Frontier Touring has announced that David Byrne, formerly Talking Heads lead singer will bring his American Utopia World Tour to Australia in November 2018.
David Byrne will perform songs from his acclaimed new album American Utopia along with much of his back catalogue from his solo career and time with Talking Heads. A 12-piece band will support David Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson choreographed concert that he has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.”
David Byrne, one of the great innovators in music going back to his Talking Heads day has announced four Australian dates to take place this November, in Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. He was last in Australia for shows with St. Vincent five years ago, but he hasn’t come out for his own tour since his 2009, when he was on his David Byrne and Brian Eno tour.
When announcing that he would be gigging in 2018, David Byrne said that the tour he had pulled together was his most ambitious since making the Stop Making Sense film. David Byrne plays the following shows:
Tuesday 20 November – ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney Wednesday 21 November – Convention Centre, Gold Coast Saturday 24 November – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Sunday 25 November – AEC Arena, Adelaide
Tickets are on sale from Monday 18 June.
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Daryl Braithwaite, singer of perennial karaoke favourite The Horses, is the latest Australian musician and performer to be inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame.
The Aria Hall of Fame honour comes 45 years into Daryl Braithwaite’s career, which began in the 1970s with the band Sherbet, who had an international hit with “Howzat” in 1976.
The 68-year-old has since found success as a solo artist, including two multi-platinum albums, Edge and Rise.
It was Daryl Braithwaite’s version of the Rickie Lee Jones song “The Horses”, which appeared on Rise in 1991, that became his signature song. In 2015, a short-lived Change.org petition circulated to make the song Australia’s official national anthem and, at the Beyond the Valley festival in January 2016, 1980s revivalists Client Liaison brought Daryl Braithwaite on to the stage to perform the classic, in celebration of its 25th anniversary.
Daryl Braithwaite later said; “That was a thrill. I honestly didn’t know, will people know the song? Will people be accepting of me? I was coming into their domain, it wasn’t my area. That was most definitely a moment.”
Since then, Daryl Braithwaite has been added to this year’s Falls festival line-up, alongside artists such as Flume and Liam Gallagher.
Daryl Braithwaite says of “The Horses”: “It’s a strange, exciting, situation with that song … trying to fathom why it is so endearing to people. I’ve spoken to Rickie Lee Jones about it and, like myself, she doesn’t know. But it continues on”.
Daryl Braithwaite performed the song with Jones herself during her Australian tour in April. He also recently sung it at Perth’s Beer Fest, where he discovered young fans who weren’t even born when his albums were released: “It was about 3,000 people and they were mainly in their 20s … It was quite staggering and it’s strange because I’ve been doing it for 40-odd years and it’s still as enjoyable now, if not more, than when I started out,” he said. “I can’t figure it out. All I know is that I love it. I love performing, I love people, doesn’t matter what age.”
Sherbet were inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame in 1990 and Daryl Braithwaite will now be rewarded again when he is acknowledged as a solo artist at next month’s Aria awards: “I feel very honoured to be inducted into the Aria hall Of fame, in an industry that I started out in because I was so passionate about it. It’s been a great journey and life through music.”
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James Blunt has announced he will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2018 and has indicated Ed Sheeran might join him on stage.
James Blunt is currently supporting Ed Sheeran on tour in the US ( playing second fiddle as “Sheeran’s bitch” ) and the pair will both be in Australia in March, with the strong possibility of an onstage collaboration.
James Blunt, who came to fame in 2005 with his pervasive hit You’re Beautiful, recently released his fifth album The Afterlove which includes a song co-written with Ed Sheeran called Make Me Better.
James Blunt will be headlining his own tour across Australia and New Zealand, including some A Day On The Green shows in wineries and gardens. However he has no qualms being on his present tour as Ed Sheeran’s support, stating: “I think my ambition has always been to be Ed Sheeran’s bitch and it’s a job I really love,” he said. “I can’t tell you how awesome this gig is. I play for 40 minutes before him, that means I’m off stage two hours before him, that means I’ve two hours extra drinking time ahead of him and he’s playing catch-up.”
