Category: Past Tours

Newton Faulkner Returns To Australia For National Tour

Newton Faulkner Returns To Australia For National Tour

NEWTON FAULKNER RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA PERFORMING NATIONALLY IN SEPTEMBER “He launches into each song with impressive guitar work and vocals being an understatement.”  FasterLouder, Palais Theatre April 2010 Hot off the heels of his third studio album, Write It On Your Skin, Chugg Entertainment and Bluesfest Touring are thrilled to confirm that Newton Faulkner will be making his anticipated return to […]

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Pyramid Rock Festival 2012 – lineup announcement!

Pyramid Rock Festival 2012 – lineup announcement!

PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL Saturday 29 December 2012 to Tuesday 1 January 2013  Calling all Kings and Queens of Pyramid! It’s gonna be a loud and proud party this New Year’s Eve at Pyramid Rock.  Turning nine years old, Pyramid will see in the dawn of a new age in spectacular style! Set on the majestic cliff tops of Victoria’s Phillip Island with the ocean providing the dream backdrop. Summer camping under the […]

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The Beards – 2012 End Of The World (for beardless people) Tour

The Beards – 2012 End Of The World (for beardless people) Tour

Triple J, The Harbour Agency and Street Press Australia present: The Beards: The 2012 End of The World (for beardless people) Tour By now, everyone has heard about the various ancient prophecies predicting some sort of apocalypse at the end of this year. There’s the Mayan prophesies, the Incan and Egyptian prophesies, the prophesies of Nostradamus, as well as a […]

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The Rubens announce national tour dates & new single ‘My Gun’

The Rubens announce national tour dates & new single ‘My Gun’

THE RUBENS – NEW SINGLE ‘MY GUN’ + NATIONAL ALBUM TOUR MY GUN is the brand new single from Menangle wunderkinds THE RUBENS. Recorded in NYC with Grammy Award winning producer David Kahne, MY GUN is a shining example of why The Rubens have managed so effortlessly to connect with audiences around the nation. A blend of frontman Sam Margin’s […]

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10th Anniversary Tour of LONG WAY TO THE TOP

10th Anniversary Tour of LONG WAY TO THE TOP

Still Rockin’ After All These Years . . .  Over 17 rock legends from the 60s, 70s and 80s.  Melbourne – Sydney – Newcastle – Brisbane It has been a decade since the record-breaking Long Way to the Top rock music extravaganza blazed its way around Australia.  Over two hundred thousand ecstatic Australian fans revelled in the opportunity to relive the music that defined […]

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Reverse Grip announce Australian tour dates

Reverse Grip announce Australian tour dates

Reverse Grip is a super high energy hard rock band formed by Dru, Sean and Dylan Broda, Three real Brothers from Toronto, Canada.  Living in Australia, Dru and Sean began writing music that would ultimately create Reverse Grip.  Sean had been playing guitar and had studied privately since he was 9 and his love for the face melting riffs of […]

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16th annual Queenscliff Music Festival – 2nd artist announcement

16th annual Queenscliff Music Festival – 2nd artist announcement

Queenscliff Music Festival hits Olympic heights with their second lineup announcement for 2012. Not since the lighting of the Olympic flame in London has there been so much anticipation for a single three-day event, running November 23rd, 24th and 25th! Requiring more clandestine negotiations than a Flag Bearer reveal at the Opening Ceremony, it’s time to unveil those garish uniforms and step out on […]

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US hitmaker Joe Nichols returns to Australia

US hitmaker Joe Nichols returns to Australia

Platinum selling US country star Joe Nichols will make his fourth visit to Australia thisSeptember to perform at the Deni Ute Muster on Saturday 29 and special concerts inSydney on Wednesday 26 and Tamworth on Friday 28. The CMA award winner, whose catalogue of hits includes Brokenheartsville and Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, began his love affair with Oz in 2009, when he headlined CMC Rocks the Snowys. The love from fans, who’ve turned out in […]

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Greenthief announce first National headline tour.

Greenthief announce first National headline tour.

GREENTHIEF ANNOUNCE FIRST NATIONAL HEADLINE TOUR In support of releasing their new single, ‘Mr Number 1’ , hard-hi t t ing Br isbane rockers Greenthief will be bringing their unique blend of psychedelic audio mayhem to all corners of the country with their first national headline tour. The track is the first taste of their debut album to be released […]

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Jericco release video for ‘Dance Like Nobody’s Watching’ and announce national tour dates

Jericco release video for ‘Dance Like Nobody’s Watching’ and announce national tour dates

After three years together, 137 blistering shows, eleven festival appearances, many sold out headlining gigs, a solid offering of two highly successful EPs and the release of one Live Album featuring three brand new tracks, a courageous yet confident move that shows off the bands real strength, Melbourne rock maestros Jericco are now back to offer a taste of things to come. […]

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Welcome to Homebake Music Film Comedy Arts Festival 2012 – The Global edition!

