Day: 17 January 2011

The Holidays win the AMP's Red Bull award for Best Debut Release!

The 5th Red Bull Award for Best Debut Release has been awarded to Sydney’s The Holidays as part of the 6th Australian Music Prize. The Red Bull Award has long recognised outstanding potential, with the 2010 prize renewing its focus to concentrate on debut albums only. The Holiday’s “Post Paradise” earned a raft of critic’s…

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Gareth Liddiard to engage on a Strange Tour with Dan Kelly

Gareth Liddiard Strange Tour With Special Guest Dan Kelly Tix on Sale Now Gareth Liddiard’s solo album Strange Tourist was released last October. The album and the shows that followed left audiences enthralled. Songs like wrecking balls bookended with hilarious observations and repartee prompted one critic to note, “…the genuine applause that follows each song…

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The Black Keys pull out of Big Day Out – Paul Dempsey and/or Kora to fill in.

The Big Day Out is disappointed to announce that The Black Keys will be unable to perform on any of the 2011 Big Day Out events in Australia or New Zealand due to exhaustion. The band have provided the following information as explanation to event patrons and fans: “The Black Keys are sorry to announce…

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Bob Dylan and his band announce East Coast tour and special show with BB King in Adelaide.

Mr Bob Dylan – celebrated poet, artist, singer, writer, actor and radio announcer – will send legions of fans back once more to all those wonderful songs and albums, as he returns after close to four years for a tour taking in Australian capital cities and festival appearances in Byron Bay for Bluesfest and Fremantle…

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WOMADelaide: Seven more acts announced, completing a line-up of over 550 artist from 32 countries.

The wait is over for tens of thousands of fans of WOMADelaide – Australia’s premier music festival – as organisers today announced another seven groups to complete an incredible line-up of over 550 artists from 34 countries for the March 2011 event. WOMADelaide will for the second time only be staged as a four-day event…

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