One of Australia’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, the multiple ARIA Award winning Alex Lloyd, has today announced his first tour back in Australia since moving abroad in 2008 which will see Lloyd and his full band playing shows along the East Coast of Australia throughout November/December in support of his new album Urban Wilderness on the Urban Wilderness Tour.

The Urban Wilderness Tour will follow the 18 October release of Lloyd’s long awaited new album, Urban Wilderness. Featuring songs of family and romance with tracks written across the globe, Urban Wilderness will be released five years on from his last solo effort, 2008’s Good In The Face Of A Stranger. Urban Wilderness is 12 tracks of pure, pop-tinged song craft on which Lloyd is ably assisted by fellow artists Shane Nicholson and Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil).
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October 13, 1978 – Billy Joel released his sixth studio album “52nd Street”. Three songs from the album reached the Top 40 in the United States. “My Life” (#3), “Big Shot” (#14), and “Honesty” (#24)

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The Maheno, the most famous of the Fraser Island wrecks, was driven ashore just north of Happy Valley during a cyclone in 1935. Once a well-known trans-Tasman liner, the Maheno was bound for a Japanese wrecking yard when she met her stormy end. Today the hull lies slowly deteriorating in the harsh salt environment, about 10 kilometres north of Happy Valley and is now a major tourist attraction.

Maheno Shipwreck is an absolute “Must See” when visiting Fraser Island.

How did the Maheno became a shipwreck
On 3 July 1935 the Maheno left Sydney under tow by the 1,758 ton ship Oonah, a former Tasmanian Steamers Pty. Ltd. Bass Strait ferry, built in 1888, which along with the Maheno had been sold to an Osaka shipbreaker. The ships were linked by a 900-foot (270 m) 6.75-inch (17.1 cm) wire rope.

On the afternoon of 7 July, while about 50 miles from the coast, the towline parted during a severe cyclone. Attempts to reattach the towline failed in the heavy seas, and the Maheno, with eight men aboard, drifted off and disappeared. The Oonah, with her steering gear temporarily disabled, broadcast a radio message requesting assistance for the Maheno, whose propellers had been removed.

The ship was finally found on 10 July by an aircraft piloted by Keith Virtue, beached off the coast of Fraser Island. The crew of the Maheno set up camp onshore, waiting for the Oonah to arrive, which it eventually did on 12 July. The ship was subsequently stripped of her fittings, but attempts to refloat her failed, and eventually the wreck was offered for sale, but found no buyers.

Since then, much of the ship has either been destroyed or disintegrated, and the visible remainder has become severely rusted.

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The Frontier Touring Company has announced that Vampire Weekend are coming to Melbourne and Sydney this January for two special summer headline shows!

Following a wildly entertaining set at Australia’s acclaimed Big Day Out Festival in January, the band is ready to make the return trip Down Under in 2014 for two special headlining shows in Melbourne and Sydney on January 6th and 8th, respectively. This announcement comes after the band recently confirmed their appearance at The Falls Music & Arts Festival in Marion Bay, Lorne and Byron Bay at the end of 2013.
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The Frontier Touring Company has announced that two of the world’s most influential bands of the last decade, Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age, will join forces for a massive double headline tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2014!

In what could arguably be described as one of the biggest double bills to ever reach our shores, QOTSA and NIN, joined by special guest Brody Dalle, will kick off this explosive tour at Sydney Entertainment Centre on Thursday March 6th 2014 and continue on around the country visiting Newcastle, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland and Christchurch.

With the first headline band on stage being decided each night by the toss of a coin, fans will want to make sure they’re at the ready for a big night from the minute doors open.
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Icehouse – We Can Get Together (Aus Version)

Icehouse – Can’t Help Myself
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Multi-layered harmonies, loops, songs of family and romance, tracks written across the globe: Urban Wilderness is the long-awaited return of one of Australia’s most acclaimed songwriters, Alex Lloyd. Five years on from his last solo effort, 2008’s Good In The Face Of A Stranger, Urban Wilderness is 12 tracks of pure, pop-tinged song craft, the 4x ARIA-winner finally returning home after 5 years living abroad.

Organic and with a bit of a dirty polish under its skin, Urban Wilderness is the sound of Alex Lloyd doing things his way: take the swagger of opener “Black Cat”, the piano-led pop of “Wait Too Long”, or the singalong lilt of “Light On You”. “I feel like it’s a good record, I’m not shy about saying that,” he states. “Everyone did a great job.”
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Life, death, love, Dr Seuss, inner city hipsters – they’re just some of the themes behind what could easily be one of the most fascinating releases of the year as Brisbane’s ASTRID & THE ASTEROIDS prepare to launch their new self-titled EP.

The surprise packet of the local music scene, the band has spent the past 12 months carving out an enviable reputation thanks to their blend of pop, soul, jazz and front woman Astrid Jorgenson’s stunning vocal range.
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