James Blunt, who is known as much for his sarcastic humour (which he displays regularly via his Twitter account – if you are not a follower, become one as his tweets are hilarious!! ) as he is for his love songs, has enjoyed testing out his recent album on Ed Sheeran’s fans.
Blunt commented: “I have no pressure, I’m playing to his audience and they don’t know what to expect and I’ve got nothing to lose except win them over and it’s been such fun. It’s also been a great place to try out new songs and practise new songs so that by the time I get down to the important place of Australia I know what I’m doing.”
James Blunt will perform in New Zealand from 6th March 2018 and in Australia from 10th March 2018.
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After a fan had a cardiac arrest at her Sydney gig last week, Adele facilitated a more pleasant heart stopping moment with a marriage proposal on stage in Melbourne.
Wade Nicholson-Doyle took his boyfriend, Chris, to the Melbourne Adele gig as a 40th birthday present. When Adele called the couple from the crowd onto the stage, Mr Nicholson-Doyle dropped to one knee and proposed. A loud cheer went up from the 77,000 fans in the stadium.
“Did you say yes?” Adele joked, before embracing the couple. She continued: “I actually had no idea that was going to happen. Congratulations.”
Wade Nicholson-Doyle said he was momentarily unaware of the screaming crowd. He commented: “It just kind of blacked out and all I could see was Chris and Adele standing there. To share the stage with her, if only for five minutes, is really incredible. We’re very much in her debt.”
Same-sex marriage is not legal in Australia. A proposal for a vote on the issue was blocked in parliament last year.
Despite this Wade Nicholson-Doyle said they would hold a celebration with friends and family in Australia, adding: “We’ve made no plans yet. I think Chris’s head is still spinning at the moment.”
It was only last week that Adele confirmed to Australian concert goers that she too was married.
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AB Original, the hip-hop duo of the rapper and actor Briggs and the producer Trials, has become the first Indigenous act to win the $30,000 Australian Music prize, beating shortlisted artists including Nick Cave and the Avalanches.
Briggs said the win, which they accepted at an event in Melbourne on Thursday night, was a “reflection of all the artists that came before us, who allowed us to be able to walk up tonight and win this”, listing Archie Roach, Kutcha Edwards and Ruby Hunter among others, “All these artists paved the way for artists like us to be able to achieve this. It’s because of them, they made the foundation. So I think that’s what us walking up tonight and accepting this thing is going to be about.”
Also shortlisted for this year’s award were DD Dumbo, Big Scary, Camp Cope, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Olympia and the Peep Tempel.
AB Original won the Australian Music prize for their debut album, Reclaim Australia, a title that plays on the name of the far-right group of so-called “patriots”, and is an album with a strong political narrative. Briggs said: “Our record hasn’t been done before, from this point of view at this level. So I guess this [win] reflects that too.”
The Reclaim Australia album included the single January 26, a song challenging Oz to change the date of Australia Day. Last year, as Triple J faced pressure to move its Hottest 100 broadcast to a more inclusive day, a Facebook campaignencouraged listeners to vote for the song in solidarity with the protesters. The song ended up in the top 20 of the countdown.
When asked if their placing in the Hottest 100 felt like a political or artistic achievement, Trials said it was both: “You can’t really have one without the other. We could have obviously talked all that shit without having a kick-arse song.” Briggs said: “Third layer – it was also an ironic achievement.” whilst Trials added: “January 26 ended up being the main song that set all this off but hopefully people discovered the other messages in there too. Its [success] is a reflection of the time right now.”
Dave Faulkner, the chairman of the judging panel and a member of the Hoodoo Gurus, said: “Reclaim Australia is more than just a great Australian album, it’s a cultural landmark … It hits hard politically, musically and emotionally and the stories AB Original are telling are ones we all need to hear right now.”
The final comments are with Briggs and Trials who have yet to decide on what they would be spending the money on but a second album isn’t off the table: “We’re independent artists man, it costs us to make records – that’s where this is going,” Briggs said. “If we had some reach and pissed some people off with this record, you wait till we have $30,000 for the next one.”
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Australian rock band Midnight Oil have announced their first world tour in over 15 years, and their biggest world tour since the early 1990s, which will open with a pub gig in Sydney.
