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THE SCRIPT returning to Australian & New Zealand arenas in April/May 2015 with special guest Labrinth

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Frontier Touring welcome back multi-platinum selling band The Script to Australia and New Zealand to play a string of arena shows in April and May 2015!

The Dublin-raised, London-based trio – Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power – are no strangers to Australia, having sold out multiple arena shows on their previous visits and currently in the country on a whirlwind visit promoting their new album No Sound Without Silence (out now through Sony).
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TOUR UPDATE: ED KOWALCZYK – Brisbane & 2nd Sydney Shows Added – ‘I Alone Acoustic Tour’ 2014

edAfter selling out the previously announced Australian shows and adding an extra show in Sydney, ED KOWALCZYK will extend the ‘I Alone Acoustic Tour’ this November to include Brisbane due to the overwhelming demand from his dedicated Queensland fans.

The legendary songwriter and former lead-singer of the multi-platinum rock band, Live, Ed will perform a set of breathtaking solo-acoustic headline shows, now kicking off at The Tivoli in Brisbane on November 5.

Tickets for this show go on sale at 10am Friday, October 17 and are strictly limited.
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THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Bluesfest 2015 Sideshows Announced

chrisThe former Black Crowes front-man’s Chris Robinson brings his Brotherhood which “boast a vintage rock vibe that’s at once quirky, trippy, soulful and downright magnetic.”- US Rolling Stone

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood was formed in 2011 and will be bringing their own brand of Rock and Roll, full of grooves Psychedelia and killer vocals on their first Australian tour in 2015.
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TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE – Bluesfest 2015 Sideshows Announced

tromboneNew Orleans based Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue are a hard-edged Funk band that employ Hip-Hop beats, Rock dynamics and improvisation in a Jazz tradition. The band has toured the U.S. and Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia and Brazil. Trombone Shorty began his career as a bandleader at the tender age of six, and toured internationally for the first time age 12 before joining Lenny Kravitz’s horn section at 19 for a 105-date world tour in 2005/06.
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GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC – Bluesfest 2015 Sideshows Announced

georgeThe legendary George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, one of the most important innovators of Funk music alongside James Brown, Sly Stone and the Funky Meters, brings the ‘awe-funk-some’ P-Funk Collective back to Australia & New Zealand next year!

Known globally for his outlandish costume and his multi-coloured dreadlocks as well as his mastery of intergalactic funk, Dr. George Clinton is one of the most sampled musicians on the planet and has worked alongside Tupac, Primal Scream, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dog, Outkast, Wu Tang Clan, Carlos Santana, Redman and so many others as collaborator and producer.
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G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE – Bluesfest 2015 Sideshows Announced

g.loveAll the way from Philadelphia USA, the original line up of G. Love & Special Sauce are making their triumphant return! 20 years after the release of their self-titled debut album and 8 years since their last live performance together, the original line up of G. Love & Special Sauce arrive on the back of their 2014 album Sugar, breathing new life into their groove-heavy, Chicago-Blues infused brand of stripped down Rock and Roll. With the influences of Elmore James, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Lou Reed, the band has stripped themselves back to the old-school air of their first record with a mature and developed instrumentation without losing any of the unique, funky American Blues vibes that were the foundation of the bands success.
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BETH HART – Bluesfest 2015 Sideshows Announced

bethAfter her mind blowing 2014 Australian tour, power house vocalist Beth Hart will be returning to Australian shores to turn the art of singing into an out-of-body experience – she is simply world class and boasts A-list collaborations with the likes of Jeff Beck, Slash, Buddy Guy and Joe Bonamassa.

