Christie Eliezer

Victorian hard rock band Airbourne proved their popularity in the UK and Europe at Metal Hammer magazine s Golden God Awards in London. The band s lead singer and guitarist Joel O’Keeffe took out the…

Denis Handlin, chairman and CEO of Australia and New Zealand, and president, Asia, of Sony Music Entertainment; Michael Coppel, Chairman of Live Nation Australia and New Zealand; and Paul Dainty,…

PAUL McCARTNEY TOUR SET FOR NOVEMBER? Those rumours about a Paul McCartney magical mystery tour which intensified after Macca s shows in Japan grew stronger over the weekend. Apparently the great man…

MINISTRY OF SOUND ANNOUNCES MORE LINEUPS Sydney s new Ministry of Sound nightclub at the ivy, which opens tomorrow with Peking Duk and the USA s Sandy Rivera/Kings of Tomorrow, has announced more…

Tasmania s Dark Mofo kicked off yesterday until June 21 with ticket sales up 110% and generating $1.85 million so far, according to its Creative Director Leigh Carmichael. In 2016, Dark Mofo opened…

According to PwC s 2017 Global Entertainment and Media Outlook forecast, total music industry revenues will grow for a fourth consecutive year to US$49 billion this year. The global music industry s…

Live Nation is adamnent that security measures put in place for its 2017 summer festivals worked affectively at its first test on the first night of its first festival this season, the three day Rock…

Image: Aurora Spiegeltent (John Staples) MAP 57 DEBUTS IN MELBOURNE Australia’s biggest independently funded performing arts festival, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, heads to Melbourne s St Kilda…

Above: Chris Taylor North American entertainment media company Entertainment One (eOne), which already has a strong presence in Australia for film and TV distribution, has signalled it is upping the…

TFS RAISE A STORM WITH AGENCY DEAL Tropical Fuck Storm (also to be known as TFS) is the new band put together by The Drones Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin, with Lauren Hammel (High Tension) on…

WAM s annual general meeting last week saw the arrival of two new faces, Chris Edmonson and Mark Spillane, on its 2017 board. Edmonson is presenter and producer at ABC Local Radio Albany and Great…

With exorbitant prices being charged by scalpers a current hot topic, UK ticket resale platform Twickets officially launched in Australia this morning. Twickets counters secondary tickets by enabling…