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Where: EVAN Theatre, Panthers
BAM! Performing Arts Studio presents “A Rock
Rhapsody” an experience for all ages, showcasing the talents of our
BAM!FAM. Immerse yourself into an episodic free flowing adventure,
featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. Come
along and ROCK ON!! With the likes of Freddie Mercury, Elton John, AC/DC
and Led Zeppelin to name a few.
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Where: Enmore Theatre
Radical Redemption & Act of Rage headline
the next Monster Show by HSU at the enmore. Radical Redemption brings
his brand new Live Show to Sydney while Act of Rage performs his album
Showcase.
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Where: Ambassador Room, West
HQ
Peter Powers is the world’s funniest
hypnotist and one of the most successful hypnotists in the world today
and it is not too surprising. His live stage show draws crowds much
larger than any other hypnotist in every one of the countries he
performs, making him ‘the biggest box-office hypnotist’. Peter Powers
has starred in and presented 60 of his own television shows in five
different countries and broadcast in more than 30 countries worldwide.
From 2015, Peter featured in a series of his own TV Shows including
‘Mesmerised’ that were aired on prime time on the Channel 7 Network.
Peter was a regular and a favourite guest on the Channel 9 Footy show.
Referred to as “a comedy genius”, “a hypnotist without equal” and “the
best in the business”, Peter delights in the antics of his hapless
volunteers almost as much as his audiences.
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Where: Concert Hall, Sydney
Opera House
Internationally-acclaimed artist and the
world’s ‘Fastest Piano Player’ Peter Bence will return this year to
thrill Australian audiences with his incredible talent. Bence has
achieved sensational success with his edgy, percussive and expressive
playing style that has broken down boundaries between classical and
popular music. He takes the piano to a whole new level, which inspires
both younger and older generations of musicians and music lovers from
everywhere around the world. In January 2012 he attained the Guinness
World Record for the “most piano key hits in one minute” with 765 key
hits.
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Where:
Enmore Theatre
Frontier Touring are thrilled to confirm
Ireland’s queen of the avant-garde Róisín Murphy is returning to
Melbourne and Sydney this December for her first Australian headline
shows in ten years. Following her performance at Meredith Festival’s
Supernatural Amphitheatre, Murphy will delight fans at The Forum in
Melbourne on Sunday 15 December and Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Tuesday
17 December. As the frontwoman and one half of UK-based, alternative
dance-pop duo Moloko, Murphy celebrated a successful career throughout
the 90s with mixer/producer Mark Brydon and their unique electronic
partnership. Across their four studio albums the duo had a number of hit
singles including ‘Sing It Back’, ‘The Time Is Now’, ‘Pure Pleasure
Seeker’ and ‘Indigo’. Merging their sassy, eccentric and unconventional
brand of electronic music, the band became known as one of the most
iconic dance acts of the era.
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Where: Metro Theatre
Byron Bay raised, Berlin-based electronic
five piece Parcels are returning home for to join this years Falls
Festival lineup. But not before giving fans one intimate headline show
in Sydney!! After their resounding debut album release, a sold out
Australian tour, electric sets at worldwide festivals from Lollapalooza
to Coachella and worldwide hype, Parcels are returning matured and
refined. It remains to be seen what the band will offer the Sydney crowd
in December, but it may well be the only chance this year for fans to
hear their full length set and for the band to delve into their diverse
catalogue for the Australian crowd.
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Where: Metro Theatre
A man apart from a world of processed beats
and trap-hats, Pink Sweat$ doesn't rely much on the percussive world,
preferring to let simple instrumentation and his syrupy vocals lead the
way. "I'm tired of hearing the same varieties of styles," Sweat$
explains. "I hear songs, and I know that's a hit, but damn, I heard that
flow…", and if that sounds like the words of a man who knows his sounds
- it's because they are. His two EP's to date Volume 1 and Volume 2 have
garnered millions of streams, proving that Pink Sweat$' penchant for
tranquil harmonic flow is shared by listeners all over the planet. Pink
Sweat$ will demonstrate his addictive harmonies and sublime vocal
abilities on stage at Sydney's Metro Theatre.
