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New Zealands favourite Aussie returns: Jimmy Barnes announces July tour 2 May, 2021 07:00 PM 3 minutes to read Jimmy Barnes is coming back to New Zealand in July 2021. Photo / Getty Images NZ Herald You dont have to wait any longer Jimmy Barnes fans, because the borders are open and our favourite Aussie is coming back!. It would take more than a mere global pandemic to stop Jimmy Barnes. While most of us spent 2020 binge-watching TV shows, Jimmy and his wife Jane entertained the world with dail...

While most of us spent 2020 binge-watching TV shows, Jimmy and his wife Jane entertained fans with daily ‘at home’ performances that attracted more than 100 million views on social media. Barnes also used 2020’s Covid-19 lockdown’s to learn the bagpipes, release a non-fiction book, start work on a novel and help Jane create a forthcoming recipe collection. Plus he somehow found time to write and record a new album with his loved ones that’s aptly titled, Flesh And Blood. Supplied F...

The borders are open and our favourite Aussie is coming back! It would take more than a global pandemic to stop Jimmy Barnes. While most of us spent 2020 bingewatching TV shows, Jimmy and his wife Jane entertained the world with daily ‘at home’ performances that attracted more than 100 million views on social media. The Australian rock icon also used 2020’s COVID lockdowns to learn the bagpipes, release a non-fiction book, start work on a novel and help Jane create a forthcoming recipe ...

Musician Dianne Swann returning to Northland for shows to promote first solo album 28 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read Dianne Swann will be performing in her home town of Whangārei next month on a tour to promote her debut solo album The War On Peace Of Mind. Dianne Swann will be performing in her home town of Whangārei next month on a tour to promote her debut solo album The War On Peace Of Mind. Mike Dinsdale is Northern Advocate deputy editormike.dinsdale@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat Afte...

Old dogs and new tricks The impact of the avant-garde. I called my dad today to get his opinion on some things about music.  Yes, he’s Gary Briggs of Briggsy Boys fame; part of the highly lauded duo that play dim Sutherland Shire pubs and clubs about twice a year. Their setlist is a tapestry of 70s and 80s hits that set the sticky dance floor alight with the wayward legs and arms of forty-somethings. One such gem is Stone Temple Pilot’s Plush, which my dad thinks isn’t popular enough to...

Advertisement Amy Shark live on stage and pre-recorded tracks from Jimmy Barnes and Crowded House made the second Music From the Home Front special again, but there were added ingredients this time around. Michael Gudinski’s children, Matt and Kate, playing key roles in the broadcast was a powerful reminder of the project championed by their father, who died early last month. Amy Shark was among the many performers at the Home Front concert. Credit:Ian Laidlaw Kate interviewed some of the ...

Australia’s music elite joined the children of Michael Gudinski to light up Melbourne’s Myer Music Bowl for the Home Front concert championed by the music giant.

(1916) served an explicit role as propaganda and recruitment tools, often glorifying the sacrifice, mateship and heroism of the young men who enlisted. Some, like the Boer war-era Sons of Australia , predate the commonwealth, with a call to patriotism that came firmly couched in the language of empire: (“Sons of Australia / Are your pulses thrilling? / Thrilling at the chance to thrash / Your empire’s foes”) . But not all wartime songwriters viewed Australia’s role in a contest of Europ...

Joy McKean in the 1950s. Courtesy Kirkpatrick Family Joy McKean, Australia’s “queen of country,” is the 2021 recipient of the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music, one of the highest accolades in the nations music industry. It’s a fitting tribute for McKean, who paved the way for generations of homegrown country artists over a career spanning upwards of 70 years. The trailblazing country singer and songwriter first made her mark in the 1940s and ‘50s, working ...

Now aged 91, McKean composed “The Biggest Disappointment, “Ringer from the Top End,” “Walk a Country Mile” and “Indian Pacific,” and did so while touring regional and remote Australia at a time when the perceived role of women was that of home maker. McKean will be in the room for the presentation during the 2021 APRA Awards, set to take place April 28 in Sydney. Her contribution to Australian country music “as a pioneering songwriter, bush balladeer, touring performer and artis...