ALEX FORMOSA BAUDO chats to Rock Club 40 about Communication – The Marc Hunter Songbook   On 17th July 1998, the Australian music scene lost one of its most popular, gifted and enigmatic performers when Marc Hunter lost his battle with cancer, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy of music that lives on in the hearts and minds of millions. Most …

  The Sacred Heart Mission in St. Kilda, Melbourne, has been lending a helping hand and providing support to the area’s homeless and those living in poverty since 1982. The Mission provides an invaluable service to those in need.  Now in its ninth year, The Heart of St. Kilda Concert is an annual event that aims to raise much needed …

  This Saturday 3rd September, Melbourne’s iconic Palais Theatre will be bursting at the seams with some of the biggest hits of the 50s, 70s, 80s and 90s when Tribute Mania comes to town for its debut show. Featuring five of the biggest and best tribute acts, Tribute Mania will have the fans singing the classic hits from The Beatles, …

PHOTO: DOT HOPKINS   Back2Back is back on the road this month, bringing audiences a series of shows that will showcase two classic Beatles albums, Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper’s. The production features the vocals of four amazing artists, Russell Morris, Jack Jones, Kav Temperley and  U.K. artist, Jon Allen, backed by fifteen incredibly talented musicians. These two albums were …

It’s been a big year for country rock sensations, The Wolfe Brothers.  With the recent announcement of the ‘This Crazy Life’ tour in celebration of their fabulous, chart topping, new album, we chat to bassist Tom Wolfe about what fans can expect from the new music, the tour and the other artists involved. So it seems that 2016 has been the ‘Year of …

When TMG drummer Herm Kovac called to say ‘It looks like we might get the band back together  and we’d like to know if you would like to be part of it,’ Steve Mulry, younger brother of the band’s lead singer Ted Mulry, didn’t need to think about it. “I suppose I should have waited two seconds at least to …

They were two of the U.K.’s biggest chart toppers in the Eighties. Howard Jones and Kim Wilde have become synonymous with the music from the era and Australian audiences are in for a real treat when the two artists come together for a double headlining tour in November. We caught up with Howard to talk about the tour, recount some …

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 …

PHOTO: DOT HOPKINS After his much lauded appearance on The Voice in 2012, Jimmy CuppIes had a phone call from the people behind the ‘Whole Lotta Love’ show which is now in its thirteenth year, having made its humble debut at The Basement in Sydney in 2003. In 2009, the show moved to bigger stage of the Enmore Theatre and …

With a career spanning over 40 years, Glenn Shorrock is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business. Born in Kent, England, Glenn migrated with his family at the age of 10 to Adelaide in the mid-1950s. A self-confessed child of rock ‘n’ roll, he began singing in 1962 with a vocal group called the Twilights. At the …