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Portishead
2011 Australian sideshows announced

Nobody sounds like Portishead. After a 14 year absence, legendary Bristol band Portisheada are returning to captivate and transport Australian fans once again. Here for the highly-anticipated Harvest music and art festivals taking place in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in November, these Portishead sideshows take the band's stunning music further afield to Perth, Adelaide and Auckland.

Cinematic indie rock veterans Mercury Rev have continued to surprise and enlighten listeners for over a decade and a half with their maverick musical explorations are special guests for the Perth and Adelaide concerts.

PORTISHEAD AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

Tickets go on sale: Friday 26 August,9:00am

Thurs 10th Nov
PORTISHEAD
Vector Arena, Auckland

Tues 15th Nov
PORTISHEAD
plus special guests MERCURY REV
Belvoir Theatre, Perth

Thurs 17th Nov
PORTISHEAD
plus special guests MERCURY REV
Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide

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KATE CEBERANO

August 12th 2011 07:28

KATE CEBERANO
ANNOUNCES HER "ALIVE" TOUR

The fabulous Kate Ceberano, supporter of Berlei Breast Cancer Foundation recently wrapped up her filming for Getaway with the Nine Network, signed a new recording contract with Sony Music and is now heading out on the road for a quick tour. Ceberano, an artist widely respected not only by the music industry but also for her ability to juggle a variety of other roles takes the Artistic Direction wheel of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2012 proving her ever expanding ability to multi-task and entertain people with heart, heat and soul..

Sony Music Chairman & CEO Australia & New Zealand and President South East Asia & Korea, Denis Handlin AM commented on the signing: "I am thrilled to have Kate as part of the Sony Music family. We look forward to working with her on an exciting new album."

Kate has always excelled as a live performer and is looking forward to getting back on the road performing all of her hits, and a few surprises of course.

"I look forward to seeing you all at the upcoming shows this October"

TOUR DATES

Friday 21st October - Palms Crown Casino Melbourne (tix $55 plus booking fee)

Thursday 27th October - The Basement Sydney (tix $40 plus booking fee)

Saturday 29th October - Jazz in the Vines The Hunter Valley (tix $80 plus booking fee)

Wednesday 2nd November– Her Majesty's Theatre Adelaide (tix $55 plus booking fee) phone 131 246

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EXPRESSIONS OF IDENTITY

August 10th 2011 06:44

SBS Youth Orchestra & Riverside Theatres

EXPRESSIONS OF IDENTITY

SBS Youth Orchestra

Riverside Theatres

Sunday, 25th September 2011 at 3pm

For One Performance Only

The SBS Youth Orchestra is bringing a selection of musical works that touch on moments of Drama and Theatre to Riverside Theatres on Sunday, 25 September at 3pm in the exciting concert, Expressions of Identity conducted by Geoffrey Gartner.

The SBS Youth Orchestra collaborates with Orange Conservatorium of Music to present a program which accents the importance of personal and cultural identity.

“It is always wonderful to have the incredibly talented young musicians from the SBS Youth Orchestra come to Riverside Theatres. The traditions from which the pieces are taken are musically rich and interesting,” said Director of Riverside Theatres, Robert Love.

Jean Sibelius is seen as a composer whose works played a pivotal part in the expression of Finnish cultural and national identity. Ernest Bloch, was born in Switzerland and said to have been influenced by German, French and Jewish musical traditions. His concertino for Flute and Viola is a delightful piece which features Sally Walker on flute and Andrew Baker on viola. Brahms wrote his famous Academic Festival Overture as a thank you to the University of Breslau. Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances were inspired by Brahms and overtly nationalistic. The Concert features invited soloists Andrew Baker on viola and Sally Walker on flute. Along with Conductor Geoffrey Gartner, all three are former members of the SBS Youth Orchestra and have embarked on professional careers.

SBS Youth Orchestra

Riverside Theatres, Cnr Church and Market Sts, Parramatta

DATE: Sunday, 25 September TIME: 3pm

TICKETS: Adult $30, Conc $26, 30 & Under $22, Students $22, Groups of 6 or more $26*

BOOKINGS: Riverside Box Office 02 8839 3399

*transaction fees apply

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GHOUL free concert

August 10th 2011 03:14

THE WHARF SESSIONS

GHOUL

FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2011

AT 10PM (APPROX START)

FREE POST-SHOW LIVE MUSIC AT THE WHARF

On Friday 19 August, The Wharf Sessions features Sydney's electronic four-piece Ghoul

Bursting onto the scene in 2008, Ghoul made an immediate impact with their EP, A Mouthful Of Gold and more recently have ridden a wave of critical acclaim after the February release of their mini-LP Dunks. Descriptions of the band’s eclectic sound range from ‘abstract & fiercely melodic’ to ‘hauntingly beautiful’.

