Splendour in the Grass 2015
In 2015 Splendour’s Amphitheatre, Mix Up, GW McLennan and Tiny Dancer stages will bring you over 100 of the most awesome acts touring the planet right now. And with a program that spans the full three days of the festival, Tiny Dancer will be jumping to the tune of Australia’s preeminent DJs! From revered internationals to the freshest homegrown acts of today, they’re on their way to Byron Bay!
At some point though you’ll need a break from stage hopping, and when you do….
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Angélique Kidjo 2015 Australian Tour
Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award winner, tireless campaigner for women’s health and education in Africa, a UNICEF Peace Ambassador and also, with a 20 year discography, 12 albums and thousands of concerts around the world, a gifted performer and prolific songwriter. On Eve, her latest album, and Savoy Records debut, named for her own mother as well as the mythical “mother of all living,” the Benin born, singer/songwriter builds on this ever-evolving legacy. She has collaborated ...
Mogwai 2015 Australian Tour
As befits their wide-screen nature the six-piece Glaswegian outfit won’t be doing things by halves either, taking in a two-night stand at Perth International Arts Festival (with special guest: Dinosaur J frontman J Mascis), a headline spot at Adelaide Festival‘s Thebarton Theatre, debut performances at both the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall and Melbourne’s famed Hamer Hall, a return slot at the Tivoli in Brisbane PLUS the band’s first ever visit to New Zealand – how’s that for ...
FLiCKERFEST 2015 Australian Tour
More than 20 stunning cinema shorts will be screened across three thrilling nights, all handpicked from the Academy® accredited and BAFTA recognised festival’s record 2400 entries.
Audiences will be blown away by the assortment of cinematic stories on offer, including hot tub entanglements, ice cream frenzies, mischievous mechanical mishaps, late-night radio revelations, runaway chickens, fearless fathers, fly-away mothers and sparring siblings.
Australian FLiCKERFEST filmmakers ...
The Antlers 2015 Australian Tour
Having long ago transcended their lo-fi bedroom project roots in favour of lush soundscapes and dreamy atmospherics, 2014 has been a huge year for The Antlers who in June released their fifth studio album, Familiars, to not unexpected fanfare. Pitchfork heaped praise on the release, gushing, “Familiars is the latest satisfying effort from a band that continues to reward those listeners who give them the attention their elegant, secretly weird music deserves”, while The A.V. Club ...
Angus & Julia Stone Australian Summer Tour
The Sydney Opera House Forecourt show will be a highlight of the inaugural week-long ‘On the Steps’ series of outdoor concerts, presented by the Opera House and Live Nation as part of the 2014-15 Summer at the House line-up.
Currently on an extensive world tour, Angus & Julia Stone recently finished a sold out North American tour playing to capacity houses in New York, LA, Washington, Boston and San Francisco. This month they embark on a massive six-week 30-date headline tour of ...
Eddie Izzard 2015 Force Majeure Tour
Izzard’s capital city tour will see the comic play stages in Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide as well as a special Sydney performance on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House with the Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.
“Force Majeure” is the most extensive comedy Izzard has ever undertaken. Launched in March 2013, this tour has taken Eddie to more than 25 countries on 5 continents, including Russia, the UK, Canada, America, India, Nepal and now Australia.
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Lamb 2015 Australian Tour
First forming in Manchester in 1995, Lamb's 1996 self-titled genre-bending debut album delivered intensely personal, emotionally charged songs intertwined with startling drum n bass beats in in a collision of jazz, classical, blues, techno & hip hop that defined an era of trip hop.
Singles 'Gold', 'God Bless', 'Cotton Wool' and 'Górecki' have been critically and commercially successes. In particular, 'Górecki' - inspired by the works of composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki - has ...
Sinead O’Connor – ‘I’m not bossy, I’m the Boss’ Australian Tour 2015
Recently returning with an album that is both one of the artistic high points of her storied career and a worthy successor to 2012’s rapturously received How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? Infusing the spirit of funky blues with a fresh exploration the age-old theme of romantic love I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss is a tour de force and signals a new confidence in song writing for an artist who was until recently perhaps more renowned as a vocalist.
The truly great songwriters realize ...
Michael Palin – Live on Stage Australian Tour
In the past year Michael Palin has rediscovered the joys of live performance, finding himself relearning lines about dead parrots and Spanish Inquisitions that he’d written long ago for 10 Monty Python live shows at the 02 Arena in London in July.
Michael Palin – Live on Stage combines Michael Palin’s love for travel & comedy. A whistle-stop tour of the globe, reliving the highlights, the lowlights, the adventures and stuff-ups of his extraordinary life travelling the world to ...