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Where: Enmore Theatre
Hermosa Beach legends PENNYWISE have today
announced an Australian tour, where for the first time ever the So Cal
punk rock band will be performing their album ‘Straight Ahead’ in its
entirety plus fan favourites. To celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary
Pennywise will be performing all songs from the album and bringing with
them long-time touring partners from California, STRUNG OUT and Swedish
punk rockers NO FUN AT ALL, giving their Australian fans what will no
doubt be thepunk rock tour of the year.
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Where:
ANZ Stadium
The soaring success of the film Bohemian
Rhapsody, the highest grossing music biopic of all time, has proven that
the love for Queen remains as strong as ever. Queen original band
members Brian May and Roger Taylor are teaming up once more with long
time front man Adam Lambert on lead vocals and returning to Australia
with a brand-new, spectacular production. Completing the tour line-up
are long-term collaborator Spike Edney on keyboards, Neil Fairclough on
bass, and Tyler Warren on percussion. Next summer, the stadium stages of
Australia will be well and truly rocked again!
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Where: Enmore Theatre
Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce
that party icons The Parov Stelar Band will be touching down in
Australia in February 2020, spinning their electric mix of jazz, swing,
electro and pop in Sydney. The Parov Stelar Band was created by Austrian
musician, producer and composer Marcus Fuereder alongside his Parov
Stelar recording project. With years of experience mixing unorthodox and
groundbreaking sounds, Fuereder has become one of Austria's most
renowned international electronic artists. His most recent album, 2017's
The Burning Spider, is a reinvention of the Stelar sound, blending jazz
and blues with his signature electro beats. Not stopping there, 2019 has
been another big year for Parov Stelar, with the release of new singles
'Gringo' and 'Snake Charmer', a collaboration with Sharon Kovacs. Known
as the founder of electro swing, Parov Stelar has produced some massive
tunes over the course of dozens of albums and EPs, including Marvin Gaye
collaboration 'Keep On Dancing', 'The Sun (feat. Graham Candy)', and
2010 belter 'Booty Swing', all of which have topped charts around the
world. Highly decorated for his efforts, he has won eight Amadeus
Austrian Music Awards, with multiple Gold and Platinum tracks in his
home country. Outside of his own music, Stelar is increasingly sought
after for collaborations and remixes, having worked with the likes of
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett, Lana Del Rey, Bryan Ferry, Klingande, Lukas
Graham, and more. The seven-piece Parov Stelar Band has been showing off
their flamboyant live instrumentals and the extraordinary vocals of
Elena Karafizi as they mimic Big Bands of the swing generation, melding
it all with modern day electronics. Overflowing with dance floor allure,
the band has performed thousands of shows around the globe, gracing the
stages of the world's biggest festivals like Coachella, Glastonbury, and
Lollapalooza and selling out arenas in London, Paris and Berlin,
including the iconic Alexandra Palace and back-to-back shows at New
York's Playstation Theatre. The Parov Stelar Band's 2020 shows are built
on an array of new music, complemented by an all-new stage design, light
show and visual backdrop. Don't miss out on tickets to one of the
world's best parties!
