Everybody’s favourite Aussie rock band The Screaming Jets are kicking off the new year with a full-throttle celebration and are set to deliver the ultimate holiday soundtrack to the East Coast on their Rock ‘n’ Roll on Summer Tour 2025! The Jets are bringing their signature high-energy live shows to coastal and regional towns in Queensland from January 3 in Eagleby, followed by […]

“Touring is the life blood of bands nowadays, you can’t rely on album sales these days, you can rely on getting ripped off by Spotify *laughs* So touring getting out there on the road and playing live and having that interaction with the fans and letting them know that we’re still a driving force is kind of what it’s about…” […]

RED HOT SUMMER TOUR is thrilled to announce the next series of dates for the 2024 season from one of Australia’s most sought-after summer festivals.  These iconic outdoor shows will take place in various locations across the country, and for series three, this star studded-line-up will feature SUZI QUATRO taking centre stage, playing with international juggernauts CHEAP TRICK, alongside Aussie favouritesJon […]

The Screaming Jets, headed up by legendary rock front man Dave Gleeson, have shared a further taste of their long awaited tenth studio album, Professional Misconduct, via the anthemic new single Second Chance. Already touted as one of the finest ballads of the bands near 35-year career, Dave Gleeson explains, “This one’s very introspective. I came up with the lyric during Covid. It’s about those sliding-door […]

Back by popular demand, Aussie rock favourites The Screaming Jets have announced ‘The Rock Vault’ tour for 2023.  The shows will kick off on February 24, visiting capital cities and regional centres in NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, across to three shows in WA then wrapping up the tour on April 25 . These performances are the sequel to their hugely successful national tour […]

Over the past decade, One Electric Day has solidified its reputation as one of Victoria’s favourite one-day music festivals. Every year the show at Werribee Park sells out in a matter of minutes. This year, organisers are not only excited to be able to take the popular event interstate again for a run of shows, but have also announced an international headliner […]

“2020 can go and get stuffed as far as I’m concerned *laughs* the fact that on March the 14th every bit of work that I had or that we had lined up for the year got called off, that was pretty devastating for every band in the country really, every act, every performer.” Faced with an uncertain future and cancelled […]

“…we just wanted to get out there and sweat and rock and play music to people and get them pumping, So that’s kind of where we’ve kind of hung our hat.” From Release: Celebrating 30 years The Screaming Jets are taking a step back in time and revisiting their musical history. Not much has changed since 1989 when nobody knew […]

Celebrating 30 years, The Screaming Jets are taking a step back in time and revisiting their musical history.  Songs like ‘Sister Tease’, ‘Stop The World’, ‘Blue Sashes’, ‘Think’, and many more gems are set to be unleashed onto fans in a select few shows.  With special guests in THE POOR, THE CELIBATE RIFLES and BOOM CRASH OPERA in tow, the Jets […]

Hot on the heels of the announcement of Series One of the RED HOT SUMMER TOUR, the festival promoters are excited to announce Series Two featuring the Ultimate Rock N Roll Line-Up. Kicking off in February 2019, Series Two of the coveted touring festival will see the return of the Queen of Rock Suzi Quatro, with special guests The Angels, […]

As they approach their 30th anniversary, one of Australia’s most loved and respected rock bands, The Screaming Jets, is gearing up for the release of a very special record – GOTCHA COVERED. Pre-order HERE Available from July 27, GOTCHA COVERED , the eighth full-length album from The Jets, was largely inspired by the band’s favourite radio hits of the last 50+ years, and songs that evoke […]

“We were very lucky to come along when there was loyalty for bands and it was also the end of the pub rock era and yeah our live shows were probably second to none and we always put a lot into our live shows, the songs obviously play a huge part in that…” From Release: 2017 was a huge year […]

Sometimes, the creative partnership between two band members can crossover from music to other visual mediums. The Screaming Jets and Scott Kingman Photography have become synonymous with high quality live capture of the phenomenal Screaming Jets live shows for many years. If it’s a great photo of the Jets… it’s been taken by Scott Kingman! Only a small portion of […]

The Screaming Jets proudly announce a national tour, ROCK RADIO RIOT, with rock contemporaries and special guests, Boom Crash Opera. These two Australian radio favourites team up to deliver a powerhouse of high rotation hits in what is sure to be one of the rock events of the year! The tour commences in Sydney on August 3 and travels around Australia concluding on September […]

“…I think it’s a pretty balanced story we don’t get into too much stuff I mean being in a band is not necessarily an easy experience,  a lot of things happen over the years but it’s basically a pretty positive tale of how the whole thing started in the first place and what we sort of had to go through […]

“…we’ve got so much history and the ego thing’s kind of been left behind we just want to get out there and showcase the fact that great Australian pub rock didn’t end in the mid to late ‘80’s, we came along and kicked it in the butt in the early 90’s and hopefully we were able to fly the flag […]

“We signed our first record deal in 1990 and that was for seven albums and we thought we’d have seven albums out by the end of the decade but twenty six years on we’re just doing our seventh one *laughs* but we did spend a couple of years re-establishing ourselves live, and it just felt the right time now to […]

As one of the country’s most rockin’ album bands, The Screaming Jets are back after eight years with a new studio release – Chrome. To say the band are f**king excited would be an understatement, their seventh studio album has been a labour of love and by all accounts, sits up there with their best. Supporting the highly anticipated release, […]

Date: Saturday November 22, 2014 Venue: The Factory Theatre, Sydney Support: Tracer Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our recent interview with Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets HERE  

“…it’s unreal, we kind of pin it on the fact that we spent probably the first at least ten years of the band constantly on the road and releasing stuff and building up a loyal legion of fans that have come to gigs and supported the band come hell or high water.” The upcoming national tour for The Screaming Jets […]

“… I have to sort of become the person that is singing the song if that makes any sense, even though I wrote them and I’ve had Dave sing them, now I’ve got sort of go through what he does before each song he becomes the person of that song if that makes any sense.” From press release: As the […]

“I just love The Angels songs, I love the power of them, I love going and rocking out to them and I kind of had faith in the fact the people would feel the same way.  There’s a bit of negative reaction obviously, but on the main it’s been pretty well received.” When you put together the A list of […]

THE ANGELS – NEW ALBUM ‘TAKE IT TO THE STREETS’ OUT 31 AUGUST FEATURING NEW SINGLE ‘WAITING FOR THE SUN’ OUT AUGUST 13 What do we do now? That was the hard question Rick and John Brewster of The Angels had been chewing over in early 2011. Their singer Doc Neeson had set off to pursue a solo career a […]

Sat 23rd June 2012, Forum, Melbourne, Australia For more information visit the EXPERIENCE JIMI HENDRIX website. The guitar concert event of the year.  Australia’s hottest guitarists together on one stage for one night only to pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix.   Inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s unparalleled creative and musical influence ‘Experience Jimi Hendrix’ was originally conceived in Sydney by Empire Touring in […]

Dave’s come in at a hundred miles an hour and he’s strong within himself and we’ve only done three gigs but it’s sounding absolutely amazing.  We’ve had people coming up to us and saying, that’s the best Angels gig I’ve seen in twenty years! The Angels (or Angel City for those in the USA) really don’t need any introduction other […]

August 18th, 2011 (Sydney, Australia).  Mid 2011 saw Rick Brewster’s Angels fronted by Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets perform two mind-blowing sell out shows in Sydney and Adelaide. They showcased the band’s new single “Waiting For The Sun” as well as performing all the classics, leaving fans screaming for more and excited at the prospect of a new revitalized […]