Regional Touring

Cold Chisel Mark Their Big Five-O With Biggest Shows Ever

Cold Chisel will regroup in October to mark the 50th anniversary of when they first got together with the biggest shows they have even done, and all thanks to Face To Face Touring.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Don Walker, Duane mcDonald, Face To Face, Jimmy Barnes, Regional Touring, rock

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Lookout Festival Plays To Capacity Crowds In Queensland With Incubus and Live

by Paul Cashmere

With all the doom and gloom in the live music industry right now, the all-new Lookout Festival is off to a fine start with 12,000+ concert goers heading to Sandstone Point and Gold Coast, Queensland on Saturday and Sunday for the Lookout Festival.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, Incubus, live, live music, Lookout Festival, music industry, Regional Touring

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Live Nation Come Face To Face For A New Frontier Of Touring In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Live music in Australia has taken an exciting new direction with Live Nation announcing an acquisition of the newly merged Face To Face Touring.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, Face To Face Touring, John Zaccaria, live music, Live Nation, One Electric Day, Red Hot Summer, Regional Touring

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Jim Kerr of Simple Minds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Simple Minds Add Theatre Date Sideshows To Red Hot Summer Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Simple Minds will perform addition sideshow dates when they return to Australia for Red Hot Summer on 2024.

Tagged as: Australia, Face To Face, live music, Regional Touring, Scotland, Simple Minds, Zaccaria

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+Live+ and Incubus To Headline Inaugural Lookout Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Australia will have a brand-new music festival in 2024. Lookout Festival will feature +Live+ and Incubus with Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and The Superjesus.

Tagged as: +Live+, Australia, Duane mcDonald, Face To Face, Incubus, live, music festival, Regional Touring, rock, Zaccaria

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Icehouse and Simple Minds To Reunite For Red Hot Summer 2024 Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer will recreate the historic 1981 touring line-up with Icehouse and Simple Minds together again on the same bill.

Tagged as: Australia, Bachelor Girl, Daryl Braithwaite, Duane mcDonald, Icehouse, music festival, Noiseworks, Red Hot Summer, Regional Touring, rock live music, Simple Minds

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Mannum Sounds By the River Paul Kelly Event Relocated

by Paul Cashmere

Regional Touring’s Duane McDonald is putting fans first by making the decision to move January’s Sounds By The River event with Paul Kelly two months before the date.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, Mannum, Paul Kelly, Regional Touring, Sounds By The River

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Crowded House, Angus and Julia Stone, Boy & Bear To Play Gateway Lakes, Wodonga

by Paul Cashmere

Crowded House, Angus and Julia Stone and Boy & Bear will perform at Gateway Lakes on the Victoria/New South Wales border in November.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Angus and Julia Stone, Australia, Boy & Bear, Crowded House, Regional Touring, rock

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Jimmy Barnes performs at the Palais in St Kilda Melbourne on Saturday 18 July 2015 as part of the Flesh and Wood Tour 2015.

Inaugural Legends On The Lawn Has A New Date 27 August

by Paul Cashmere

Mackay’s first Legends on the Lawn has been moved to August following Jimmy Barnes being diagnosed with Covid.

Tagged as: Busby Marou, Christine Anu, Jimmy Barnes, Jon Stevens, Legends on the Lawn, music festival, Regional Touring, The Living End, Vanessa Amorosi, Vika & Linda

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Check Out The Crowd At Sounds By The River

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s Mannum South Australia event Sounds By The River drew an incredible crowd over the weekend with perfect weather and another beautifully orchestrated production from Regional Touring.

Tagged as: Baby Animals, Boom Crash Opera, Duane mcDonald, Hunters & Collectors, James Reyne, Jon Stevens, Killing Heidi, live music, Mannum, music industry, Regional Touring, Sounds By The River, The Angels, The Living End

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One Electric Day Rescheduled To January

by Noise11.com

Melbourne’s One Electric Day, planned for November 21, has been rescheduled into 2022 due to the ongoing Delta outbreaks and restrictions in Victoria. The sold-out event will go ahead on Sunday January 30. The line-up for the concert remains the same, featuring Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, Jon Stevens, The Black Sorrows, Killing Heidi and Chocolate Starfish.

Tagged as: Australia, Jimmy Barnes, Jon Stevens, Killing Heidi, music industry, One Electric Day, Regional Touring, The Black Sorrows, The Living End

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Duane McDonald Is Touring John Williamson Around Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Promoter Duane McDonald’s faith in Australian artists is paying off for Australian music fans with yet another all-Australian tour announced with John Williamson.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, country, Duane mcDonald, John Williamson, music industry, Regional Touring

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The Cat Empire and Teskey Brothers Summer Salt Ballarat Show Is A Goer

by Paul Cashmere

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

Tagged as: Australia, Ballarat, Boy & Bear, Emily Wurramara, John Butler, live music, Montaigne, music industry, Regional Touring, Summersalt, Teskey Brothers, The Cat Empire

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Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger photo by Ros O'Gorman

Bernard Fanning, Matt Corby To Play Sandstone Point Queensland

by Paul Cashmere

Queensland is getting back into live music with Regional Touring taking Bernard Fanning, Matt Corby, Boy & Bear, Thelma Plum and Tia Gostelow into Sandstone Point Hotel on 21 November.

Tagged as: Australia, Bernard Fanning, live music, Matt Corby, Queensland, Regional Touring, Sandstone Hotel, Thelma Plum, Tia Gostelow

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Regional Touring Activates New Event ‘To The Point’ For Queensland For November

by Paul Cashmere

Regional Touring will present Amy Shark, The Cat Empire, John Butler, The Beautiful Girls and Stella Donnelly for To The Point on 7 November.