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Where: Enmore Theatre
Support: Wage War, Crystal Lake & Alpha Wolf
Sydney metalcore outfit Polaris announce the
details of their highly anticipated second studio album, The Death Of
Me, out February 21, 2020, via Resist Records and their biggest
headliner to date, The Death Of Me Australian Tour supported by Wage
War, Crystal Lake and Alpha Wolf in February 2020. In the two years
since The Mortal Coil, Polaris embarked on three sold-out headlining
tours of Australia, as well as supporting Architects and Parkway Drive
around the country; five runs throughout Europe (including a series of
arena shows supporting Architects and a slew of high-profile summer
festival spots); three separate US tours; not to mention performing at
the Download Festival and Unify Gathering in Australia. Somewhere in
there, the quintet found time to write The Death Of Me. Wage War sharpen
their patented hybrid of heavy pit-starting technicality and hummable
hypnotic melodies with each subsequent evolution. The group's 2015
debut, Blueprints, yielded multiple fan favourites with Alive cracking
12 million Spotify streams, The River exceeding 8 million and totalling
nearly 50 million cumulative streams in two years. Wage War have toured
alongside everyone from I Prevail and Of Mice & Men to Parkway Drive and
A Day To Remember, logging countless miles on the road. Japanese
metalcore giants, Crystal Lake, have been touring the world non-stop in
support of their latest album, Helix, with performances at major
European and UK festivals including Download Festival, Resurrection
Festival, Brutal Assault, Full Force, Nova Rock and more. They recently
supported August Burns Red in the US followed by a support slot on
Northlane and Erra's co Headline tour while currently headlining rope's
premier branded club tour presented by Impericon, the Never Say Die
tour. 2018 saw Melbourne's Alpha Wolf come out swinging with their new
single Black Mamba and then taking their solidified line up on the road.
2019 has been an even bigger year with the band announcing their signing
to SharpTone Records for the world outside Australia, smashing their
first European tour supporting Emmure, as well as playing the Impericon
Festivals to crowds of up to 10,000 fans. Coming home, the band sold out
their entire Australian headline run, including their hometown show at
Stay Gold before heading straight back off to dominate shows across
Asia.
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Where: The Bridge Hotel
The Poor plays BACK IN BLACK - it's a
no-brainer for the much loved hard rockin' Aussie band who toured the
world with AC/DC back in 1996. Early 2020, The Poor hit the road to
showcase arguably AC/DC’s most significant album, marking its 40 year
anniversary. They will track through the entire “Back in Black” album
whilst playing their own hits – songs such as “More Wine Waiter Please”,
“Poison” &. “Man of War”.
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Where:
State Theatre
20-time Grammy Award winning guitarist, PAT
METHENY, has announced “An Evening with Pat Metheny” - three special
theatre shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney during March, 2020. Touring
Australia for only the third time in his 40-year-plus career (having
previously visited in 1985 and 2014), Metheny will present a range of
music from throughout his career, joined by his long-time drummer,
Antonio Sanchez, Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda May Han Oh and
British pianist Gwilym Simcock. Of the forthcoming shows, Metheny says:
“It could really be anything and everything. I have already written a
bunch of new music which we recorded and will be released early 2020,
inspired just by the thought of this presentation, but I could also
imagine playing only old music one night... I like the idea of keeping
it open and letting it become whatever it winds up being over the course
of a tour. “At this stage, I have so much music and it all is kind of
one big thing for me without borders or distinctions between this period
or that period. With Antonio, Linda and Gwilym, I think we could and
will do a wide range of things from throughout all of it - and maybe
uncover what the next period has in store as well.” Pat Metheny first
burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974 displaying his
soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and
flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an
advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility - a way of playing and
improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the
jazz tradition of melody, swing and the blues. With the release of his
first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional
"jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players. Inducted into the
Downbeat Hall of Fame in 2015 as its youngest-ever member and only the
fourth guitarist (joining Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and Wes
Montgomery), Metheny has throughout his career continued to redefine the
genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the
improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny has spent
much of his life on tour, often doing more than 100 shows a year since
becoming a bandleader in the 70s. He continues to be one of the
brightest stars of the music scenes today. Joining Pat Metheny will be
his long-time drummer Antonio Sanchez who has been his most consistent
associate in a huge variety of settings since 2000. “Antonio is always
incredible. He is one of the greatest drummers of all time and the fact
that we have been able to share so much music together over these years
is something really special for both of us. And I am so proud of all his
recent successes with the “Birdman” score.” Antonio’s score for the
Oscar winning Alejandro G. Innaritu film was nominated for a Golden
Globe and 2016 Grammy Award as well as dozens of other prizes around the
world. Metheny goes on to say “Being on the bandstand with Antonio is
like nothing else I have ever experienced with any other musician. He
has the capacity to listen and be inside the music with an intensity
that is unique. That focus, combined with his truly otherworldly skills
on the kit puts him his own category.” Malaysian/Australian bassist
Linda May Han Oh has been extremely active on the New York scene for the
past few years, playing with many of the major musicians in the
community. Metheny continues, “I love to follow who the new players
around town are and I go out often to check out what everyone is doing.
