Brisbane Festival today announced the date for the iconic Sunsuper Riverfire would move to Saturday 29 September 2012 to close the annual arts festival with a bang.

The date change accommodates September’s packed events calendar and brings Queensland’s favourite fireworks display into the school holiday period, making it easier for families from regional centres to attend.

Brisbane Festival Artistic Director Noel Staunton said the main festival dates previously announced have not changed.

“This year, Brisbane Festival will be held from 8 to 29 September, the only event that will move is Sunsuper Riverfire,” he said.

“As the city’s biggest night of the year, it will be a brilliant closing event for Brisbane’s largest festival and will allow everyone to attend.”

Brisbane Festival will open on Saturday 8 September with the laser light show Santos City of Lights, which promises to be more spectacular than ever and will run nightly for the three weeks of the Festival thanks to the support of Events Queensland and Santos.

Three weeks later Brisbane Festival’s closing celebrations will kick off at 1pm with free entertainment including 104.5 Triple M’s live broadcast. For those celebrating at home, Channel Nine’s exclusive live coverage of Sunsuper Riverfire will start from 6.30pm.

Brisbane Festival, which is an initiative of the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council and supported by Principal Partner Channel Nine, will boast an exciting program of music, theatre, dance, free entertainment and much more.

Sunsuper Riverfire Saturday 29 September 2012

Visit Brisbane Festival for full details.

Hot on the heels of new single “Nothing To Do”, the Gold Coast’s garage-pop bombshells Bleeding Knees Club are psyched to announce their Australian album-release tour dates throughout April.

The extensive run immediately follows their UK and USA album-release tour which includes NME and Vice parties in London, New York and LA club dates and a swag of key South By Southwest showcases. Joined by fellow Queensland slackers Dune Rats, the Australian run also includes first visits to some regional areas and special all ages matinee performances.

“Nothing To Do” is released via IOHYOU on 2nd March. It’s an album that neatly encapsulates everything that’s made the world fall in love with Bleeding Knees Club these past 18 months : it’s a raw ‘n’ urgent set of super-fun songs about girls, getting high, and sticking it to The Man.
Continue reading Tour News: BLEEDING KNEES CLUB – “Nothing To Do” – Australian Tour | April 2012 →

Confirming Facebook posts earlier this week, British glam rock sensations, The Darkness would like to officially announce their Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Australian 2012 tour dates.

It’s been four years since The Darkness toured here, and in 2012 Australian fans will be graced with the original line up of Justin Hawkins (vocals/ guitar), Dan Hawkins (guitars/ backing vocals), Frankie Poullain (bass), and Ed Graham (drums), following their reunion in 2011.

“…heroically reunited, with a returned sense of funand still this millennium’s most multi-dimensionally entertaining live rock show.” LA Weekly
Continue reading Tour News: The Darkness “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us” Australian Tour – May 2012 →

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We here at Karnivool HQ are more than pleased to announce that the 10 legged beast that is Karnivool has now arisen from it’s slumbers, and has plans to get a little festive with their fans on the “ Melodias Frescas” tour which will see the band hit the highways through June and July. Yes folks, the “Melodias Frescas” tour, translation “Fresh Tunes”, will reveal to the world some of the band’s new material which has been agonised over in Perth over the past year. Tickets for Karnivool’s “Melodias Frescas” tour are on sale now!!

But wait… You ask. What have they been up to since last spotted in Oz?

Since Karnivool’s last Australian jaunt (a year ago), most of the time has been spent with various members taking a little bit of time off the road, or on the road with other projects, as well as tinkering around in a studio in Perth putting the bits and pieces of Karnivool’s third album together. The global success of “Sound Awake” meant nearly three years of touring globally, so it was definitely time for a little breather.
Continue reading Tour News: KARNIVOOL – “Melodias Frescas” Tour | June-July 2012 →

This week kicks off the tour between two of Australia’s finest bands. The indie-country-soul of Texas Tea with the 9-piece folk/rock/drinking songs collective The Gin Club.

It’s been almost two years since the release of Deathwish, The Gin Club’s critically acclaimed fourth album. Since then, the band (and their various side projects) have been busy. They’ve toured the country numerous times, done their traditional Christmas shows and relocated to every corner of the country (and the globe). Now, the nine-piece collective are set to release their first-ever live album, appropriately titled The Gin Club Live. Completely funded through crowd sourcing site IndieGoGo, the band raised over $8000 from fan pledges alone. The album has been assembled from a stockpile of shows recorded over their eight year history, including: a pair at the East Brunswick Club in Melbourne; their three CD launches at Brisbane’s Troubadour in 2010; a few festival appearances; and their set at The Troubadour’s last-ever night. Available now for purchase and streaming from The Gin Club Bandcamp page (http://theginclub.bandcamp.​com).
Continue reading Tour News: The Gin Club and Texas Tea – Co-Headline Tour | March/April 2012 →

Front man of genre bending Australian Hip Hop collaboration 1200 Techniques, N’fa Jones is set to launch his brand new solo EP Babylondon with four very special performances.

Six years in the making, get set to wrap your ears around the full force of Babylondon, offering four solid mixes of hip hop driven beats and cool melodies including recent single ‘Wayooy’ (feat. Roots Manuva and M-Phazes) and follow up new single ‘March On’. The EP also features ‘7 Seconds’ ft Tyson McVey (Daughter of Neneh Cherry) – with production by First Man (UK) and an unexpected deep soul cut named ‘Deeper Love’ that will be sure to have you dancing in the sand – with production by Jimmy Napes (UK).
Continue reading Tour News: N’FA JONES – ‘Babylondon’ EP Tour – March/April 2012 →