Sleepmakeswaves Album Launch @ East Brunswick Club, Melbourne – 22 July 2011 | Live Review

Review – Billy Geary

  SleepMakesWaves are one of Australia’s best up and coming bands, of any genre. Thus, when the band’s debut LP …and so we destroyed everything was announced for release, along with an accompanying tour, there was a suitable amount of excitement around Melbourne town for what would be the band’s first headline show in the city. Punters at the East Brunswick Club were treated to a great showcase of post rock from some of Australia’s most promising talent.

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ROD STEWART – ‘The Hits’ Australian Tour – February 2012

  With forty years of chart-topping singles and albums under his belt, The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to announce that Rod Stewart will be rocking his incredible ‘The Hits’ tour on stages in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne as well as two special concerts at Hope Estate Winery in the Hunter Valley and Hanging Rock in the Macedon Ranges.

Having a phenomenal 62 hit singles in the UK, of which 31 reached the top 10, concert goers

can expect to be treated to the likes of Tonight’s the Night, Maggie May, You Wear It Well, Stay With Me, The First Cut Is the Deepest, Sailing, Hot Legs, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy…the list of Rod Stewart’s chart-toppers goes on and on. And if past tours are anything to go by Rod will smash out hit after hit live with his trademark style and panache, treating fans to a massive trip down memory lane and one hell of a night out.
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The Get Up Kids Australian Tour Supports Announced!

  CITY RIOTS have kicked many musical goals since their inception in late 2008. Triple J play? Check. SXSW? Check. CMJ Music Marathon? Check. For this indie-pop band, this is only the beginning. It seems things arenʼt letting up for the Adelaide four-piece with this year in full swing, with CITY RIOTS set to show off their wares supporting THE GET UP KIDS nationwide.

Way too many quiet parts mixed with way too many loud bits and you have the basic recipe to all things WE SET SAIL. With a 3rd and 4th release due out before the end of 2011, the Brisbane four-piece will be gracing the stage as opening support for THE GET UP KIDS. In Sydney, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP are currently gearing up to release their highly anticipated debut full-length album and bringing their live set to The Metro.
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FloatingMe, Electric Horse, Forever the Optimist @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 23 July 2011 | Photo Gallery

Photographer: Stuart Blythe

Photographer: Stuart Blythe – stuartblythe.com

Artists: FloatingMe
Electric Horse – www.facebook.com/electrichorse – www.facebook.com/pages/Floating-Me/144012038959446
>Forever the Optimist – www.facebook.com/forevertheoptimistmusic
Venue: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Date: 23 July 2011

READ OUR REVIEW – A Thousand Reasons Tour @ The Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne – 16 July 2011 | Live Review
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ASH GRUNWALD – Road Dog Diaries National Tour | July-September 2011

  APRA Award winning Ash Grunwald is making a documentary about life on the road and he wants you to be in it! One of Australia’s most dedicated road dogs, Ash spends his life driving along the white line delivering packages of aural delight to towns and cities around the world. If he is not at the end of his guitar bashing out a tune, you will most likely find him out the back of the closest surf break. In August, Ash will be merging his two great loves, bringing a festival of music and art to a town near you!

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BACK TO THE TOP 2011 – Featuring Polar Nation

  If you’ve spent any time at all in the Australian Alpine Resorts over the last decade it’s likely that you’ve stumbled across the ‘Back To The Top’ tour at one point. Now in its thirteenth year ‘Back To The Top’ has firmly established itself as the major calendar event in alpine entertainment, touching an incredibly diverse audience in rural, metro, urban and alpine regions of Victoria and New South Wales.

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MISSION TO LAUNCH festival in Canberra this NYE – 31 December 2011

CANBERRA, prepare for take-off! For the first time ever, Mission To Launch is bringing the party of the year to the nation’s capital for an outdoor NYE celebration in Weston Park. The mandate? To shake-up Canberra like it’s never been shaken before!

Party from dusk ‘till the break of the New Year, to the freshest sounds from some of the best party-starting DJs and bands around, playing everything from dance and electronic, to pop, rock and hip-hop.
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Stonefield Announce National Tour ‘Black Water Rising’ – Aug/Sep 2011

  From humble beginnings in a rural Victorian shed, to impressing thousands of new fans in the UK – Stonefield have well and truly arrived and to celebrate the four Findlay sisters are about to embark on their first Australian national tour.

The Stonefield live performance needs to be seen! Their home-grown psychedelic rock blew everyone away recently at the world’s most famous music festival – Glastonbury, where the girls performed on the John Peel Stage (famously dedicated to the promotion of new and emerging bands) , exposing them to a legion of new fans and their international peers.

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FRANCHITTI BACK ON THE GOLD COAST – THE OTHER ONE!

The name Franchitti has become synonymous with the Armor All Gold Coast 600 for many years and it will be back again in October!

  Dario Franchitti won the Champ Car race on the streets of Surfers Paradise in 1999 and returned last year to co-drive with Steve Johnson at Jim Beam Racing – this year it will be his brother Marino who will be cutting laps.

Marino attended last year’s race as a spectator, but this year he will be a part of Lucas Dumbrell’s Gulf Western Oils team as a co-driver to Warren Luff.

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Dream On Dreamer to support Avenged Sevenfold On Australian Tour

FRONTIER TOURING ANNOUNCE AVENGED SEVENFOLD SUPPORT, DREAM ON DREAMER.

Frontier Touring, are delighted to announce that Melbourne’s Dream On Dreamer will join American powerhouse AVENGED SEVENFOLD on their huge national tour this July/August.

Formed less than 18 months ago, Dream On Dreamer have risen to prominence in an instant, having acquired a huge fan base and a sought-after place on the roster of one of the world’s most prominent punk rock labels Rise Records in just a matter of months. The five-piece recently recorded their debut full-length album Heartbound in Florida and will shortly return to North America, Europe and Japan in support of this incredible release.
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