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Exhibition Celebrates Australia’s Antarctic Tradies

Posted on April 26, 2012 by admin
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antarctic photographyBrisbane Powerhouse presents Susan Gordon-Brown’s Down South 

Plumbers, electricians, cooks, radio operators and weather observers who ventured to Antarctica from 1947 to the 1980s will have their stories captured in Down South, Susan Gordon-Brown’s photo exhibition on at Brisbane Powerhouse from 9 – 26 May.

The exhibition coincides with the 100th anniversary of Sir Douglas Mawson’s first Australian Antarctic Expedition and features the untold stories of life in the Antarctic for Australian tradespeople. The portraits are accompanied by anecdotes about the harsh conditions, medical emergencies and everyday life in one of the loneliest places on earth and help to bring the realities of Antarctic exploration to life for visitors.

Susan Gordon-Brown said “When these tradespeople went to the Antarctic it was an epic adventure – the remote location, extreme conditions and none of the safety measures we have today were available. If the harbour was frozen you could be stuck there for another year, if your vehicles broke down you had to fix them with whatever was on hand.”

“The exhibition tells the stories of these Australians who were at the very frontline of Antarctic research – they used ingenuity to overcome obstacles and kept their sense of humour despite grim situations.”

Susan Gordon-Brown is a Brisbane-born photographer whose work has taken her around the world – from portraits of Bill Cosby, BB King and Stephen King to exhibitions focussing on religion and history. Susan’s work includes 56 Faces, a tribute to survivors of the 1956 Hungarian uprising as well as 40 Days, an exploration of cultural and religious practices in Australia.

Susan is also a member of the MAP group, a collection of Australian photographers who document important Australian issues and her photos of drought-ravaged Australia were featured in the group’s recently released book Beyond Reasonable Drought.

Brisbane Powerhouse is Brisbane City Council’s leading arts performance venue helping to deliver a vibrant and creative city.

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Help The Australian Body Art Carnivale!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by admin
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Australian Body Art Carnival 2012The Australian Body Art Carnivale is Australia’s premier body painting event with competitions in brush and sponge, airbrush, special effects and face painting. This free not for profit event also showcases many other art forms also including street / graffiti art, indigenous art, wearable art (fashion from recycled treasures) and street performers and buskers.

The theme for this year’s Carnivale (on May 12 and 13) is ‘Under the Sea’.

In keeping with the theme, organisers would love to have world champion sand sculptor Dennis Massoud create a huge sand sculpture onsite in Eumundi over the weekend, but they need community support to help fund the $1500 cost.

Money raised will fund the sand, having it prepared and for Dennis to attend and create a wonderful sandy work of art.

Dennis says people are attracted to sand sculpture like moths to a flame. “The art of sandsculpting touches a place in our hearts that we haven’t visited since we were children”.

If you’d like to see it happen, you can make a donation via crowdfunding platform Pozible Funding (www.pozible.com.au and search ‘Under the Sea’) and make sure you tell all your friends so they can donate too!

The Carnivale attracts over 15,000 people each year and attracts artists and spectators from across Australia. It is a fantastic festival of colour that appeals to all ages.

For all the information on the Carnivale visit our website – www.australianbodyart.com.au.

WHAT TO EXPECT @ THE 2012 AUSTRALIAN BODY ART CARNIVALE

The 2012 Australian Body Art Carnivale will be taking place on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May.

Australia’s premier body art event, the Carnivale is a colourful and creative festival experience for all ages, and is FREE for members of the public.

The Australian Body Art Carnivale is held annually in the artistic Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Eumundi, only 15 minutes from Noosa and around an hour north of Brisbane.

Event Manager Danielle Taylor says the event is nothing short of a ‘A Festival of Colour’ centred around body art in its many and varied forms.

“As the name suggests, the Australian Body Art Carnivale certainly has a strong focus on body art in its many and varied forms – from the more readily seen face painting right through to full body painting in the categories of brush and sponge, airbrush and special effects,” she says.

“For members of the public, it’s an event like nothing you’ve seen before to watch the human canvases take shape during the competitions,” she says.

“While we will have experienced body and make-up artists competing, body art experience is not a prerequisite,” says Danielle.  “Many entrants in previous Carnivales had never before painted on a body – they simply used their artistic flair to work on a very different canvas … the human body!”