Welcome to Homebake Music Film Comedy Arts Festival 2012 – The Global edition!

“It’s the end of the world and we know it, and I feel fine” – REM A famous line from a (in)famous song and yet if only the Mayans could have chosen it as a theme for their much hyped Doomsday prophecies.  And so Ladies and Gentlemen, like the Mayans, we here at HOMEBAKE HQ have been planning and preparing for quite some […]

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16th Queenscliff Music Festival – 1st lineup announcement!

16th Queenscliff Music Festival – 1st lineup announcement!

The 16th Queenscliff Music Festival 23-24-25 November 2012 Featuring: You Am I, Something For Kate, Baby Animals, Ian Moss, The Cat Empire, Diesel, King Cannons, Gurrumul, Missy Higgins, Shannon Noll, Kingswood, Electric Empire, TZU, Owl Eyes and many, many more… Queenscliff Music Festival invites you to fluff up the shagpile, wax up the board and hoon up the highway for its […]

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All The Young (UK) are coming to Australia

All The Young (UK) are coming to Australia

Not many stories begin in Stoke on Trent, England, most that do don’t often have happy endings. An industrialised town with no industry, a motorway bypass for people driving somewhere, anywhere that isn’t Stoke on Trent. Earn your money in the warehouse, spend it in the pub. Go to work when it’s dark and get home when it’s darker. That […]

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Nekromantix return this October for 2012 Australian tour

Nekromantix return this October for 2012 Australian tour

Danish American psychobilly horror legends Nekromantix return to our shores this October for their 2012 Australian tour. Led by misfit rock ‘n’ roll rebel Kim Nekroman, Nekromantix have forged their own unique image and identity in the world of modern punk rock. The trio including guitarist Franc and the band’s first female drummer Lux, inhabit a world of the undead, […]

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Mystery Jets return to Australia in September

Mystery Jets return to Australia in September

London based group Mystery Jets return to Australian in support of new album ‘Radlands’. Mystery Jets have already been announced on the gigantic Fat As Butter Festival line-up, and now have announced headline shows across Perth and the East Coast. The Australian dates start in Perth on Thursday 20 September at the Capitol, followed up by Sydney on Sunday 23 September at Metro Theatre, Brisbane on Tuesday 25 September at The Hi Fi and finishing up in Melbourne on Wednesday 26 September at theCorner Hotel. Hailing from West London […]

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The Angels set to headline the 2012 Sydney Blues & Roots Festival

The Angels set to headline the 2012 Sydney Blues & Roots Festival

The Angels set to headline the 2012 Sydney Blues & Roots Festival Second line-up announcement adds another 42 acts to a massive four days of live music, 25th-28th October Legendary Australian band The Angels is confirmed to headline the 2012 Sydney Blues & Roots Festival in Windsor, an exciting addition to the line up which promises blues, roots and rock […]

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Richard Clapton: Vampires, Divorce and Charlie Sheen

Richard Clapton: Vampires, Divorce and Charlie Sheen

Richard Clapton is one of Australia’s most loved and enduring songwriters. “Harlequin Nights“, his first album in eight years, celebrates the beginning of his fifth decade in the music industry. Featuring everything from 6 ½ minute musical epic “Vapour Trails” through to folk classic “Run Like a River” and a fellow party boy’s nod at Charlie Sheen in rocking first […]

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Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson touring ‘Wreck & Ruin’ album October – December 2012

Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson touring ‘Wreck & Ruin’ album October – December 2012

Five years ago, Rattlin Bones became the must-have album for 2008, with Australian audiences embracing the first musical collaboration of Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson and sending the album to the top of the ARIA charts.  After a brief hiatus where they returned to their respective solo careers, Kasey and Shane finally found time to write and record together again […]

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NIGHTWISH Announce Imaginaerum Tour

NIGHTWISH Announce Imaginaerum Tour

NIGHTWISH return to Australia and to New Zealand for the first time in January 2013, bringing their dramatic and symphonic sound. Equal parts epic metal and gothic symphony, in the modern gothic genre NIGHTWISH stand alone. Their combination of seductive, emotional vocals and gallant guitar melodies are like a dark embrace you never want to be freed from. Gracing our […]

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The Living End Retrospective tour gets bigger…

The Living End Retrospective tour gets bigger…

It’s all systems GO here at TLE HQ, tickets for The Retrospective Tour are ON SALE NOW and what a morning it has been so far! Here is your warning, get in super quick as tickets are selling EXTREMELY FAST! Die hard TLE fans have already had their chance to snap up tickets and now is your turn to secure yourself a seat in the […]

