cherie Currie, the trailblazing rock icon and former front-woman of the groundbreaking band The Runaways, has announced her final Australian tour. This marks the first time Currie has graced Australian stages since her debut Australian tour in 2016—and it will be her last!

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KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA 2025 – SIDESHOWS!

KNOTFEST, the destination festival brand curated by SLIPKNOT, is returning to Australia this year, and today we are thrilled to announce a horde of headline sideshows from some of the artists on the festival lineup.

In addition to their entirely sold out Adelaide headline sideshow, SLIPKNOT will also headline in Auckland on Tuesday 11 March, while A DAY TO REMEMBER are set to perform a one and only Australian headline show in Brisbane on Monday 3 March.

BABYMETALSLAUGHTER TO PREVAILWITHIN TEMPTATIONENTER SHIKARIHATEBREEDMISS MAY IVENDED and SUNAMI will also perform their own headline sideshows this year, with the hill-hiking, metal music-loving stand up comic LUKE SEVEREID also set to head down under all the way from Seattle as part of KNOTFEST, interviewing bands at the festival and also performing his own sideshows.

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Tour News: The Waifs – Australian Regional Tour 2025

Following the success of their recent Australia-wide, sold-out fifty-date ‘Up All Night’ 25th Anniversary album tour, The Waifs continue to forge a proudly independent path with no sign of slowing down. The band are thrilled to add additional regional shows to their 2025 touring plans as well as a slew of appearances at the nationally touring SummerSalt series.

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Tour News: Burning Witches – Australia – May 2025

SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & BRISBANE!
Join us in MAY 2025 to welcome this fiery coven to our sunburnt shores, for their very first time in Australia!

Burning Witches are a Swiss Heavy/Power Metal band, founded in 2015 by rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl. Burning Witches are Romana on rhythm, bassist Jeanine Grob, drummer Lala Frischknecht, singer Laura Guldemond and guitarist Courtney Cox.

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Tour News: Sex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter – Australia And New Zealand Tour April 2025

 In August 2024, Frank Carter joined Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock of Sex Pistols for one of the most surprising and adored music events of the year. Members of one of the most influential rock bands of all time, plus life-long fan and modern-day punk icon Carter, performed the Sex Pistols’ iconic 1977 album Never Mind The Bollocks in full.

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Tyler Hilton announces supports for Australian 2025 tour

Photo Credit: Ryan Forsythe 

Tyler Hilton’s long-awaited Australian tour is just around the corner, with the U.S, favourite set to perform along the East Coast this February. Bringing his acclaimed catalogue of music, including 2024’s NO MAN’S LAND EP, to fans for his first shows since 2017, Hilton is ready and raring to go when it comes to reconnecting with the Australian fanbase and meeting newcomers to the fold with the release of his latest project.

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