During their slot at the ”Optimus Alive” festival in Lisbon on July 11, Pearl Jam hinted to the audience that they will be taking a long time from touring. Reading from a prepared sheet of paper, Eddie Vedder made the announcement in Portuguese saying: “Thank you for coming to [...]
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It has been announced that Paul Dempsey will be returning to Australia to join Powderfinger at their final live shows of their Sunsets tour. Paul plays the following dates with Powderfinger: Sunday 3rd: Mackay Showgrounds Big Top-Tickets from here. Thurs 7th: Rockhampton Showgrounds-Tickets from here. Tues 12th: Canberra University, Big Top [...]
President of the U.S.A, Barrack Obama has personally chosen The Killers to play at the White House’s “Salute To The Military” United Service Organizations Concert. The concert, which is in honour of the US troops, takes place every year during the 4th of July celebrations. Speaking of the opportunity, lead singer, Brandon Flowers said: “It is a monumental [...]
The organisers of the Scottish music festival “T In The Park” has emailed those who will be attending the 2010 festival, which is held over the 9th-11th July. The organisers have announced that there will be a ban on vuvuzelas at the event. In the email the festivals organisers said the horn-like instruments (which are ridiculously popular at [...]
Triple J’s “Impossible Music Festival” begins tomorrow! For the next 7 days Triple J will be playing some of their best live recorded music from 35 years worth of recordings! Check out the lineup below, to make sure you don’t miss your favourite acts! Monday 28th June: 12 noon: ARCADE FIRE live from the Enmore Theatre – Sydney, [...]
Muse headlined the Pyramid Stage on the second night of this year’s Glastonbury festival, with this being their second time to headline the festival in six years. After leaving the stage for their encore, the band surprised everyone by returning with none other than The Edge, guitarist of U2. After playing U2′s classic “Where The Streets Have No Name”, [...]
Belgium music festival Pukkelpop has announced this year’s (massive) lineup for the 3 day festival which will take place over August 19th,20th and 21st. It will play host to acts such as Placebo, Iron Maiden, Queens Of The Stone Age, Snow Patrol, The Prodigy, Blink 182, The XX, Eels, The Kooks, The Flaming Lips, Seasick Steve, [...]
Following Bono’s very serious back injury which resulted in him having emergency surgery in Munich, U2 have had to reschedule 16 “U2360°” shows from Salt Lake City on June 3rd, through to New Jersey’s Meadowlands Stadium on July 19th, to 2011. Not only have the band had to postpone the rest of their tour, but they have [...]
At the beginning of the year, as Muse was touring the country for the “Big Day Out” festival, they explained that they were not doing any sideshows as they were hopefully returning at the end of the year for a tour. Well.. they are! Muse will be back in December for four shows in Brisbane, [...]
