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Red Hot Summer’s 13 January 2024 date for Mornington has sold out already, exactly six months before the event takes place.

International Jazz Festival distinguished award winning Indigenous artist and 2023 Queenslander of the Year William Barton collaborating with South Africa’s Nduduzo Makhathini as part of this year’s line-up.

Paul McCartney watched Guns N’ Roses perform his song ‘Live And Let Die’ at Glastonbury on the weekend and seemed to be enjoying it.

Noel Gallagher thinks Guns N’ Roses headlining Glastonbury is “crazy shit”.

Jimmy Barnes took the summer of 2022 off to recover from back surgery and will make up for lost time across the summer of 2024.

The One Electric Day music festival at Werribee Park for November has sold out in one electric morning.

Modest Mouse have wrapped by the last of their North American dates before heading to New Zealand then Australia for Daydream.

Red Hot Summer has put the “House Full” sign up on the Mount Gambier and Hunter Valley shows taking the tally to 13 sold-out shows on the tour.

Sticky Fingers have been removed from Bluesfest following public outcry in recent weeks and the withdrawal of major acts King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Sampa The Great over the addition of the band.

More acts, including John Butler and Russell Morris, will perform the Melbourne edition of Bluesfest in April.

Sampa The Great is the second artist to withdrawn from Bluesfest, just a day after King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard quit following the addition of Sticky Fingers.

The Play On the Plains music festival for Deniliquin in March has been cancelled.

Bluesfest has added another 18 acts for 2023 with Dog Trumpet, Steve Poltz and Frank Turner now on the list with another 15 acts.

New Zealand’s Whitianga Summer Concert featuring ZZ Top, Pat Benatar, Stone Temple Pilots and The Angels has been cancelled due to the flooding in the North Island.

Australia has a brand-new indie rock tour, Daydream.

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning will spend the first half of 2023 out solo and on tour for Red Hot Summer. The big question for Fanning is what does a cut-down setlist look like?

Red Hot Summer has more sold out dates with Seppelsfield, Victoria show reaching capacity ahead of this weekend and the Batemans Bay show January 28 also declared a full-house.

Paul Kelly has kicked off Red Hot Summer 2023 with a rocking new year of his uptempo best.

Hoodoo Gurus will head to South America for three shows in April 2023.

Another five acts have been added to Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree in Geelong in March.

Imagine this. A kid born the same day Noiseworks ‘Love Verses Money’ album came out is now 31. Last Friday Noiseworks released their fourth album ‘Evolution’ and gave their 31 year old kid a brother.

Nine Australian acts have been revealed to showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas in March 2023.

Australia’s top shelf talent will perform at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo for the Twilight At Taronga 2023 season with the Little Free Oceans campaign getting a financial boost from the events.

Bernard Fanning is in training for the Red Hot Summer 2023 tour, posting that his first round of rehearsals is complete.

As A Day On The Green heads towards its 500th show it has been revealed that the title holder for most A Day On The Green gigs is Jimmy Barnes with 44 shows.

Icehouse will perform for the first time ever in the Simpson Desert for Birdsville’s Big Red Bash as well as Broken Hill’s Mundi Mundi in 2023.

The Palm Tree Music Festival is heading to Australia in March fronted by Tiesto and Kygo.

Henry Wagons introduced a special guest when he performed at the Out On The Weekend festival in Melbourne on the weekend. His daughter Casper joined him for a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Heart of Gold’.