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Hope Sandoval – The Forum

Well you could either write a book or say very little about Hope Sandoval’s first ever Melbourne concert and the undercurrents that made it the almost bizarre experience that it became. Anyone who had done their homework would have known that Hope Sandoval does not “perform”. She stands almost motionless in close to darkness and she sings. That’s not “performing” but there wasn’t anyone... Read the full story

The Eagles December Tour

The Eagles – Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit - are returning to Australia in December 2010 for concerts in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. Their last tour was in 2004, when the Eagles undertook a mammoth sold-out trek that delivered great shows to audiences who were thrilled to learn that the bands trademark vocals remained untarnished.  The tour was a phenomenal... Read the full story

Bon Jovi Stadium Tour

Bon Jovi will return to Australia in December with a series of gigantic stadium shows as part of The Circle world tour. Bon Jovi will play Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday 8 July. The Circle tour will see the band spend much of the next two years on the road, performing a staggering 135 shows in 30 countries. This brand new stadium stage production coming... Read the full story

Cowboy Junkies To Release Four New Albums !

Cowboy Junkies plan to release four new albums over the next 18 months, under the title The Nomad Series. All albums will be released through their own label Latent Recordings. After all four volumes are released, the next step is a book that explains the inspiration behind each of the albums. It will be published by Whale and Star, the publishing house of the band’s friend Enrique Martinez Celaya,... Read the full story

Ross Wilson Album Soon

Following on from his very successful Five Decades of Cool show last year Ross Wilson has kept his promise to deliver a new album. The album will be out in July and its title is I Come In Peace which is also the title of a song co-written with Rick Brewster from The Angels.  Wilson has also made a video for the song. To celebrate all of this activity Wilson and his current band Ross Wilson and the... Read the full story

American Slang – The Gaslight Anthem (Shock)

Along with The Hold Steady, The Gaslight Anthem have been anointed as the saviours of guitar based rock music (is there any other kind?) and on the evidence of their latest album American Slang they are taking the job seriously. They don’t take themselves as seriously as some of the music writers who have been tripping over their superlatives and mixing metaphors to try and suggest that these is... Read the full story

Wake Up The Nation – Paul Weller (Island)

The career of Paul Weller has been notable for its versatility and evolution and this album does nothing to change that view. It’s another set of sharp and incisive songs that cover a lot of stylistic  ground encompassing all of his touch stones – soul, new wave, art-pop and rock n’ roll. It’s his tenth solo album and unlike some of his contemporaries he seems to be gaining in momentum over... Read the full story

Yusuf (Cat Stevens) – Rod Laver Arena

It had been thirty-six years since the Artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and now known as Yusuf) had toured Australia and he clearly has a large audience of devotees in these parts. Two sold out Rod Laver Arenas stood as testament to that and few of those fans would have left disappointed. I was certainly impressed by his resilience as a vocalist and there’s no doubt that many of his songs have... Read the full story

Rockwiz – Palais Theatre

Translating a television show, albeit a show that has elements of a rock n’ roll gig into a touring show is quite a challenge, but the Rockwiz crew pull it off reasonably well. Playing in the shows spiritual home of StKilda, at the end of the tour was always going to be cause for some sort of celebration and the show did have the mood of a victory lap as the team reached the end of a long tour. The... Read the full story

Free Tickets to Hope Sandoval Concert!

You can read a (kinda) interview with the wonderful Hope Sandoval elsewhere on this here website but if you are a fan you hardly need convincing, right? You are probably reading this right now because of the headline, Free Tickets To Hope Sandoval Concert!. Fair enough! Thanks to the fine folks at Feel, Hey Hey My My has a double pass to give away to each of Hope Sandoval’s Australian shows. I’m... Read the full story

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