Black Market Tune is a band with an eclectic mix of musical styles, largely folk, from various regions throughout Europe, the U.K. and around the world. The band was founded in late 2012 when violinist Paul decided to organise a ten week tour in Austria. He found a Scottish accordion player who was an old friend and a guitar player …

Kicking off in May 2015, two of the country’s favourite rock bands, led by two of our favourite rock chicks, will be hitting the road together in what promises to be one hell of a rock ‘n’ roll tour! Baby Animals and The Superjesus unite for a run of shows dubbed the ‘She Who Rocks Tour’. So what was the …

When The Superjesus joins forces with Baby Animals for the ‘She Who Rocks’ tour this May, it’s going to be a mighty rock show and one that singer Sarah McLeod has been hoping would happen for a long time. But while this will be the first time that The Superjesus has played with Baby Animals, it is not the first …

Aussie country rock band, The Wolfe Brothers, are gearing up for the 2015 Tamworth Country Music Festival where they will be performing a show with Angry Anderson. “I can’t believe it,” guitarist Brodie Rainbird tells me excitedly during our recent interview. “It’s so cool! That guy’s a genuine bona fide rock star! To have him up on stage and of …

This year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival will be singer/songwriter Matt Henry’s fifth in a row. And, just to make it clear, he has played at each one. “I’m getting quite used to Tamworth in summer,” he tells me in our interview in the lead up to the festival. He explains that he has learned to pack lots of T-shirts “because …

Popular Scottish dance music band, Shooglenifty, will be celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary in 2015, having played their official debut gig at the Orkney Folk Festival in 1990. “Most of us played together in a different outfit beforehand,” explains founding member Malcolm Crosbie in our recent interview, on the eve of their Australian tour. “And when it became defunct, we …

Indie folk/pop duo, Women in Docs, will be heading to Tamworth this month for a bunch of performances at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.  Chanel Lucas took time out to chat to Rock Club 40 recently about the girls’ first visit to Tamworth in five years, including a show at the curiously named Dag Sheep Station, on 18th January. “I haven’t …

One of the best debut albums I have heard in a long time and, in my opinion, one of the finest releases of 2014, is singer/songwriter Ray Sorenson’s first album, ‘Silent Writer’. The album is a collection of original material written over a period of about forty years. However, it was not until recently that Ray felt that the time …

It was 1971 and Irene Thornton was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her and trying to adjust to life in Adelaide again after a year overseas. Ronald Belford ‘Bon’ Scott was singing in a band called Fraternity and completely unaware of the fame that lay in store for him.  Fate brought the pair together and eventually …

“The word’s out that it’s fantastic,” Bob “Bongo” Starkie excitedly announced about his Skyhooks show, in a recent phone interview. He is still enjoying performing the music of the band that brought him fame and fortune and has announced a string of dates in January and February for NSW and Victoria where he and his band will play some classic …