Midnight Oil disbanded in 2002, but have played several one-off shows since 2009. The Midnight Oil tour will begin in April with a pub gig in Sydney, before moving to Brazil, the US, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. It will then return to Australia in October and November, closing at Sydney’s The Domain on 11 November.
The full Midnight Oil tour was announced at a press event on a rocky boat anchored on Sydney Harbour. Invited members of the press were joined by the lead singer Peter Garrett, who retired from politics in 2013, supported by guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter Jim Moginie, guitarist Martin Rotsey, bassist Bones Hillman and drummer Rob Hirst.
At the press conference Midnight Oil also announced the release of three box sets: a complete vinyl collection, the Full Tank CD collection (including all their existing albums and EPs), and the Overflow Tank, which will include 14 hours of unreleased and rare material across four CDs and 8 DVDs.
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When the Guns N’ Roses announcer shouted “Hello Sydney” just before the band walked on stage in Melbourne, they were not surprisingly met with a chorus of boos.
However Guns N’ Roses made up for it with an electrifying gig and a swiftly released apology on Twitter: “Melbourne! Accidentally after 30 years McBob made an error, we’re truly sorry. Thank you for coming out tonight!”
Luckily Guns N’ Roses guitar technician McBob, who has been introducing the band on stages around the world during their Not In This Lifetime tour, was quickly forgiven by fans in Melbourne for his momentary lapse of concentration. One follower replied to the post with: “One mistake every 30 years… Reasonable.” ( The Record Press author is pondering what exactly is a guitar technician? Is that what we used to call the roadie fella that tunes the guitar? )
In fairness Guns N’ Roses had just completed two nights in Sydney, so it seems to me that it’s perfectly reasonable that a combination of old age, senility and coach / jet lag from the 500 mile trip from Sydney to Melbourne quite naturally coalesced to create this classic scenario of disorientation and confusion!! Add drugs to the mix and Melbournites should count themselves lucky that Guns N’ Roses made it on stage at all!!
Anyway it simply adds spice to the long-running rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne!!
Let us know in the Reply Box below which city is better and why.
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Amy Winehouse’s guitar, record collection and some of her most iconic outfits will go on display in Melbourne.
Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait (1983-2011) was originally curated by the Jewish Museum London with help from Amy’s brother, Alex, and her sister-in-law, Riva, and will be exhibited at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne.
The Amy Winehouse exhibition, which launched in London in 2013, features personal items from the late singer’s collection including her guitar, records and outfits. The exhibition has already travelled to San Francisco, Vienna, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam and, in October, the Jewish Museum will host the exhibition exclusively in Australia.
Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning almost six years ago at age 27. She won five Grammy awards for her album Back to Black, which was released in 2006 and sold more than 12m copies.
• Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait (1983-2011) runs from 22nd October 2017 at the Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
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Ed Sheeran returned to Australia last night with a surprise performance on the Hit Network’s World Famous Rooftop…but with a bit of a difference.
The secret gig for 80 incredibly lucky Hit Network listeners was on top of Victoria’s iconic Hanging Rock in the Macedon Ranges, in Victoria.
Despite storms and rain during the performance didn’t dampen spirits as Ed Sheeran extended his set time to perform extra songs for appreciative fans.
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Bruce Springsteen has once again lashed out at Donald Trump, this time criticising his immigration ban on Muslims during a gig in Australia.
Whilst introducing the song American Land at a show in Adelaide on 30th January, Bruce Springsteen commented: “Tonight we wanted to add our voices to the thousands of Americans who are protesting in airports around our country the Muslim ban and detention of foreign nationals and refugees. America is a nation of immigrants, and we find this anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American.”
Bruce Springsteen was joined in his condemnation of the announced temporary US travel ban by other musicians, including Rihanna, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and John Legend. Most notable, perhaps, was Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme who took to Instagram to label Trump a “shallow, inept, multi-bankrupt declaring, narcissistic, narrow-minded, out of touch, objectifying, barf-inducing, fascist, clown penis … who also happens to be re-stup-redicu-lame”.
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June 12th, 2018 
Simon Sterland 
an Annie-B Parson choreographed concert that he has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.”
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