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Built To Spill Touring

Look out for a full national tour for indie-rock giants Built to Spill, this summer. As already announced the tour takes in both the Pyramid and Peats Ridge Festivals as well as club shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Earlier this year Built to Spill released their seventh studio album There Is No Enemy which influential North American website Pitchfork declared: “easily the best Built... Read the full story

INXS Get Their Day On The Green

I’m not sure what to think about this one. It’s obvious that INXS will never again be the vitally exciting pop-rock band that they were and there’s a strong argument to suggest that they are tarnishing their legacy with every show they perform. Some band s can survive the loss of a lead singer and there’s many would suggest that INXS is not one of them. But there’s no doubt that there’s... Read the full story

The Lemonheads Return To Play “Ray”.

Lemonheads fans rejoice as the US trio return to Australia this November and December to perform Evan Dando’s classic masterpiece, It’s A Shame About Ray, in its entirety! In addition to the thirteen songs off …Ray, the band will also play a selection of favourites from their other eight releases. Lemonheads have always hard a particular affection for Australia and the feeling has been mutual..... Read the full story

Uriah Heep To Tour

In news that will warm the heart of prog rock and heavy rock fans Australia wide it has been announced that for the first time in 25 years, UK band Uriah Heep will tour Australia. The band released several commercially successful albums in the 1970s such as Uriah Heep Live (1973), but their audience declined by the 1980s, to the point where they became essentially a cult band in the United States and... Read the full story

Hoodoo Gurus Tour Rolls On

The Hoodoo Gurus album Purity of Essence has seen the band return to the forefront of the Australian scene and now the band have announced the next wave of touring behind that album. The band are about to release the third single from their album, ‘Are You Sleeping?’ which will come out just before a special edition of the record which will feature a six part “mockumentary” called ‘Must Travel... Read the full story

Paul Kelly A-Z Songs Tour

On September 27th Paul Kelly’s long-awaited memoir was released through Penguin Books, its genesis in a series of Spiegeltent concerts first staged in 2004. Those concert performances shaped the now famous A To Z shows.  From the little stories he told in between songs at those shows grew the book ‘How to Make Gravy’, and from the songs grew the accompanying 8 CD Box Set ‘The A To... Read the full story