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 …

  Singer Bloom has been singing pretty much all her life. She made her first public performance at the tender age of four years. “It happened very early on,” she tells me “And then I didn’t start singing professionally until I was about fifteen and that was when I started doing the pub circuit and weddings and things like that. …

  One of Melbourne’s best loved music venues, the Flying Saucer Club celebrates its fourth birthday this Friday, 5th August and that first show featured The Revalators, a combo made up of three of the country’s finest musicians, Joe Camilleri, Joe Creighton and James Black. “It was actually a big coup getting them,” recalls Mark Burchett, Venue and Artist Promoter for …

  When David Bowie passed away earlier this year, the world was in mourning… and in shock. Millions of fans around the globe were paying homage to a man coveted as a musical genius of our generation.  It seemed the world was intent on honouring Bowie for his enormous musical contribution over the past 40 odd years. Kendall-Jane Rundle, Director …

  Naomi Price is an Australian performer who rose to fame on the 2015 season of The Voice. Adele Adkins is an English singer and songwriter who rose to fame with her first album 19. The pair have not met, something that Naomi thinks would be very weird and if Adele should ever ring Naomi she thinks she would pass …

  Jack Howard has a long history as a horn player and arranger perhaps most notably through his work with Hunters and Collectors but, along the way, he has also played with a lot of other great bands including Midnight Oil and Models. I caught up with Jack to talk about Epic Brass, his upcoming show at the Memo Music …

Berlin vocalist Terri Nunn is really looking forward to the Totally 80s Australian Tour which kicks off in Brisbane this month. “I remember when we started out, it was Australia first and then Japan that were the first countries outside of our own country to give us a chance. The first to open their doors up so it was wonderful …

Australia is getting ready to go Totally 80s this month with some of the era’s favourite artists ready to kick off their Australian tour. We recently talked to 80s singer, Martika, who is part of the big line-up of performers and she is very excited about the opportunity to return to our shores after twenty five years. “I was there …