And it’s not just body art competitions. The Carnivale will also host competitions and exhibitions in:

  • Wearable Art (fabulous fashion made from recycled treasures)
  • Vehicle Body Art – a Show & Shine comp for those with vehicles already painted, along with a Car Bonnet Art comp where artists paint a car bonnet
  • Photography (photo print + digital categories)

The competition theme for this year is “Under the Sea”, providing an absolute wealth of inspiration for artists as they compete for over $12,000 in cash and prizes.

The Carnivale will also see world-class street performers, buskers and bands, craft workshops, a Saturday Night Gala Event at Fig Tree Restaurant (ticketed) and a whole lot more.

Visit www.australianbodyart.com.au for more info, competition registration, sponsorship opportunities and to sign up to receive eNewsletters in the lead-up to the event.

The Australian Body Art Carnivale is a free non-for profit event thanks to the generosity of its funding partners and sponsors – Eumundi Chamber of Commerce, Eumundi Combined Community Organisation, Eumundi and District Community Association, the Eumundi and District Historical Association, the Original Eumundi Markets, Snazaroo Face Paints, Tourism Noosa, Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Discover Eumundi, Girlee Cosmetics, Always Wicked Art, Funtopia, Moz Theatre Entertainment, Hive Swimwear, Aussie Soles, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Jacaranda Creek Farmstay B&B, Solar Power Specialists, Gelignite Jacks, Firefly Solutions, Matt Blak, Buderim Ginger, Noosa News, Sunshine Coast Daily, Zinc 96.1FM, Crowne Plaza Pelican Waters, Rydges Resort Caloundra, Bundaberg Rum Distillery, Aussie World, Big Kart Track, Fiona’s Fancies, Sunstate Stamps, The Fig Tree, Eumundi Green, NewsXpress Eumundi, The Art Bank, Original Sales & Marketing, Infinity Eco Designs, Travel & Gourmet Passion, Eumundi Meats, Berkelouw Books, Tina Cooper Glass, Scotchmans Hill, Oyster Bay, Big 4 Forest Glen Holiday Resort, Pearls for Girls, Michelle Pike, Red Desert Gallery, Sala Thai Restaurant, All Things Christmas, Lief Chocolates, Community Projects Worldwide, Joe’s Waterhole, Jolie Femme Fashions Australia and Tewantin-Noosa RSL & Citizen’s Memorial Club Inc.

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Create/Control Announces Metric, The Jungle Giants & Opossom As First Signings

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin
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New label CREATE/CONTROL is very proud to announce the first clutch of international and local acts to join our roster. One of Canada’s mostsuccessful independent exports, METRIC will join Brisbane indie darlings THE JUNGLE GIANTS and New Zealand’s OPOSSOM as the first out of the blocks for the new artist-friendly independent label.

CREATE/CONTROL artists retain 100% of their copyright and receive significantly higher returns per sale. The experienced Marketing, Publicity and Promotion, Sync and Digital team behind Secret Service and Dew Process are behind every CREATE/CONTROL release. Artist agreements include flexible terms, distribution to all major digital retailers around the entire globe and physical CD distribution in Australia and New Zealand. Artists also have access to a state of the art online store so they can sell digital downloads, CDs and merch directly to their fans.

We have been overwhelmed and flattered by the response to the concept of our new label.  Our main premise that artists can get the best team working their record without parting with their copyright and independence seems to be the idea resonating with all those who contacted us thus far.

Fiercely independent band METRIC shed the traditional industry power structure and entanglements and created their own company Metric Music International (MMI) to release their smash hit album “Fantasies” which sold more than 500,000 albums and one million singles worldwide. Theyalso became the first artist in history to achieve their first ever Top 20 hit at US radio independently. Set on continuing their independence throughout the world METRIC will release their new album “Synthetica” in Australia and New Zealand with CREATE/CONTROL in mid June. Produced by Jimmy Shaw (Broken Social Scene) and mixed by John O’Mahony (The Grates, The Panics), METRICdeliver an enthralling balance of futuristic and organic sounds.

Brisbane’s THE JUNGLE GIANTS have been on a roll since their single ‘Mr Polite’ took over the airways. Since then they have hit the road for a sold out co-headline tour with San Cisco, and have just been announced as main support on Boy & Bear’s huge national tour. The highly-anticipated new EP for this collective is due out shortly!

Talented New Zealand producer Kody Nielson aka OPOSSOM will be releasing the debut album “Electric Hawaii” through CREATE/CONTROL in early June. After creating the album in his studio – writing, recording and producing it entirely himself – Nielson teamed up with Bic Runga and fellow former Mint Chicks bassist Michael Logie to create a live band. For a little taste of what’s to come, check out the video of ‘Getaway Tonight’ here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKd-KJ0mdQw.