The combination of Ivan’s stunning, soulful vocals with the band's playful mix of electronica and guitar-driven pop is mesmerising - The Brag

The Wharf Sessions are Sydney Theatre Company's regular series of free post-show gigs at The Wharf. Previous artists include Bertie Blackman, The Paper Scissors, Cloud Control, Red Riders and Bridezilla. While The Wharf Sessions is perfect for your post-theatre entertainment, you don’t actually have to attend a show to come along, just turn up at 10pm!

Entry to the gigs are available to all and no booking is necessary. Drinks and snacks are available at the bar

Venue: The Wharf, Sydney Theatre Company

Date: Friday 19 August 2011

Time: Starts approx 10pm

Tickets: No bookings necessary

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ROCK OF AGES

August 7th 2011 01:32

ROCK OF AGES
- to open at Sydney's Theatre Royal

Saturday 14 January 2012

For updates and presale opportunities

Exuberant,hilarious, fantastically slick fun!
– The Age

ROCK OF AGES, opened in Melbourne to standing ovations and five star reviews, and now this five-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical will come to Sydney and open at the Theatre Royal on 14 January 2012 for a strictly limited season.

ROCK OF AGES is a hilarious, feel-good love story told through the hit songs: ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’,‘Don’t Stop Believin’’, ‘High Enough’,‘The Final Countdown’, ‘We Built This City’ and‘More Than Words’ by iconic rockers Foreigner, Journey, Styx, REOSpeedwagon, Poison, Starship, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake, and many more.

Set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip, Drew is a big-city dreamer who desperately wants to be a rocker,and works in L.A.’smost legendary club. He meets Sherrie, and they fall in love to thegreatest songs of the ‘80s. It’s an awesomely good time wherebig hair meets big dreams in a rock comedy romance.

"After a great season in Melbourne to enthusiastic audiences standing, singing and dancing along every night, ROCK OF AGES is thrilled to make its way to Sydney. ROCK OF AGES is a cross between concert, the best of musical theatre and comedy- come and party - what a way to start the year off!" said Producer Rodney Rigby.

The cast of ROCK OF AGES is led by Amy Lehpamer and Justin Burford, who have taken Melbourne by storm and rocked their ways intothe hearts of everyone who attends the show.

With a couple of ARIAs under his belt, an APRA nomination for ‘Song of the Year’, record sales reaching Platinum status and sold out tours in Australia and internationally with his band End Of Fashion, the Herald Sun calls Justin Burford “hugely appealing” and The Age writes “what a superb voice—like honey with gravel in it.”

The cast delivers a brilliant fusion of comic inanity and high-octane rock songs.
– The Age

Amy Lehpamer, who has been critically acclaimed as“impressive,” “superb,” and “terrific,”plays Sherrie. Amy’s theatre credits include Malthouse/VictorianOpera’s acclaimed The Threepenny Opera, and Eddie Perfect’s Shane Warne The Musical. Amy is featured in the HBO/Dreamworksseries The Pacific.

The ROCK OF AGES cast includes - Francine Cain, Emma Clark, Brendan Coustley, Rachel Dunham, Alexander Ellis, Samantha Hagen, Lincoln Hall, Anthony Harkin, Melanie Hawkins, Brent Hill, Shaye Hopkins, John O’Hara, Jensen Overend, Thern Reynolds, Ellen Sutton, David Whitney and marks the return to the Australian stage for Michael Falzon, whom the Herald Sun says "lends sexual charisma to monstrously vain Stacee Jaxx."

Infectious,intoxicating and exhilarating!
– The Australian

ROCK OF AGES was nominated for five Tony Awards,including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical,Best Costume Design of a Musical, and Best Sound Design for a Musical. New Line Records released the Original Broadway Cast Recording in June 2009; it features 28 songs from the show.

ROCK OF AGES is now playing on Broadway across America on a U.S. National Tour, played Toronto in 2010 and will open in London in September 2011.

