News: GANGgajang set to headline Nimbin Roots Festival in October 2024

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Day 4 began with a trip to catch Round Mountain Girls, a lively folk-rock band who I had only caught glimpses of in the past, and was keen to see. I certainly wasn’t disappointed, and their high-energy performance has ensured that I will almost definitely be catching them again in future. Next up was the …

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Day 3 of my Bluesfest marathon started with me going along to catch the 2022 Bluesfest Busking Competition winners, Loose Content, a local indie/alt rock band. Whilst not your traditional blues/roots band, they were highly entertaining, and drew quite a few of their friends, family and other supporters to the festival. My third dose of …

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Still celebrating The Wait, and following the release of their extraordinary memoir No Bull, Vika & Linda have announced a July regional Victorian and Tasmanian shows. The Wait is not only the title of their acclaimed latest album, it is what Vika & Linda and their many fans in regional Victoria and Tasmania – where The Wait tour shows were cancelled last August …

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Irish-born Áine Tyrrell, is taking to the road to showcase her contemporary global sound. Tired of being pigeon-holed as an Irish folk singer, Tyrrell is keen to show her wares as a woman of substance; a singer-songwriter who is so much more than a stereotypical Irish folk singer, and who has incorporated a myriad of …

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Day 2 began with me excited to get back to Frank Sultana, who had played on Day 1, totally captivating me with his down and dirty Delta blues style, and who was first up at 11.30 a.m. What a great way to get the day off to a flying start. My interest had been piqued …

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The producers of Unify Gathering proudly announce Unify Off The Record 2023. Hitting Mackay, Adelaide, Wollongong, Hobart and Frankston, Unify Off The Record 2023 features a diverse line up of Australia’s premiere heavy acts including ARIA chart topping Northlane, Thy Art Is Murder, Thornhill, Make Them Suffer, Teenage Joans, In Hearts Wake, Alpha Wolf, Ocean Grove, Yours Truly, Void …

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Hailing from Western Australia, The Waifs released their seminal, four-time ARIA award-winning album, Up All Night in 2003, and this tour, spanning from June to September, sees them inviting a number of friends and special guests to appear with them along the way to celebrate 20 years since its’ release. Recorded between LA and Melbourne, …

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Following on from the unexpected evening’s entertainment on the day prior to the official opening of the world-famous festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest turned on the weather to see in their first day of acts. I am not going to tell you about all of the acts, just those that I had the privilege to see, …

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Australian indie folk-rock darlings, The Paper Kites, have released a second track from the upcoming At The Roadhouse Project album. Titled Till The Flame Turns Blue, the song sees the band deliver a burningly beautiful love song, with Sam Bentley’s tender vocals and acoustic guitar surrounded by an angelic mix of gorgeous pedal steel, sweetly-injected …

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An exciting new innovation has been unveiled at Bluesfest Byron Bay, with an extra evening’s entertainment put on for the early-arriving, 5 day campers.These particular patrons are viewed as the backbone and, some may say, lifeblood of the Bluesfest being. As a reward, and as a way of encouraging people to arrive as early as …

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