Hundreds of damp punks in a Prison Yard watching The Sex Pistols – what could be a better or more fitting way to end a tour on a Friday evening in Fremantle? We started the […]
Welcome to the 8424 Tour… 40 years of The Cult. Sometimes it seems like forever, but when that old friend returns you always greet them with open arms. The Cult is back in Australia for […]
It’s hard to go past a more perfect double bill than Buckcherry and Rose Tattoo – I mean it has it all: one of Australia’s finest vintage Rock acts and the band that rekindled Rock […]
We all know Rock and Roll ain’t dead, but all the proof you need of its beating and diverse heart was on display tonight at Perth’s best kept secret Dive Bar – ‘Eleven’ buried deep […]
Over the years everything has conspired against me seeing Hugh Cornwall live: weddings, weather and once many years ago a breakdown on the way to Sheffield that saw me arrive ten minutes after he’d departed […]
It’s taken 45 years for The Skids to visit Australia, and that of course is a literal lifetime for many, but you now what? It was worth the wait! This is a night of […]
After seeing John Waite live for the first time tonight all I can say is that for those that missed out on this first visit to Australia you really missed something very special indeed. Waite, […]
This year Perth gets treated to the first date on Stiff Little Fingers 40th Anniversary Tour which for us at least has managed to creep into their 41st year. After a break since the November […]
It’s certainly been a while but Rock N’ Roll outlaws, Rose Tattoo who just recently announced their 20018 Blood Brothers tour, are back in town for the first time in over eight years.It’s a tour […]
After a build up of a soundtrack containing some of the best British music from the last 40 years geeing up the crowd, it’s an unassuming and rather casual primal scream that takes to the […]
The legend that is Anvil, a band that has truly seen the ups and downs of a career in the music industry returned to Perth on not only the final show of the Australian […]
Whatever your views on the early 80’s Metal and Rock scenes and whatever your take on ‘theatrical rock’ of that period there’s little doubt that back in the day W.A.S.P. were a force to be […]
Over the years Sebastian Bach has become an ever more frequent visitor to Australia, usually with a new album for us when he arrives. This time though his latest release has been his Autobiography ’18 […]
Now this is the sort of bill Rock fans dream of: not only do we get one of Rock’s all-time great showmen, but we also get a nice side-order of Kiss’ original guitarist Ace Frehley, […]
There’s a new or rather a re-kindled Rock venue North of the River in Perth – ‘TheSixty30’ a venue named after its postcode and which despite its limited capacity has a greats sound to it […]
When you read a show billed as ‘Glenn Hughes performs classic Deep Purple Live in Concert’ preceded by ‘For the first time in 40 years’ you are immediately hit by the sheer history of […]
The Seventies was of course the best decade for music ever, when even the bad stuff was good and all of the really important forms of popular music either burned briefly and died or were given […]
Australia was of course once the spiritual home of the ‘cover band’ – a land so far away from where everything was happening that even our greatest assets decamped overseas, and those that made it […]
It’s not often you get a triple bill as good as this making its way down to Australia but tonight in Perth we were treated to a night of Rock that will take some real […]
The Darkness are getting to be semi-regular visitors to Australia these days – just 18 months after their last visit in support of their latest album ‘Last of Our Kind’ they’re back again before […]
We got our dancing shoes on and they finally came… The masters of British Rock are finally here in Australia and only a mere 28 years after forming. Still on the strength of the four […]
Perth does get some good things first and tonight it’s the first date of The Dandy Warhols’ ‘Distortland’ Tour. If you don’t know the Dandy’s you’ve probably heard them, but tonight is all about […]
When you look at the long-stayers on the Rock scene people often overlook The Cure, a band formed 40 years ago way back in another world, 1976 the days of vinyl and tape, when […]
Steel Panther – our love affair with them began an ocean away in a small club on the Sunset Strip where they were one of the ‘must see’ bands on any visit to tinsel-town. […]
It’s a humid Saturday night in Fremantle and Metros is suitably packed for the visit of UK legends The Stranglers, a band I’ve always rather pleasingly found hard to define. If you judge a […]
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