With many more bands to be announced to the CREATE/CONTROL roster, the innovative new label is hitting the ground running with these three very different but equally exciting prospects.

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Flight Of The Conchords Touring Australia This July!

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin
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SATURDAY 7 JULY 2012
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
TICKETS ON SALE :  Tuesday 17 April
www.ticketek.com.au  or  132 849

The wait is over – New Zealand’s much loved folk comedy duo Flight Of The Conchords are finally coming to Australia! The Frontier Touring Company will be bringing Kiwi funny men Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement to visit fans on the other side of the Tasman for their first ever run of Australian headline shows this July.

Jemaine said of the announcement; ”We are finally returning to Australia. Mostly to apologise.”

In a buoyant career spanning almost fifteen years, Flight Of The Conchords has become one of Australia’s favourite comedy and musical acts, with the band gaining notoriety for their hilarious ditties including ‘Carol Brown’, ‘Foux Da Fafa’, ‘Epileptic Dogs’ and many more.

New Zealand’s self-proclaimed ‘fourth most popular folk-parody duo’ make musical comedy an art form. Throughout their live performances the duo picks up multiple instruments, including the ukulele, toy piano, keytar, synth and a ‘1987 DG-20 Casio electric guitar set to mandolin’ to create the sounds of some of the most bizarrely wonderful crowd singalongs heard on-stage.

After getting their start in stand up comedy, Bret and Jemaine created a radio series for BBC Radio 2 before launching into acclaimed HBO comedy series Flight Of The Conchords which propelled the duo into the limelight on a global scale. The series spanned two seasons and earned them a massive 10 Emmy nominations and a WGA nomination for Best Comedy Series.

The musical musings of Flight Of The Conchords formed the backbone of their much loved, self titled series and were celebrated in two highly successful soundtracks; Flight Of The Conchords and I Told You I Was Freaky (out now through Sub Pop). These albums earned the band six spots in the Triple J Hottest 100 over two years for hits like ‘Business Time’, ‘Hurt Feelings’ and ‘Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor’.

“It’s safe to say this is the most endlessly playable comedy album of the new millennium.” – Uncut   

“I Told You I Was Freaky is a smart, funny, musically vast album, giving everyone’s favourite Kiwis a chance to broaden the canvas of their twitchy, awkward, displaced brand of comedy.” – musicOMH

“Even shorn of their comedic context, the best of these tracks still have the power to rupture internal organs at 20 paces… What separates this from any other comedy pastiche is the quality of the songs.” – Pitchfork

Far from strangers to the spotlight, Flight Of The Conchords have come a long way from winning Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival more than a decade ago.

Most recently, both performers have been pursuing the big screen. Bret took on the role of Music Supervisor for The Muppets movie and recently won the Best Original Song Oscar for his composition Man Or Muppet. This track beat out its counterpart from the film Rio to win the award, a film that coincidentally featured Bret’s partner in crime and upcoming Men In Black III star Jemaine Clement.

It’s hard to pinpoint what has kept the duo from touring our shores all this time, was it band manager Murray’s inability to get the guys a gig outside of an aquarium, Bret’s commitments to his sign holding job or Jemaine’s fear that his Aussie ex-girlfriend Keitha would be waiting eagerly for his arrival? Regardless, one thing’s for sure – it’s going to be one heck of a good time.

Between the incredible songwriting, witty on stage banter and catchy melodies that will be stuck in your head for days,   Bret and Jemaine are reuniting once again for these very special shows to guarantee a night of fun that will leave you singing about ‘Sugarlumps’ and the epic ‘Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros’ rap battle for days afterwards.

Come hang out with New Zealand’s best export after sheep’s wool, as Flight Of The Conchords woo you with their fearless rhymes, tough urban beats and the best daggy jumpers their country has to offer.

