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The night sky above Canberra in Australia will be lit up this week with 100,000 lights during the annual Floriade NightFest. During the spectacular week-long event Canberra’s Commonwealth Park will play host to a stunning night-time display of colour aimed at showing off the park’s famous flower beds with a range of innovative artistic illuminations. Over 100,000 light bulbs, including 1,500 handmade lanterns have been installed across the park to transform the garden beds into…
Fleetwood Mac are to tour Australia during October and November. The enduring rock ‘n roll survivors will bring their ‘On With The Show’ World Tour to major cities across the country, their first series of concert dates in Australia and New Zealand since 2009’s sold-out Unleashed Tour. The band has put drug addiction, musical bust-ups and relationship breakdowns behind them and will be performing as a five-piece for the first time since 1998. All five…
Kylie Minogue is planning a chart comeback in Australia by teaming up with her sister Danni to record a Christmas single. The pair who were both born in Australia will record a version of the Wham! Hit, Last Christmas, which was first released by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1984. Kylie, 47, and Danni, 43, have previously recorded together once when they teamed up in 2008 to cover the ABBA hit The Winner Takes…
Canberra has seen a record number of people attending the theatre in the past year. Almost 230,000 people attended shows at the Canberra Theatre Centre (pictured) over the past 12 months, an increase of 33,000 compared to the previous year. Joy Burch, Minister for the Arts, said 229,993 visitors saw a live performance in 2014-15, generating $4.2 million for the city economy. High-profile performances including Sweet Charity and Le Noir helped boost ticket sales. The…
Rock legends Black Sabbath are to perform concerts in Australia in 2016 as part of their ‘final’ farewell world tour. The group, one of the originators of ‘Heavy Metal’ rock music have earned a worldwide following of millions of fans since releasing their debut album in 1971. The band fell apart in the 1980s when singer Ozzy Osbourne was fired but have re-united on many occasions since, with a variety of replacement frontmen. Ozzy, speaking…
Justin Bieber is to visit Australia this month to promote his new chart-topping single. The teen heartthrob singer, who’s at Number One in Australia with his new single What Do You Mean?, will arrive down under from September 27 – 30 to undertake a series of promotional events. His promotional tour follows a comeback performance at the recent MTV VMAs. Performing at the ceremony for the first time in five years, the singer was moved…
1980s rock group Icehouse are to play concerts in Hobart, Australia as part of a major comeback tour. The group, one of Australia’s biggest bands of the 1980s, shot to fame with a string of top-selling singles and albums and put Australian rock music on the world map years before better-known bands like INXS and Midnight Oil. Icehouse, fronted by Iva Davies (pictured), began as a pub-rock band in Sydney and was originally called Flowers….
Hollywood actress Jessica De Gouw has returned to her roots in Perth to make a new sci-fi movie. De Gouw, who stars in hit TV series Underground and also features in NBC TV’s Dracula alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers, was raised in Perth but moved to Los Angeles some years ago to pursue her movie career. Jessica, 27, is now back in Western Australia to start work on a new sci-fi thriller called OtherLife, alongside Australian…
The latest survey of listening habits in Melbourne, Australia, reveals the city’s most popular radio stations and DJ’s. Hamish Blake and Andy Lee (pictured) have come out top in the survey that shows their daily drive-time show on 101.9 Fox FM is the city’s most popular radio programme. For the first time, the Fox show has taken first place from radio rivals Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek at KIIS In the overall station contests, AM…
Hollywood star Hugh Jackman is to swap the big screen for the stage in Australia and an all-singing, all-dancing musical show. The Australian actor is to tour five Australian cities with an arena show called Broadway to Oz that will feature his favourite songs. Starting in Melbourne on 24 November, the tour will also visit Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The Sydney-born star of hit movies such as X-Men and Les Misérables said he has…