ROCK OF AGES is now being made into a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Russell Brand.

ROCK OF AGES is currently playing in Melbourne. It will open a limited season in Brisbane on 13 November before coming to Sydney.

Nothin’but a good time!
- Herald Sun

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BOY & BEAR

July 31st 2011 00:00

BOY & BEAR

iTunes Live from Sydney - Wednesday 3rd August

On the eve of the release of their first full-length effort, the freshly minted Moonfire, Boy & Bear will hold a free performance as part of the iTunes Live from Sydney series.

On Wednesday 3rd August, Sydney fans will have an opportunity to attend a live, acoustic and intimate performance by Boy & Bear as part of the iTunes Live from Sydney series. Fans are advised to head to the Boy & Bear's Facebook page for further information on how to attain tickets to this exclusive event.

Limited tickets will also be available at the door on the night a first come first served basis. Doors open at 8.30pm.

The performance will commence at 9.00pm and a recording of the performance will be made available exclusively on iTunes later this year. The session will include songs from Moonfire, including first single and triple j favourite 'Feeding Line' and the brand new single 'Milk & Sticks'.

Already armed with a swag of accolades including the 2010 triple j Unearthed award, Rolling Stone's 2011 'Artist to Watch' award and a top 5 inclusion in the triple j Hottest 100, the band locked themselves away in Nashville with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, White Stripes, The Shins), to record Moonfire. The album is a beautiful evolution from their highly acclaimed debut EP, With Emperor Antarctica.

Boy & Bear will return to the stage at the end of this month, performing once again at Splendour in the Grass. The band will depart Australia on the release of their album for a coveted performance at Chicago's Lollapalooza.

BOY & BEAR

New single - MILK & STICKS- available now

New album - MOONFIRE - available Friday 5th August

iTunes Live from Sydney - Wednesday 3rd August @ 9.00pm

Apple Store Sydney - 367 George Street, Sydney

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3Penny Opera

July 30th 2011 23:15

Sydney Theatre Company and Asteron present
the Malthouse Melbourne and Victorian Opera production of
Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill's

The Threepenny Opera
Text by Raimondo Cortese.
Lyrics by Jeremy Sams.

1 to 24 September 2011. Opening Night: 3 September 2011 at 8.00pm.
Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

Featuring an exceptional cast including Paul Capsis (as Jenny), Jolyon James (as Tiger Brown), Luke Joslin (as Filch), Lucy Maunder (as Polly), Amanda Muggleton (as Mrs Peachum), Eddie Perfect (as Macheath) and Grant Smith (as Mr Peachum) the Brecht-Weill musical masterpiece, The Threepenny Opera, is at Sydney Theatre from 1 to 24 September 2011, opening Saturday 3 September.

The most notorious anti-hero to storm a stage, Macheath - or Mack The Knife as he's known on the streets - is the original city criminal who's never met a law, a woman or a cop he couldn't break. That is until he challenges the supremacy of the Beggar King Peachum and his empire of manufactured woes. With Peachum and cunning cop Tiger Brown on his case the last thing Mack needs is a couple of molls competing for ownership of him. But when it comes to the ladies, this Lothario throws caution to the wind and leaps in head first.

Taking John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) as the basis for a critique of the greed, lust, evil and corruption they considered to be at heart of bourgeois society, Brecht and Weill incorporated the danger and hedonism of 1920's Berlin music and cabaret to create a 20th Century milestone of musical theatre. At the heart of the Malthouse Melbourne and Victorian Opera co-production, directed by Michael Kantor and conducted by Richard Gill, is the raw, jazzy and intensely beautiful music.

Raimondo Cortese's vivid adaptation, featuring lyrics by Jeremy Sams, captures that spirit of the Weimar republic at its height, while superimposing the action onto recognisably Australian streets.

Sydney Theatre Company presents The Threepenny Opera as part of Berlin Sydney: a program of theatre, music, cabaret and exhibitions inspired by 20s and 30s Berlin held at leading arts venues across Sydney.

Director: Michael Kantor. Conductor: Richard Gill. Set Designer: Peter Corrigan. Costume Designer: Anna Cordingley. Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson. Choreographer: Kate Denborough.

Cast: Johanna Allen, Paul Capsis, Jolyon James, Luke Joslin, Lucy Maunder, Amanda Muggleton, Eddie Perfect, Angela Scundi, Dimity Shepherd, Grant Smith, John Xintavelonis, Michael Whalley. Music performed live by Ensemble Weill.