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS

Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com/fotc

4pm AEST Thu 12 April to 4pm AEST Fri 13 April

General public on sale from 9am local time, Tuesday 17 April

 

Thu 5 July                            Sydney Opera House NSW                                          All Ages

sydneyoperahouse.com | Ph: (02) 9250 7777

Sat 7 July                             Brisbane Entertainment Centre QLD                       All Ages

ticketek.com.au  │ 132 849

 

Tue 10 July                          Newcastle Entertainment Centre NSW                 All Ages

ticketek.com.au  │132 849

 

Wed 11 July                       WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong NSW  All Ages

ticketek.com.au  │ 132 849

 

Fri 13 July                            Adelaide Entertainment Centre SA                         All Ages
ticketek.com.au  │ 132 849

 

Sat 14 July                           The Plenary, Melbourne VIC                                      All Ages

ticketmaster.com.au  │ 136 100

Wed 18 July                       Challenge Stadium, Perth WA                                   All Ages

ticketmaster.com.au  │ 136 100

 

www.flightoftheconchords.co.nz | www.facebook.com/FlightoftheConchords | www.twitter.com/fotc

 

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Easter School Holiday Fun at Eumundi Markets

Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin
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Hop along to Eumundi Markets this Easter holidays for a guaranteed great time.

Market Manager Peter Homan says Easter Saturday April 7 will be an exciting day at Eumundi Markets, with the annual Easter treasure hunt from 8am for children visiting Eumundi Markets.

“The treasure hunt is open to the first 300 kids who register at the market office on the day,” says Peter.

“Treasure hunters be given clues and they’ll find the answers as they wander through the markets under the trees,” he says. “When they complete their journey, they’ll each receive a delicious Easter treat.”

To take the Easter theme one step further, market stallholders will be wearing weird and wonderfully decorated hats. It’s like an Easter bonnet parade with a Mad Hatter twist!

Crafty kids visiting Eumundi Markets over the school holidays will also have the opportunity to get creative by taking part in kids craft workshops on Wednesday 4 April, Saturday 7 April (Easter Saturday), Wednesday 11 April and Saturday 14 April.

The workshops are being led by local craft queen and artist Merrie Tomkins. While the workshops are designed for children, big kids (teenagers and adults) are welcome to take part too – if spaces permit. Children under five must be accompanied by a carer – to help them with the tricky bits!

Eumundi Markets is renowned as the best art and craft market in Australia – where you can meet the artists and the makers face-to-face. Discover something different, something special, something handmade at our magical outdoor gallery under the trees.

Visit www.eumundimarkets.com.au or call (07) 5442 7106 for further information.

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Blakdance Australia Limited Launches Website

Posted on March 15, 2012 by admin
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BlakDance Website LaunchBlakDance Australia Limited is a newly formed peak body funded through the Australia Council for the Arts. The organisation has grown out of the Treading the Pathways initiative, which began in 2005 as a response to the Indigenous Dance industry.

BlakDance Australia Ltd is an advocate for Indigenous Contemporary Dance in Australia with the vision to contribute significantly to the cultural landscape of Australian Dance. For lovers of Dance who wish to witness a timeless and contemporary Culture, BlakDance Australia (and its community) is a business that embraces the richness and diversity of Australian Indigenous expression.

Invited guest Stephanie Dwyer said ‘BlakDance is a timely initiative and an inspiring concept. An intelligent approach is being taken to the development of BlakDance, as demonstrated by the pace of growth being determined by the community’. Lara Croydon of Queensland Theatre Company supported this by saying ‘there was a great deal of interest generated in the website and its functionality as well as interest in the aims of the company’.

BlakDance aims to support Australia’s Indigenous people and business. This was experienced through the Indigenous catering and entertainment at their website launch. The website showcases talented Indigenous Artists with its striking pictures. The map of different Indigenous areas that can be clicked for up-to-date information on the activity of Artists from that area is an exciting innovation. Chair of the BlakDance Board, Charles Jia said ‘in time this will contribute to greater promotion of Indigenous work to both the tourist market, creative industries and to all Australians’.

BlakDance LogoFor further information regarding BlakDance Australia Ltd and its exciting initiatives, please contact admin@blakdance.org.au or call +61 7 3220 3377.

www.blakdance.org.au www.facebook.com/BlakDance

IMAGE: BlakDance Board celebrate at website launch: Hartley Williams (Director), Tiina Alinen (CEO), Charles Jia (Chair) and Jeanette Cheung (Director)

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Ricky Maynard – Award-winning Indigenous Photography at Brisbane Powerhouse

Posted on March 6, 2012 by admin
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Ricky Maynard photography exhibitionBrisbane Powerhouse and Museum of Contemporary Art present Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land

Multi-award winning photographer Ricky Maynard has documented Australian Indigenous life for 20 years and his latest exhibition Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land is an alternative record of issues affecting rural and urban Indigenous Australians. The exhibition combines portrait and landscape photography and is on at Brisbane Powerhouse from 2 April to 7 May 2012.

