Following two sold-out world wide live streaming performances, Australian musical icon Ed Kuepper returns to the stage in person, with two intimate solo performances: July 24th & 25th at The Outpost, Brisbane’s hottest new sit down venue.
Kuepper, the craftsmen of some 150 songs across 15+ solo albums plus an earlier career as chief songwriter for acts the Laughing Clowns and The Saints will be taking requests, playing personal favourites and maybe even some new tunes too.
Don’t miss Ed Kuepper solo, live and electric in these increasingly rare live performances: July 24 & 25th Brisbane, The Outpost.
Tickets on-sale now!
In 2020 Sunnyboys will celebrate 40 years since their inception (though a mere 12 years of actual existence) via a new release SUNNYBOYS 40 that brings together the first ever re-release of the band’s much loved 1980 eponymous debut 7” (featuring the original version of the all-time classic Alone With You) alongside four new recordings culled from the archives of chief songwriter Jeremy Oxley. The full length 8-track album will be released on November 29th via all formats including a limited edition vinyl release complete with hard cover 12 page 30cm x 30cm photo essay of the band as well as CD, cassette and all digital platforms.
“You can’t keep a good band down. These new and revitalised songs take it back to the reason behind the band in the first instance. The 40 years in between is nicely depicted in the change in voice while the energy and craftsmanship is still there in the sound, albeit a little fuller and rounder. I guess, it’s just like us too really… “ – Jeremy Oxley
Sunnyboys 40 is available for pre-order from Oct 24th via artistfirst.com.au
Retail release November 29th.
And what better way to celebrate both the new release and the milestone anniversary than by doing what Sunnyboys do best – play live! And so Sunnyboys hit the east coast this February including first time ever shows in Torquay and for Sydney’s Twilights @ Taronga. Special guests Painters & Dockers will join Sunnyboys for the shows in Victoria and Brisbane while garage rockers Rocket Science will join the birthday boys in Sydney and both the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
Pre-sale tickets for all shows on sale now!
“Intense, spellbinding singer at his deadpan best …Callahan is some kind of genius. Introduce yourself.” – The Guardian
Bill Callahan returns to Australia next March this time carrying a full band and Cretan-Australian duo Xylouris White with him.
The 2020 tour follows successive sold out visits for the Sydney Vivid Festival in 2017 and 2015 plus extra-curricular shows in Melbourne including a sold-out six night at Howler. This time Callahan brings new material following the release earlier this year of Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest – a double album – and his first since the much celebrated Dream River in 2013.
“A long time coming, but well worth the wait, ‘Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest’ is a rich and complex album, layered with beautiful explorations of birth, life and death” – NME
“Shepherd feels like his most something album ever—his warmest, his most generous, possibly his most profound. It is his longest, for sure, lounging comfortably across four sides of vinyl, none of it wasted. It is a high note, fond and deep and sustained.” – Pitchfork
As with the last two visits the lanky Texan will be accompanied by regular touring guitarist Matt Kinsey, his shapes and sounds the perfect compliment to Callahan’s lyrical landscapes while first timers; stand up bassist Brian Beattie and drummer Adam Jones, add the movement and colour.
Adding further depth, Xylouris White; the unlikely combination of Dirty Three drummer and sometime Callahan associate Jim White and Cretan lute playing legend George Xylouris, will join Bill for all east coast headline shows. XW themselves will release a new album The Sisypheans this November.
Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is available now via Spunk Records
The Sisypheans is released November 8th via ABC Music
On August 3rd 2019 The Celibate Rifles lost their beloved frontman and friend Damien Lovelock.
To commemorate his passing and to celebrate his (musical) life The Rifles – alongside Damo’s cover band project The Centrerlink Surfers – will pay tribute to Damien by covering his musical career from But Jacques The Fish to Wigworld via a selection of Damo’s jukebox faves and more.
Mega-Rifles fan and Dead Kennedy’s frontman Jello Biafra will also join the tribute with a one-off Sydney live performance lending his vocal to a series of Rifles tunes with added MC and DJ duties.
ABC journalist heads Steve Cannane will also head a list of those providing testimonials while celebrated surf-film maker Jack McCoy will provide the visuals.
It’s a one-off, never-to-be-repeated event – just like the man himself!
Come and celebrate the life of a unique individual: Damien Lovelock. Sunday 22nd September, The Factory Theatre Marrickville 4.00pm – 8.00pm.
