Beatlemania is about to hit our shores all over again, 50 years after the most famous band in musical history landed on Australian soil.Obviously not the Fab Four themselves but a very good facsimile thereof, so to speak. There are many Beatles tribute bands doing the rounds but none quite as successful as The Bootleg Beatles. On the eve …

  We’re looking forward to coming to Australia. It is one country that has been with us for a long time and now finally we can fit it into the schedule so it’s all coming together. Gary admits to being a long time Queen fan and also a fan of the television show, ‘Stars in My Eyes’. One day, he made …

  It is almost a year since my first interview with Grace Knight and a busy year it has been for the Eurogliders’ vocalist. Together with Bernie Lynch, she has been performing shows around the country in ‘two configurations’. “One,” she explains, “is with the full Eurogliders band, and the other is just Bernie and myself and two other musicians …

  The statistics are phenomenal of Euro-Disco group BONEY M  – they have sold over 159 million CD’s worldwide garnering 18 Platinum and 15 Gold Albums and over 200 Gold and Platinum Singles and they are making their way to Australia in June 2014, proudly presented by Abstract Entertainment and Metropolis Touring. Maizie says that she is looking forward to the …

With their huge wall of sound, you would think that King of the North (otherwise known as KOTN) is a five piece rock outfit, with several guitarists, a bass player and a drummer but the truth is that all that rock emenates from just two musicians: one guitarist, Andrew Higgs and one drummer, Danny Leo. I caught up with Andrew …

The seventies was the era of Glam Rock… satin and sequins and platform boots that, seriously, must have been hell to wear let alone wear while you strut around a stage, with a guitar slung around your shoulder. In those days, we loved the likes of Slade, T-Rex and the band that arguably put the ‘glam’ into ‘Glam Rock’, The …

McAlister Kemp are a talented duo who have been creating quite a buzz in country music circles.  With 3 albums to their name, a Golden Guitar award and over 18,000 likes on facebook, these guys are on the cusp of international stardom and we here at Rock Club 40 were curious to see what the fuss was about. Their latest …

The The Jammin’ Divas are four very talented women hailing from various corners of the Globe, who have come together to create a unique blend of music and they are currently kicking off their international tour in Australia, homeland of singer Kath Buckell. I had the pleasure of speaking with Kath recently to find out a bit more about the …

  Dragon recently celebrated forty years of music… and that is not just any music but, as they cliché says, ‘music that became the soundtrack of our lives.’ Well, honestly, there is no other way to say it so succinctly. Their songs really did become the soundtrack of our lives. Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing the first time they …

Steve Balbi is a man of many talents and, as he readily admits, ‘many threads’. His musical projects are diverse, ranging from playing bass with rock powerhouse Noiseworks, to his theatrical ‘sophisticated punk’ role in the band Mi-Sex, to Ziggy in the production based on the music of David Bowie and, the very personal journey he has taken with his …