The first time I heard Linda, she immediately went to the top of my list
of candidates. She has everything I always am looking for; great time,
great notes and a lot of imagination. But the most important thing I am
always searching for in any musician is an elusive and hard to describe
quality that embodies a certain communicative ability to connect - not
just to the other musicians, but to the audience as well. Linda has
that. When we got together, she was so easy to play with. She went on to
tell me how much she had been affected as a young player by my record
Question and Answer and a few others, which is incredibly gratifying for
me. I am really excited to get the chance to play with Linda.” Rounding
out the ensemble is British pianist Gwilym Simcock, one of the most
exciting new pianists to emerge from the UK in many years. Metheny: “I
first heard about Gwilym on a trip to London a few years back when
someone at a radio station gave me his debut record while mentioning to
me that he had often spoken of his interest in this music having been
sparked by his exposure to one of my early records, again one of the
most flattering things imaginable. When I listened to his CD, I became
an instant fan; Gwilym is simply one of the best piano players I have
heard in a long, long time. After trying to find time to get together
over a number of years, in 2014 I was finally able to stay over after a
gig in London to do some playing. We had planned on getting together for
a few hours or so but wound up playing continuously for an entire
afternoon. It was absolutely incredible what we were able to get to so
quickly. I have only ever had that kind of communication and ease of
playing with another musician a handful of times over the years to that
degree. I am so excited to get the chance to play with Gwilym and there
seems to be enormous potential there for us to develop a really unique
way of playing together.”
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Pixies: Come On
Pilgrim... It's
Surfer Rosa |
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Where: Forecourt, Sydney
Opera House
PIXIES, one of the most influential
alternative rock bands of all time, have announced a new Sydney show due
to overwhelming demand. The music pioneers will now play a second show
at the iconic Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Sunday, March 15. The
first Sydney show on March 14 is now completely sold out. Pre-sale
tickets for the show will be available to Sydney Opera members from 9am
Tuesday, August 27 and My Live Nation members from 10am Wednesday,
August 28. General on-sale is Friday, August 30 at 11am. The
announcement follows on from recent sellouts in Perth, Melbourne and
Brisbane – proving Pixies fever in Australia is at an all-time high! New
shows have now been added at the Palais Theatre, Fortitude Music Hall
and Sydney Opera House as part of the band’s mammoth world tour, Come On
Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa. Pixies’ debut releases - the electrifying
1987 EP Come On Pilgrim and 1988’s debut full-length album, Surfer Rosa
- brought rise to a new genre and defined contemporary music for a
generation. The tour will bear witness to both seminal albums being
performed in full – plus new and old tracks spanning their extensive
catalogue. Surfer Rosa is a record made up of rage, religion, gore,
incest and superheroes named Tony - a debut album so good that it's
since been seen as a masterpiece. Produced by Steve Albini, it includes
early Pixies classics such as "Bone Machine," "Gigantic," "Vamos" and
"Where Is My Mind?". Come On Pilgrim contained eight songs from the
band's first-ever studio session, produced by Gary Smith and recorded at
his Fort Apache Studio near Boston. Returning for what will be only
their fourth visit to Australia, the band will perform at Melbourne’s
Palais Theatre on March 9 and 10, then head to Brisbane for shows on
March 12 and 13, not-to-be-missed momentous shows under the stars at
Sydney Opera House Forecourt on March 14 and 15 before flying west for a
final show at Fremantle Arts Centre on March 17. Forming in Boston,
Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies are often acclaimed as the most
influential, pioneering alternative band of the late 80s, garnering
extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. After five genre-defining
studio albums, Pixies disbanded in 1993. The tide turned in 2004 - the
band reunited and began touring, playing to sell-out crowds around the
world including their first-ever Australian performances in 2007, later
to be followed by a 13-show sold-out Doolittle tour in 2010 and again in
2017. Pixies will release their brand new and eighth studio album,
Beneath The Eyrie, on September 13 (through Infectious/BMG). Visceral,
musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit
unsettling – the album boasts 12 new tracks produced by GRAMMY-nominated
Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies' Head Carrier). Lead single “On
Graveyard Hill,” is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent,
ominous doom. Fans can pre-order the album now. The evolution of the
album’s creative process is uniquely documented in a 12-episode podcast
entitled It’s a Pixies Podcast.
