It’s 1.30am this morning and I still can’t get to sleep after last night’s epic feast of luscious tunes from the legendary UK band, The Cure.  My eyes were stuck in an 80’s View-Master, flickering and reliving the stage – Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and the rest of the sensational band, singing and playing song after song after song and then some.  Absolute …

Where to begin when discussing last night’s awesome excessiveness of 80’s music at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney? After waiting so many months for the concert tour to finally make its way around the country, I wasn’t going to let 5 days of illness keep me locked away.  Instead, I dosed up on medication, blocked out whatever pain I still had and danced …

It might have been the coldest day of the year (so far!) in Melbourne but that didn’t keep the fans away from the Leo Sayer and Lulu concert at Hamer Hall on Friday night.  A long-time fan of Leo Sayer, I have seen him perform numerous times, and have never gone away disappointed. Leo is one of those entertainers who …

GRACE KNIGHT : FRAGILE Grace Knight’s latest album Fragile is beautiful and, at times, haunting; a lovely collection of folk and Celtic songs that the listener can easily listen to any time of the day or night. It is an album of hope and love, an album that you cannot help but feel relaxed and happy when listening to it. …

Photography: Dot Hopkins This was only the second Day on the Green to be held in Nagambie. The first, in January 2014, was a great success and Saturday’s event was certainly a big hit with the fans. With a very impressive all-star line-up that featured Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier, Models, Diesel, Baby Animals and headliners, Icehouse, how could you …

Rooty Hill RSL Monday, 4th January 2016 Thanks to Suzanne Bunker for this review   January 4th 2016 would have been Doc Neeson’s 69th birthday. Here we were 19 months after he lost his life to brain cancer to celebrate his birthday, life and music. The night opened with young singer and guitarist Natasha Duarte playing a set of acoustic …

LIVE WIRE by Mary Renshaw, John D’Arcy and Gabby D’Arcy First Published 2015 by Allen and Unwin.   Review by Sharyn Hamey There are numerous books out there about Bon Scott but very few written by those who had an intimate knowledge of the man behind the rock star. Mary Renshaw, Gabby D’Arcy and John D’Arcy are three of those people. …

Jon Stevens’ latest solo album Woman was released in September through Social Family Records. It is Jon’s first solo album since 2011 and it screams I am back! Recorded in Sydney with producer Sam Iervasi, the album is a solid rock album with some great guitar sounds throughout the 10 tracks and a few surprises including a rapper on track …

ROCKWIZ LIVE! SALUTES THE ARIA HALL OF FAME – Palais Theatre Melbourne, Thursday 8th October 2015   On Thursday night, I had the pleasure of going along to ‘RocKwiz Live! Salutes the ARIA Hall of Fame’ at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. It was the first of two such shows in Melbourne; the second being the following night. But there …

log Photo courtesy Bob King    (copyright)     It was a bittersweet occasion… the Gimme That Guitar Concert – a Tribute to Harvey James, held at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre last month, on an incredibly hot summer’s night, honoured one of Australia’s best and most loved musicians. The guitarist had planned to perform at this show, just as he had done with remarkable strength and …