Tagged as: Amy Shark, Australia, Duane mcDonald, John Butler, music event, Red Hot Summer, Regional Touring, Stella Donnelly, The Beautiful Girls, The Cat Empire, To The Point

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Google Suspends Ticketing Vulture Viagogo

by Paul Cashmere

Google has finally put a stop to ticket scalpers Viagogo after thousands of complaints, government pressure and mounting legal action.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, John Farnham, music industry, One Electric Day, Regional Touring, Viagogo

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Tex Perkins will once again transform into The Man In Black

by Paul Cashmere

Tex Perkins will once again don the Johnny Cash uniform to become The Man In Black for shows nationally.

Tagged as: Australia, country, Johnny Cash, Regional Touring, Tex Perkins

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Regional Touring Boss Duane McDonald Calls For Changes To Law After Farnham Tickets Fall To Scalpers

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald, founder of touring company Regional Touring, is demanding changes to the law after pre-sale tickets for John Farnham’s Wollongong concert were snapped up this morning and immediately on sold by scalpers.

Tagged as: Australia, Duane mcDonald, John Farnham, music industry, Regional Touring

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Regional Touring’s Duane McDonald Scores Another Win With Lakeside Twilights

by Paul Cashmere

The Lakeside Twilights music festival at Ballarat’s Lake Wendouree foreshore has sold-out more than a month in advance.

Tagged as: 2016, Australia, Black Sorrows, classic rock, Duane mcDonald, Jon Stevens, Lakeside Twilights, Mental As Anything, music festival, Regional Touring, Regional Touring’s Duane McDonald Scores Another Win With Lakeside Twilights, rock, The Angels

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Ol’ 55 And Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons Reunite For Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Ol’ 55 and Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons will reunite for three shows in Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast.

Tagged as: Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, music news, Ol 55, Ol’ 55 And Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons Reunite For Tour, Regional Touring

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Tex Perkins Adds Second Far From Folsom Show In Sydney

by Paul Cashmere

Sydney has been granted one more Tex Perkins ‘Far From Folsom’ show at Cockatoo Island’s decommissioned gaol.

Tagged as: Far From Folsom, music news, Regional Touring, Tex Perkins, Tex Perkins Adds Second Far From Folsom Show In Sydney

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Tex Perkins To Perform Johnny Cash Show In Decommissioned Prisons

by Paul Cashmere

Tex Perkins will present his Johnny Cash tribute show, based on Cash’s recorded performances from the Folsom and San Quentin prisons in the 60s in the US, in decommissioned prisons throughout Australia.

Tagged as: Duane mcDonald, Far From Folsom, music news, Regional Touring, Tex Perkins, Tex Perkins To Perform Johnny Cash Show In World Heritage Prison Sites

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Chopper To Visit Regional Victoria To Declare The Republic Of Anzakistan

by Paul Cashmere

Heath Franklin’s alter-ego Chopper will visit regional Victoria to spread the word of uniting Australia and New Zealand into the nation Anzakistan.

Tagged as: Anzakistan, Chopper, Duane mcDonald, Heath Franklin, Regional Touring

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Jimmy Barnes performs at the Red Hot Summer Tour Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 23 January 2016.

One Electric Day Puts Jimmy Barnes and Icehouse On The Same Bill For The First Time

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes and Icehouse will appear together on the same bill for the very first time for One Electric Day in November.

Tagged as: Duane mcDonald, Icehouse, James Reyne, Jimmy Barnes, One Electric Day, One Electric Day Puts Jimmy Barnes and Icehouse On The Same Bill For The First Time, Regional Touring, Russell Morris, The Badloves

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Sounds By The River Wins South Australia Tourism Award

by Paul Cashmere

Duane McDonald’s Sounds By The River, a part of Regional Touring’s upcoming Red Hot Summer roster of music events, has won a South Australian Tourism Award for Best Festivals and Events.

Tagged as: Duane mcDonald, music news, Red Hot Summer, Regional Touring, Sounds By The River, Sounds By The River Wins South Australia Tourism Award

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Jon Stevens of Noiseworks photo by Winston Robinson

One Electric Day 2024 Showcased A Great Day of Australian Rock

The much loved celebration of Australian music One Electric Day has showcased once again at its stately home at Werribee Park Mansion outside of Melbourne.

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Cold Chisel Mark Their Big Five-O With Biggest Shows Ever

Cold Chisel will regroup in October to mark the 50th anniversary of when they first got together with the biggest shows they have even done, and all thanks to Face To Face Touring.

May 29, 2024

Lookout Festival Plays To Capacity Crowds In Queensland With Incubus and Live

April 8, 2024

Red Hot Summer Wins Ticketmaster Australia Festival of the Year Award

Red Hot Summer, the music festival founded by Duane McDonald in 2011, has won the Festival of the Year Award at Ticketmaster Australia’s annual award event.

March 8, 2024

Live Nation Come Face To Face For A New Frontier Of Touring In Australia

Live music in Australia has taken an exciting new direction with Live Nation announcing an acquisition of the newly merged Face To Face Touring.

December 12, 2023

Icehouse at One Electric Day 19 November 2023 photo by Winston Robinson, Noise11

Jon Stevens and Icehouse Back To Back Deliver 24 Songs Everyone Knows At One Electric Day

One of the great things about Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day is the concentration of Classic Australian rock.

November 20, 2023

+Live+ and Incubus To Headline Inaugural Lookout Festival

Australia will have a brand-new music festival in 2024. Lookout Festival will feature +Live+ and Incubus with Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and The Superjesus.

September 18, 2023