Box Office: 02 9250 1777.
Tickets: $40 - $130 (transaction fees may apply)

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Sydney Fringe 2011

July 29th 2011 02:10

Following last year's successful debut, Sydney's independent performing and visual arts festival returns with attitude. 24 days, 65 venues, 250 events and over 1,000 performances!

Shows and artists from Sydney, NSW, Australia and the world.

While we still call Newtown home, we are busting out across Sydney offering evermore of the city a chance to get Fringed with new precincts in Leichhardt, Parramatta, Chatswood, Darlinghurst's Oxford Street and the city.

This year, our new Fringe Club, Five Eliza, will re-imagine one of Sydney's hidden gems in the heart of Newtown and create a speakeasy lounge that will be the place for kicking back with the Fringe crowd.

On our opening night (Sept 9th) we turn up the volume in ever-buzzing King Street with a live music stage at The Hub for Newtown Live! Take a free peek at the work of some of our festival visual artists plus buskers, street poetry, Samba Ninja, Pop-Up Festival and Five Eliza opens for business.

KidsFringe will create a family-friendly space and a bagful of shows at the Addison Road Centre and prove you are never too young for a festival.

FringeMates is our new free membership card that gives your Fringe experience a little boost with special offers and discounts at participating bars, restaurants and businesses. Sign up online at

This is your festival. Your city unleashed!

The 2011 Sydney Fringe Festival launches official on Thursday 4 August - the full program will be available on-line at www.thesydneyfringe.com.au

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THE WHARF SESSIONS

July 10th 2011 05:00

THE WHARF SESSIONS

PARADES

FRIDAY 22 JULY 2011
AT 10PM (APPROX START)

FREE POST-SHOW LIVE MUSIC AT THE WHARF

On Friday 22 July, Sydney band Parades will bring to The Wharf Sessions their unique form of atmospheric, melodic art-rock (that you can actually dance to!).

Parades received rapturous reviews this time last year after the release of their debut album Foreign Tapes. It got four and five star reviews all over the country and now they’re back with a glorious new single Water Stories.

"These guys are fantastic. Simple as that." - RICHARD KINGSMILL, TRIPLE J

The Wharf Sessions are Sydney Theatre Company’s regular series of free post-show gigs at The Wharf. Previous artists include Bertie Blackman, The Paper Scissors, Cloud Control, Red Riders and Bridezilla.

While The Wharf Sessions is perfect for your post-theatre entertainment, you don’t actually have to attend a show to come along, just turn up at 10pm!

Entry to the gig is free and available to all. No booking necessary. Drinks and snacks will be available at the bar

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DAMNDOGS Run Wild

July 10th 2011 04:18

DAMNDOGS
First Australian shows just days away!

Sydney and Melbourne, get ready to go to the Dogs.

It's not long now until DAMNDOGS are unleashed for the first time on Australian audiences. The primed new project from Chris Cester and Mark Wilson, teaming up with longtime friends Mitch McIvor and Louis Macklin will play two very special shows in Melbourne and Sydney in July.

Full of the energy that a fresh start brings, DAMNDOGS are a swaggering bundleof sleazy rhythms 'n' punkish doom disco. Their debut single 'Very First Century' was recorded with producer Scott Horscroft (The Presets, Little Red) at BJB Studios in Sydney, and can be heard at the band's just-launched website www.damndogsmusic.com right now.

Fans can grab it for free from Filter magazine, as well as another song 'Love' for free from Nylon magazine.

DAMNDOGS' debut Australian performances are now just days away! Seebelow for details and as a primer, clock the band's recent rehearsal footage here.

'DAMNDOGS are a dance band. Think Gorillaz procreating with PiL and you havesome idea what they sound like.' - Minimism (LA)

DAMNDOGS

are

Chris Cester (Vocals)
Mark Wilson (Bass)
Mitch McIvor (Guitar and Vocals)
Louis Macklin (Drums)

damndogsmusic.com | facebook.com/damndogstheband | twitter.com/damndogs

DEBUT AUSTRALIAN SHOWS
Presented by IMC Music and Low Records

Thursday 14th July MELBOURNE - Toff In Town
with Strange Talk and Myth & Tropics Tickets via Moshtix

Thursday 21st July SYDNEY - Oxford Art Factory
with Wolf & Cub and Millions Tickets via Moshtix

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