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Human Rights Arts & Film Festival – on Tour

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival’s national festival tour returns in 2015, hitting the road throughout May and June. Catch the latest social-justice film premieres from around the world at HRAFF on tour in Brisbane. Spanning documentary, drama, animation and more, HRAFF’s diverse program will introduce you to incredible people and fascinating places. Showcasing a collection of captivating stories fresh from the Melbourne program, HRAFF travels the country in search of new ...

The Cherry Dolls “The Last Time” East Coast Tour

“Cherry Dolls stepped up to put on two absolutely ferocious performances for the healthy-sized Sunday crowd” Rolling Stone   “Stellar home-grown rock delivered with refreshing bursts of swaggering firepower” - Beat Magazine “…quenching Melbourne’s thirst for straight up no nonsense rock n roll” . Tone Deaf A 5 piece star-studded rock band in their own right, The Cherry Dolls possess charm, charisma and looks to kill that keep fans coming back for more. The Cherry ...

Paloma Faith 2015 Australian Tour

The tour follows the March 2014 release of Paloma’s third album, ‘A Perfect Contradiction’ (through Sony Music Australia), which has been an ARIA top 5 hit. After emerging on the scene with 2009’s critically acclaimed ‘Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?’, followed with ‘Fall To Grace’ in 2012, ‘A Perfect Contradiction’ is an upbeat return, featuring collaborations with esteemed artists across many of the eleven tracks, including Plan B, John Legend, Stewart ...

TV on the Radio Australian Tour

Currently touring the US, the band are heading out in support of their latest, highly acclaimed album, Seeds, featuring tunes ‘Happy Idiot’, ‘Could You’ and brand new single ‘Trouble’. TV on the Radio will play The Tivoli, Brisbane, on Wednesday June 10 and The Forum, Melbourne, on Friday June 12, in addition to performances at Sydney’s Vivid Festival. TV on the Radio is a quartet made up of LA-based founding members David Andrew Sitek and Tunde Adebimpe, and New York ...

blur 2015 Australian Tour

Joining the blur on the bill will be very special guest Jamie T, one of the most distinctive voices to come out of the UK in the past decade. Announcing their arrival with debut album ‘Leisure’ in 1991 and follow up release ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ (1993), blur revolutionised the sound of English popular music. Five successive UK #1 albums followed - with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity around the world with tracks like  ...

Bam Margera & F*ckface Unstoppable 2015 Aussie Tour

Being described as "a band that leaves you speechless" - (Must See This Live Blog), and "A fun unpredictable night, which was awesome for all" - (SF Media), F***face Unstoppable put on a live show second to none, which is as proficient musicianship wise, as it is with its highly outrageous and entertaining antics. The 2013 tour exceeded everyone's expectations with all the drama, debauchery, chaos, stunts, and nudity one could possibly pack into a live gig. Whilst all this mayhem is ...

2015 Spanish Film Festival Competition

This year’s Spanish Film Festival program exclusive to Palace Cinemas around Australia boasts 38 features from across Spain, Latin-America, and beyond, as varied as the ceramic tiles on a Gaudi masterpiece. The Festival will open with Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s SPANISH AFFAIR, which was seen by over two million people in the fortnight following its release in Spain. This comedic tale mischievously pokes fun at cultural differences as it tracks a young southerner who tenaciously seeks to ...

Peaches Australian Tour

Peaches' Australian tour will see her play four Groovin The Moo sideshows along the east coast and Perth in addition to her previously announced Groovin The Moo dates. The eccentric Canadian powerhouse is known for her wild live shows, which are full of theatrics and glitter. It's Peaches' first trip to the country since she played stellar shows on the Big Day Out in 2010. It's perfect timing too as she's got a new album titled RUB due out this year. RUB is her first studio album ...

Film series: Brought to light at the Art Gallery of NSW

It was probably the world’s first full-length feature film in 1906: The story of the Kelly gang. Australian cinema thrived during the silent era but the industry went into decline in the late 1920s as ever-expanding US and British production companies took over distribution and exhibition, often excluding Australian product from local cinemas. By the end of the 1960s, Australia had virtually no feature film production. The intervention of the Gorton and Whitlam governments in the early ...

Tkay Maidza M.O.B. 2015 National Tour

The first track from her upcoming and debut album is an anthem of ‘Money Over Bitches’ – mixing calypso beats with a lightning-fast emcee flow – delivered with Tkay’s now trademark energy. Tkay’s live performances have taken her from an online sensation, effortlessly tearing up the Hype Machine charts and raking in global recognition, to one of Australia’s youngest fearless performers. Carving up stages around the country this year already with The Falls Music & Arts ...