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Like most bands, The Living End have had a quiet 2021. For many acts it is because of the pandemic but in the case of The Living End, lead singer Chris Cheney had been touring his first ever solo shows for Red Hot Summer.

Shannon Noll has never not had a Top 10 album. His latest album ‘Raw’, debuting in Australia at no 3, has given Noll his sixth consecutive Top 10 album.

Nick Barker will head to the Yarra Valley in November for the acoustic music festival Yarra Sounds.

The Apia Good Times show for Melbourne Friday 28 May and Geelong Saturday 29 May will be postponed due to Victoria’s current lockdown. New dates are being worked out and Noise11 will update you on this page with more info is known.

The O2 arena in London will host full-capacity gigs from August.

The NSW Government sponsored Bluesfest cancellation over Easter has been given a reprieve. Bluesfest will resurrect over 1-4 October 2021.

980 artists will perform across 85 venues in Victoria as a result of the Music For Victoria Fund being injected into the Victorian music community.

Art Centre Melbourne’s Live At The Bowl series has injected $27 million into the Victorian economy and put live music in front of 97,843 music fans.

Jimmy Barnes will tour his all new homegrown family album ‘Flesh and Blood’ inbetween Red Hot Summer seasons in July.

Red Hot Summer’s second show in Bribie Island is a sellout a month ahead of the event signaling Australian music fans are getting back into live music.

Duane McDonald’s 2021 Red Hot Summer series is defying the naysayers and, to quote Wayne’s World “if you book them, they will come”.

Taylor Swift is dropping reworked Fearless tracks left, right, and centre as she prepares to re-release the album on Friday.

Taylor Swift has revisited her split from Joe Jonas for the latest From the Vault gem ahead of her Fearless album re-release on Friday.

The Brisbane lockdown in Queensland has had a adverse effect on Bluesfest but Queensland Red Hot Summer shows are in full swing.

Taylor Swift is set to release the first song in her ‘From the Vault’ series on Thursday (25.03.21).

The APIA Good Times tour will return to Australian stages on May 13 after being postponed due to Covid in 2020.

When Ian Moss heads out on his ‘One Guitar One Night Only’ tour in June he will be pooling his setlist from a very rich catalogue of songs he wrote or sang for Cold Chisel and his own solo albums now dating back 32 years.

Sometime in 2021 you will hear Chris Cheney’s first solo album. The Living End’s co-founder and singer has been showcasing his new music at Red Hot Summer.

Live music is back and rocking with the Red Hot Summer tour reactivating for 2021 in Tasmania over the weekend.

Laneway Music has teamed Dollsquad, Radio KSG and Charlie Marshall & The Body Electric.

Splendour in the Grass has been postponed again due to Covid. It will now be on in November.

Taylor Swift has officially cancelled her Lover Fest shows.

The sold-out The Cat Empire and The Teskey Brothers show for February 28 is all systems go for February 28.

The Groovin’ The Moo music festival will not go ahead in Australia in 2021 although GTM boss Steve Halpin expects in back in 2022.

Ross Wilson says he will no longer play Australia Day concerts. Instead, the Australian rock legend will play the special ‘Living In The land Of Oz’ concert to mark Survival Day 2021.

Live music sounds good, doesn’t it … and its back. Jimmy Barnes headlined the first of the 21 Sounds Better Together concerts at the Rochford Winery in Victoria’s Yarra Valley.

Secret Sounds, Five Four Entertainment and Groove today confirm that their forthcoming concert series, Summer Sounds Festival, will proceed with the first shows taking place this weekend.

Red Hot Summer has registered another sell-out show, this time in Hobart.

In March 2020, just prior to Covid placing live music on hold, Moving Pictures played a startling set at the Toronto Hotel in New South Wales. It was one of the last live shows of 2020 before the lockdown. It is now the live album ‘Under The Palms’.