Ricky Maynard has exhibited internationally and within Australia and his work focuses on documenting the lives and culture of Indigenous Australia, in particular Maynard’s own people, the Ben Lomond and Cape Portland peoples of Tasmania.

The exhibition encompasses two decades of Maynard’s practice and features images of Aboriginal Elders on the day of the High Court’s Wik decision, traditional Mutton-bird hunting, Aboriginals incarcerated in Adelaide and sacred sites and spaces.

“For me, photographs have always been personal and I hope to convey the intimacy of a diary. Photography has the ability to tell stories about the world and how the photograph has power to frame a culture,” said Maynard, describing his practice.

Born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1953 Maynard is a self-taught documentary photographer now based on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait. His career highlights including winning the 1994 Mother Jones International Prize, 1996 Human Rights Commission Photography Award and the 2003 Kate Challis RAKA Award for Indigenous Contemporary Creative Arts. Maynard’s work was featured at the Australian Embassy as part of the inaugural Paris Photoquai Biennale in 2007, organised by the Musée du quai Branly.

The six photographic series by Maynard featured in the exhibition are The Moonbird People (1985-88), No More Than What You See (1993), Urban Diary (1997), In The Footsteps of Others (2003), Returning To Places That Name Us (2000) and Portrait of a Distant Land (2005- ). Together these works create a form of visual diary of multiple landscapes derived from collective oral histories of Maynard’s people.

Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land is an MCA Australia touring exhibition curated by Keith Munro, curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs.

Brisbane Powerhouse is Brisbane City Council’s leading arts performance venue helping to deliver a vibrant and creative city.

Date Tue 3 April – Sun 6 May

Time Mon: 9am – 5pm, Tue – Sun: 9am – 9pm

Venue Brisbane Powerhouse

Info 07 3358 8600 or brisbanepowerhouse.org

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Brisbane Scores Skrillex’s Only Australian Club Show

Posted on March 3, 2012 by admin
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DIVIDE and CONQUER … the only Australian club show from EDM’s controversial top-dog, the three-time Grammy-award winning, Skrillex, is confirmed for Brisbane.
Playing a two hour DJ set on Saturday March 10 at premier Fortitude Valley nightspot, The MET, the official midnight announcement coincided with tickets going on-sale from Oztix and Moshtix.

“It’s not conventional, we know,” said The MET’s Director of Entertainment, Michael Watt.

“But Skrillex isn’t about convention.

“We went out on Twitter and Facebook because that’s where fans are.

“With all the discontent and disgruntledness of the last few days about ticket-sites crashing and scalping, we thought opening for sale at exactly the same time we announced might be a fairer way to go.

“There’s no lead-up marketing, so it’s a risk, but we’re confident fans will spread the word.”
Touring Australia as part of the Future Music Festival, which starts in Brisbane today, Skrillex’s Brisbane ‘Met’ gig next Saturday is one of only two Australian side-shows.
The other, on March 7, at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre is already sold out.

Skrillex will play at ‘Future’ in Sydney on March 10 and then fly to Brisbane for his night-time ‘MET’ set.

“We’re expecting it will sell pretty quickly,” said Watt of the Brisbane exclusive, which is Over 18′s only.

Tickets are a gaspingly low $50 plus booking fee and are available from www.moshtix.com.au or www.oztix.com.au or www.themet.com.au .

Tickets started selling within minutes of going on sale.

This is Skrillex’s third visit to Australia in as many years – he played a range of club gigs in 2010 in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and was on the bill for Creamfields in 2011.

Refusing to be restricted by current music genres, the one-man machine-maestro has described his sound as, “a mix of dubstep, electro and glitch all thrown together.”

DETAILS:

WHO:                                      SKRILLEX
WHERE:                                 The MET
ADDRESS:                              256 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley
WHEN:                                    Saturday 10 March
DOORS OPEN:                      9pm
TIX FROM:                             www.moshtix.com.au
www.oztix.com.au
www.themet.com.au
PRICE:                                    $50 + booking fees

 

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RADIOHEAD – Tour Announcement

Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin
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Admirers of seminal alternative rock and genre-bending music take notice; Chugg Entertainment today announces the landmark return of Radiohead to Australia and New Zealand. It has been nearly a decade since the Oxford bred five-piece last graced Australian shores in 2004, and a staggering 14 years since playing in New Zealand in 1998. It is safe to say that their welcome return is certain to be the live music milestone of the year.

