2016 20 results

Band Of Horses 2016 Australian Tour

For Sydney fans, Band Of Horses are hinting at a special headline performance to be announced soon. Stay tuned for more news in coming weeks. Don’t miss Band Of Horses performing all new songs and beloved classics in Australia this July!   //   In the past, Band of Horses founder and leader Ben Bridwell would literally run away from home to write: Holing up in a secluded cabin or other such remote location, emerging months later with new songs for his band to flesh out ...

Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival 2016 Competition

Now a much anticipated fixture on the festival calendar, the third Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival presented by Palace will see some of the most exciting and fresh movies from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland grace Palace Cinema screens around Australia from 5 July. National Festivals Director Elysia Zeccola Hill who has been running the festivals at Palace Cinemas for the last 18 years said: “Scandinavia has produced some of the most iconic films ever made. This festival ...

Tegan & Sara 2016 Australian Tour

Love You To Death is the band’s 8th studio album and once again finds the group working with producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Beck, Ellie Goulding). It is slated for release on June 3rd, with the first single ‘Boyfriend’ out now.   //   Boyfriend has already received rave reviews from fans and press alike. Vulture exclaims “Are there two greater pop songwriters walking this Earth than Tegan & Sara Quin? Not many. And oh baby, they’re finally back with more ...

Shihad 2016 Australian Tour

In 1996 Shihad released what many consider to be their break through album; the Self Titled opus that became affectionately known as The Fish Album (in reference to the album cover image). Now in April 2016 The Fish Album is re-mastered and re-issued both digitally and on vinyl. Evolving from the semi industrial Churn (1993) through the heavy riff laden Killjoy (1995), The Fish Album bristled with a new found lightness of spirit as it collided with the maturity of a band fulfilling their ...

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2016 Australian Tour

Approximately 375 films are entered into the film festival annually, and the top 80 films are selected by a pre-screening committee to be shown at the week long festival in Canada. During the festival, the international film festival jury chooses the best films and presents awards in various categories including: Best Film on Mountain Sport, Best Film on Mountain Environment, Best Film on Mountain Culture, Best Film on Exploration and Adventure and more. From this selection a program of ...

José González 2016 Australian Tour

Conceived as the third part of an acoustic trilogy complementing 2006’s ‘Veneer’ and 2007’s ‘In Our Nature’, the album is almost entirely self-produced, becoming as González sees it, his “zoomed-out eye on humanity on a small, pale blue dot in a cold, sparse and unfriendly space”. Mastering the rare craft of spellbinding audiences armed only with his classical guitar and gentle melodies, José González will deliver solo performances imbued with his daringly understated ...

Laneway Festival 2016

The 2016 line-up is a heady mix of left-field electronica, shambolic punk, intelligent pop and boundary-pushing hip-hop. It’s the incredibly strong local contingent - already iconic or soon to be legendary Australian bands - many of whom have fresh new music dropping over the next couple of weeks - that we are particularly excited about. Travelling across three countries and seven cities to perform at some of the best live music settings around, the following artists will hit Singapo...

MELT Art Exhibition 2016

LZ DUNN REINTRODUCING JOANNA JONES Take a glimpse into the life of Joanna Jones, aka John Dobbins whose performance career spanned the early era of Melbourne’s drag scene. An ongoing collaboration between John and multi-media artists Lz Dunn, this fascinating film project aims to remember and document fragments of Joanna’s repertoire. RAY COOK IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ANYONE, COME SIT NEXT TO ME Reflect on moments of darkness and light in this exhibition informed by ...

Kev Carmody 2016 Australian Tour

Poet. Radical. Grandad. National treasure. Kev Carmody is many things. Co-writer of the Australian classic, From Little Things, Big Things Grow and the writer of “The best album ever released by an Aboriginal musician” (Rollling Stone, 1987), Kev will be performing around Australia this year. His first tour in over eight years, it will include songs from his new four-disc album Recollections… Reflections… (A Journey). Some concerts will be preceded by a screening of the new ...

The Flaming Lips Australian Tour

The Flaming Lips, headed up by enigmatic front-man Wayne Coyne, are no strangers to Australia; their most recent trip was in 2012/13 to headline Falls Festival and Southbound. Undoubtedly a festival favourite, they have headlined a number of major music festivals in Australia such as Splendour In The Grass, Big Day Out and Harvest, plus a string of major international festivals including Iceland Airwaves, Coachella, Lollapolooza, Firefly, Primavera Sound, Sasquatch! and Hopscotch, to name a ...