Beth has ridden incredible highs and heart-breaking lows in the past, but these days she’s reaching new career heights including her nomination for a Blues Music Award in the category: Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist in 2014 and a Grammy nomination with Joe Bonamassa in 2014 for their album Seesaw, which went number 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, as did their most recent release Live In Amsterdam.
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Tour News | UB40 – 2014 Australian Tour

ub40One World Entertainment are pleased to announce the return to Australia of one of the world’s greatest reggae bands, UB40. With their distinctive sound and multitude of hits that have topped the charts across the world, the much-loved group will commence their tour in Perth on December 5th, before stopping in Brisbane and Sydney, and finishing in Melbourne on December 11th as part of their current world tour.

UB40 are Britain’s greatest reggae artists and have survived more than 30 years in the music business and have clocked up more than 40 million record sales worldwide with songs like Kingston Town and Red, Red Wine.
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2014 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra | Nominated artists revealed

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With less than seven weeks until the 2014 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) today announced the nominees in all categories, with the winners to be announced at The Star, Sydney on Wednesday, November 26, 2014.
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KONGOS Announce Australian Tour Dates

unnamedKONGOS are pleased to announce their first Australian dates with very special guests KINGSWOOD. The four sons of South African singer John Kongos (whose song ‘He’s Gonna Step On You Again’ was the basis for The Happy Mondays’ ‘Step On’) have been making waves of their own as a family band, scaling the US charts with their million-selling single ‘Come With Me Now’.

This US smash-hit single spent five consecutive weeks at no.1 on the Billboard Alternative Chart in America, beating Lorde’s ‘Royals’ in the process to become the fastest-ever ascent to Number One by a debut artist in US chart history.
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2015 St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Line-up Announced!

laneway15Prepare yourselves for the 2015 Laneway Festival line-up, one of our favourites yet.

Traversing seven cities and three countries, the festival is well and truly settled into its home in each state. From the sparkling backdrop of the Maribyrnong and Port Rivers in Melbourne and Adelaide, the beachside location in Fremantle, the historic grounds of Sydney College of The Arts and our brand new home in Brisbane, the event is a true highlight on the Singapore, New Zealand and Australian music calendars.
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Q&A with Hannah Rosa

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Brisbane songstress Hannah Rosa has taken time out from her own Headline Tour of South East Queensland to answer a few questions for Life Music Media.

:: What track changed your life ::

This is a pretty big call… Off the top of my head I’d probably have to say ‘Space They Cannot Touch’ by Kate Miller Heidke. I saw her perform at Woodford Folk Festival when I was a kid and she is a major reason I started writing songs.

:: What is your favourite Album ::

I actually don’t have one all-time favourite album! It changes all the time. My more recent faves include Megan Washington’s “There There”, Lucy Rose’s “Like I Used To” and Lorde’s “Pure Heroine”.
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Live Review | Reece Mastin – ‘Wolf In The Woods’ Tour @ Newcastle Panthers – September 26, 2014

Review by David Jackson

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The Newcastle Panthers auditorium was full of young eager fans on Friday night ready to rock out with Reece Mastin.

Supporting Reece is three piece outfit “The Kin”. This band is solid and entertaining, the fact the drummer does not use sticks, they have no bass and the band opted to move the show to the floor which looked more like a religious chant than a concert only added to the night.
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MARIAH CAREY “THE ELUSIVE CHANTEUSE SHOW” WORLD TOUR – Australian Dates 2014

mariahOn the heels of the most critically acclaimed album of her career, ‘Me. I am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse,’ the best-selling female artist of all time, MARIAH CAREY, has confirmed Australian dates, extending her previously announced “The Elusive Chanteuse Show” world tour.

Mariah will play six exclusive dates in Australia, commencing November 2, 2014 at Perth’s Sandalford Estate, and then followed by indoor arena shows in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
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The Kooks – Australia Tour Announced – January 2015

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Chugg Entertainment and XIII Touring can confirm that Brit-pop revivalists, The Kooks, will be returning to Australia for their most monstrous tour of the antipodes to date. Starting in Perth on Saturday 17th January at the Belvoir Amphitheatre, the tour then takes in Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday 20th January, Brisbane’s Riverstage on Friday 23rd January and wrapping things up at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Saturday 24th January.
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