Murmurs of a return to our corner of the globe have been rife for years now, even more so in this era of social media with nothing remaining secret for long. Radiohead, however, manage to defy this with their celebrated return being one of the biggest and best kept secrets this year; something to be expected from a band shrouded in mystery, everything they do an enigma. In 2011 following their guerrilla Glastonbury set in June where they appeared as a ‘surprise guest,’ September saw them catch New York City audiences unawares with the announcement, only one week out, of two intimate shows at the Roseland Ballroom.

Radiohead will perform six shows only this November, starting at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Tuesday 6th November, then Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 9th November, two shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th November, and two shows in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November. Tickets for all shows go on sale in just three days time at 9am (local time) on Thursday 1st March. For a band that is headlining major festivals across the globe, these Australian shows in relatively intimate settings are a clear indicator of a band that does things their own way.

With a long-standing reputation steeped in genre-redefining motions throughout their more than 20 year career, Radiohead have proved themselves to be one of the most influential bands of our generation, forever appealing to the public appetite with their ever evolving cut-and-paste sonic collages. From the band’s earlier style of melodic rock songs accompanied by dense riffs and ethereal atmospheres, through to their later experimentation with song structures, incorporating ambient, avant-garde and electronic influences.

In the mid-1980s school friends Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar, synthesizers) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion) formed a group called “On A Friday” referring to the band’s usual rehearsal day in their school’s music room. From a beginning in the progressive indie scene of the late 1980s in Oxfordshire, they began to garner attention from critics and music labels alike and in 1991 signed a six-album recording contract with EMI.

From early releases Pablo Honey (1993) and The Bends (1995), it was their third studio album OK Computer (1997) which well and truly catapulted the group to international fame with the album often being acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s with Thom Yorke’s maudlin lyrics polished by the ensemble’s three-guitar thrust which relied on texture instead of virtuosity.

Their follow up albums – both recorded at the same time – Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) marked a watershed in the band’s career, with their sound ripening and becoming far more diversified, appropriating underground styles from Kraut-rock to minimalistic electronic beats and experimentation with less overt guitar parts.

Radiohead’s ever increasing ambition saw the delivery of Hail To The Thief (2003), a nod to their political musings (so titled in honour of George W. Bush’s ‘stolen’ presidential election). An album relatively direct in structure yet retaining elements of the experimentation of its predecessors.

Their seventh studio offering, In Rainbows (2007), saw Radiohead once again show that they are more than just musicians, but artists who create a sensory encounter that can transcend the studio and stage, lacing together Yorke’s melancholic lines with up-tempo compositions. In what some say was a revolt against the commercially-driven powerhouse of major music labels, In Rainbows was released online to fans as a ‘pay what you want’ download through the band’s website.

With their eighth studio album, The King of Limbs (2011), yet another piece of rarified beauty was delivered; a record that pushes electro-chirrups and synth-sweeps into the forefront, seeing the band reinvestigating their love of computer-driven music. Eerie and insidious, lascivious and visceral, Radiohead once again breached new sonic territories with this dynamic release.

Radiohead’s return to Australia & New Zealand will showcase the band’s multi-decade career in an aural and visual celebration. As a live band they transform their creations into an experience both towering and incandescent. Be sure to be part of the journey. No shows will be added to the tour – do not miss out.

TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS ON SALE THURSDAY 1ST MARCH, 9AM (local time)

RADIOHEAD : TOUR DETAILS

Tuesday 6th November             Vector Arena, Auckland

www.ticketmaster.co.nz

Friday 9th November                 Entertainment Centre, Brisbane

www.ticketek.com.au 132 849

Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th November   Entertainment Centre, Sydney

www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100

Friday 16th & Saturday 17th November           Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

www.ticketek.com.au 132 849

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Gold Tickets At Silver Prices Tim McGraw & Faith Hill

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin
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Gold tickets for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s final Brisbane show on Sunday 25th March are selling now at silver prices ($99*) for a limited time only.

The $50 saving means fans can double-down on a three artist line up that includes Tim and Faith, performing separately and together, and the hottest new country kids on the block, the Eli Young Band.

With two shows already sold out on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March, this is Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s final Brisbane show, second last in the country and one of only seven shows on this tour the world over!

Exclusive to Australia, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill touring together in concert for the first time in five years, and the first time ever outside North America.

Gold tickets at silver prices available now from www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849.

Sunday 25th March, Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

* Includes GST and Booking Fees. Transactions Fee may apply.

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