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Pop Will Eat Itself
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Where: Factory Theatre
England's finest genre-blenders Pop Will Eat
Itself aka PWEI return! Playing "This Is the Day...This Is the
Hour...This Is This!" (Can U Dig It?, Def Con One, Wise Up! Sucker) in
full! Plus hear an encore of classics - Ich Bin Ein Auslander,
Everything's Cool, Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!, Their Law and heaps
more! "We try to be entertaining. Obviously we want it to sound good,
but we're not trying to present the fact that we're proficient
musicians, we're not. It's about entertainment, so if we run about the
stage and bump into each other and somebody fluffs a note, it's all part
of the fun" – Crabb, on a PWEI live show. "This Is the Day...This Is the
Hour...This Is This!" was hailed as a masterpiece ahead of its time.
Hear it live with boundless energy that always makes a Poppies show so
much fun!
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Where: Enmore Theatre
After an award-winning sell out Australian
tour in 2017, the Godmother of Punk - Patti Smith is returning to play
Sydney this April! Just when we thought it was all over, Patti called
and said ‘I’d like to do it all over again. I’m ready if you are!” How
could we refuse? The living legend that is Patti Smith added ‘It was
just such a great trip. I really thought that I wouldn’t be able to come
back - so I’m delighted that I was wrong’. After conquering Bluesfest in
2017, Patti Smith and Her Band took home the Helpmann Award that year
for Best International Contemporary Concert. With a stellar band
including her son, Jackson, 2020 is set to be even better! Smith’s
legacy as an artist is already guaranteed. Her debut LP ‘Horses’ has
been cited as one of the greatest albums of all time from numerous
sources including NME and Rolling Stone and marks the beginning of a
long and significant musical career for Patti Smith, one that resonates
even greater today and has inspired countless others along the way.
'Horses' was followed by another nine albums of original material, books
of poetry and a best-selling memoir, an induction into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, world tours and personal appearances. Her award-winning
books are ‘M Train’ (2015), ‘Just Kids’, and most recently ‘Year of the
Monkey’ released on 24 Sept 2019. Aside from recording, performing, art
and writing, Patti is strongly involved in social issues and continues
to participate in various human rights organisations. We are thrilled to
welcome the seminal and legendary poet and punk rock artiste Patti Smith
back to Australia with open arms!
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Where: Hordern Pavilion
Today, Rex Orange County shares his new
album Pony. It is the highly-anticipated follow up to 2017's Apricot
Princess and was written, recorded, and performed almost entirely by Rex
himself at Strongroom Studios in East London, with frequent collaborator
Ben Baptie co-producing, engineering and mixing the album. It follows
the release of singles ‘Pluto Projector’ and ‘10/10’, the latter
recently being performed on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
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Where: Qudos Bank Arena
Returning to Australia in 2020 for The Hits!
tour, a 50 year celebration of his stellar career. Still at the very top
of his game Stewart has followed a triumphant stadium tour this UK
summer with one of his biggest UK tours ever, with live performances
running through November and December of 2019. In addition, he has also
toured the USA, with highlights including headlining a series of shows
at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of a multi-year residency and
adding a third sold-out Hollywood Bowl concert in LA for a landmark
reunion set with his former bandmate Jeff Beck.
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