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Marianas Trench announce Australian shows

Marianas Trench announce Australian shows

FRIDAY JULY 20, 2012 – For the first time in Australia, Canada’s pop punk quartet Marianas Trench will hit the stage for a trio of headline shows this September. Following the earlier announcement of their appearance at Fat As Butter, Marianas Trench will head to Melbourne’s Corner Hotel (Sept 24) and Brisbane’s The Zoo (Sept 25) before winding up their […]

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Nickelback bring the ‘Here and Now’ tour to Australia in November

Nickelback bring the ‘Here and Now’ tour to Australia in November

It’s been three years, and Nickelback is on it’s way back Australia! Tickets for all five shows will go on-sale Tuesday, July 31 at 9.00am (local time), available through Live Nation and Ticketek. Nickelback Fan Club members will be get first dibs on tickets beginning on July 23 at noon (local time). Fan Club details can be found here. My […]

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AMERICA – Australian Tour 2012

AMERICA – Australian Tour 2012

AMERICA – Featuring Founding Members DEWEY BUNNELL and GERRY BECKLEY Australian Tour 2012 Tickets Selling Fast! With America’s 2012 Australian tour fast approaching tickets to all shows across the country are selling incredible fast. Don’t miss your opportunity to catch the celebrated Grammy Award-winning perennial classic rock band featuring founding members Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell.  AMERICA harmonised their way […]

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At The Gates announce Australian tour

At The Gates announce Australian tour

Destroy All Lines and Blue Murder are excited to announce a rare and heavily anticipated tour from recently reformed Swedish death metal legends At The Gates this October/November. Known for masterfully mixing a ferocious blend of melody and brutality into memorable metal breakdowns, this beloved five-piece have built a reputation for delivering genre-defining albums and frenetic live performances, which Australian audiences will […]

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Shihad – The Meanest

Shihad – The Meanest

A NEW SINGLE. A DOUBLE DISC CAREER RETROSPECTIVE. A TOUR. LATE LAST YEAR SHIHAD RELEASED A 38 SONG CAREER RETROSPECTIVE DOUBLE DISC, THE MEANEST HITS IN NEW ZEALAND. THE RESPONSE TO THE ALBUM AND INEVITABLE TOUR WAS NOTHING SHORT OF MIND BLOWING. NOW IT’S AUSTRALIA’S TURN. Coinciding with an impending main-stage performance at Splendour In The Grass 2012, SHIHAD announce: […]

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Good Charlotte Australian tour

Good Charlotte Australian tour

Good Charlotte Announce Sydney & Melbourne Shows September 2012 Look out fans; this September will be just like your birthday, when Good Charlotte bring their anthems back to Australia. Following the success of last years sell out tour, the band will play both Melbourne and Sydney before they head to Newcastle to play Fat As Butter Festival.After eleven years, five studio albums, […]

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Big Day Out 2013 Lineup announced!

Big Day Out 2013 Lineup announced!

BIG DAY OUT 2013 ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER FROM KEN WEST Summer’s coming early this year… Welcome to the 2013 Big Day Out festivals, a brave new frontier in our 21st year, created with our new partners, C3 Presents. We are all extremely proud to present you with 37 acts that we feel truly represents the depth and scale of what BDO […]

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Enter Shikari Australian Tour announced

Enter Shikari Australian Tour announced

ENTER SHIKARI continues to defy those who dare seek to pigeonhole them. ENTER SHIKARI’s 3rd album ‘A Flash Flood of Colour’ is a string of venomous attacks while fine-tuning a blazing musical fist in the air, aimed at corrupt governments and decaying society.  It’s daring, thought provoking, and utterly unpredictable, making it the first bold record of 2012 and Enter […]

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Weezer to tour Australia for the first time in sixteen years!

Weezer to tour Australia for the first time in sixteen years!

WEEZER TO TOUR AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SIXTEEN YEARS PLAYING THEIR GREATEST HITS AND ‘THE BLUE ALBUM’ FROM START TO FINISH It has been sixteen long years since Weezer’s one and only tour of Australia. After incessant rumours of potential tours, the resultant fervour that has taken over the nation’s music fans remains unrivalled. Chugg Entertainment is excited to […]

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SNOW PATROL live and acoustic in Melbourne & Sydney

SNOW PATROL live and acoustic in Melbourne & Sydney

Fans of Irish/Scottish alternative rockers SNOW PATROL will be treated to an exclusive acoustic showcase of the band’s music in intimate theatres in Melbourne and Sydney. The band are visiting Australia off the back of their latest album Fallen Empires (out now through Universal Music Australia). Snow Patrol rose to fame with era-defining singles such as ‘Run’, ‘Chocolate’ and ‘Chasing […]

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