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Festival of the Sun 2010 @ Port Macquarie on 10-11 December 2010 [Festival News]

FOTSUN 2010 – Don’t. Miss. This.
***Keep an eye out for LIFE MUSIC MEDIA’s coverage of the Festival Of The Sun 2010***

Festival of the Sun 2010 is set to blow Port Macquarie half way to Auckland. Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park will this year host Platinum selling artists, multiple Aria Award winners and nominees, internationally acclaimed funk/soul revivalists and the absolute cream of national and local talent. So be your penchant for roots, indie, rock, blues, acoustic or everything in between, you’re going to have to be quick to snap up tickets for this year’s killer line-up. It is easily the biggest yet!
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Halloween Monster Mash @ Metro Theatre, Sydney 30 October 2010 featuring Dappled Cities, Spod, Last Dinosaurs, The Laurels, Guineafowl and Magnetic Heads – Live Review

Review: Natalie Salvo

Burlesque dancers, sword-swallowing freaks, fire-breathing entertainers and a human vending machine – there was all this and a bunch of coffins, jack-o-lanterns, cobwebs, skulls, fake axes and faux blood from similarly false severed limbs at the Halloween Monster Mash on Halloween Eve at the Metro Theatre. The event was a surreal presentation that was not strictly a concert, kind of like a mini-festival but with better costumes and greater audience participation.
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Island Vibe Festival 2010 – North Stradbroke Island, Queensland Australia – October 29-31, 2010 – Photo Gallery

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Bluesfest 2011 unveils joy and wonderment with signature super 1st artist announcement!


Has the Australian Event of the Year just initiated the music Lineup of the Year?

November 04th 2010 – Bluesfest from Byron Bay, Australia‟s favourite counter-culture, family-orientated, ethnically and artistically diverse music festival, has today announced a whopper of a signature first artist announcement – and it’s the first of many! Tickets are on sale now for Bluesfest – which just won the Australian Event of the Year for Bluesfest 2010 – and festival dates next year over Easter are from Thursday April 21 through to Monday April 25, 2011.

Once again, Bluesfest 2011 offers its passionate fans a very tasty – almost holy – array of simply the best local and international blues and roots music with its renowned blend of multi-genre, multi-demographic and multi-generational sounds.

Let’s get the party started! The first Bluesfest announcement for 2011 includes:

  Bob Dylan, B.B. King, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Cat Empire, Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Aaron Neville, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Fistful of Mercy, Mavis Staples, Xavier Rudd, Trinity Roots, Kate Miller-Heidke, Washington,

Little Bushman, Tony Joe White, Indigo Girls, Eric Bibb, Ash Grunwald, Ruthie Foster, C.W. Stoneking, Jeff Lang, Saltwater Band, and RocKwiz Live.
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Airbourne @ The Hi-Fi, Melbourne 31st October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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IRON MAIDEN – AROUND THE WORLD IN 66 DAYS…..

  AROUND THE WORLD IN 66 DAYS…..
And Landing in Australia on Ed Force One!!!

Following on from the recent announcement of IRON MAIDEN’s Australian tour dates in February and March 2011, we can now reveal that the band, along with their crew and many tons of equipment, will be arriving into Australia onboard Ed Force One –a customized Boeing 757 – on their continuing mammoth Final Frontier World Tour! Once again piloted by lead singer and qualified Airline Captain Bruce Dickinson, the plane will be flying 50,000 miles round the globe, playing 29 shows and visiting 26 cities in thirteen countries across 5 continents heading into more new Frontiers of uncharted Maiden territory!!!

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Blue King Brown @ Pier Hotel Frankston, Victoria w/ Feed your Munkie – 29 October 2010 – Photo Gallery

Photographer: Annie Wilson – Amped Photography
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Brian Wilson, America @ Brisbane Riverstage – 30 October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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Peter Frampton, Chicago @ Brisbane Riverstage 30 October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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Tool announce Big Day Out sideshows in Brisbane and Melbourne!

  Lees & West proudly present TOOL

Touring Down Under for the first time in four years, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor take a break from the studio where they have been working on a follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days to share their “primal, poignant, poetic and as always utterly powerful” (ARTISTdirect, July 2010) music with Aussie music fans.

Formed in Los Angeles at the dawn of the ’90s, TOOL first caused tremors in 1993, with their debut album Undertow going platinum, winning praise for its dynamic take on metal and causing controversy with striking videos .for Sober and Prison Sex. Ænima followed in 1996 and Lateralus in 2001, both winning Grammys, taking the band further down a mind-bending rabbit-hole of artful and progressive alternative rock and inspiring an unwavering devotion in their ever-swelling audience.
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The Angels, Noiseworks @ Hard Rock 600 Sounds – 23 October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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James Reyne, Mondo Rock @ Hard Rock 600 Sounds – 23 October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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Soilwork @ Manning Bar, Sydney – 22nd October 2010 – Photo Gallery

Photographer: Ben Hosking

Soilwork at Manning Bar, Sydney – 22 October 2010

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The Beach Boys and Baby Animals @ Hard Rock 600 Sounds 23rd October 2010 – Photo Gallery

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Pennywise and Millencolin – Melbourne Sidewave announced!

  A punk rock Hall of Fame band if there ever was one, the story of PENNYWISE is hardly done.

With a brash new chapter of the band’s story unfolding before our very eyes. PENNYWISE doesn’t play by the rules; it plows straight ahead and makes its own. Its relentless, in-your-face, middle finger in the air, anthem-chanting sound has never wavered one iota.

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