Ciaran Gribbin promises The Beatles First Five show is going to be a great night of fun and excitement! His enthusiasm for the project shines through in his chat with The Upside News as he talks about the Fab Four, INXS, Madonna and U2, and his lifelong passion for melody.
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A healthy and happy Les McKeown is very excited to be bringing his latest version of the Bay City Rollers back to Australia for a series of shows celebrating those heady days when Rollermania rocked the world. And a lot of people are getting excited and buying tickets!
Steve Hackett brings his Genesis Revisited live show to Australia – playing Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in August. Pack your kit and get ready for the road trip!
Get hold of Ben Wright-Smith’s album, The Great Divorce, listen to it once and then I bet you will find it very hard not to hit the repeat button and play it again and again…
Alison Krauss’s new album, Windy City, is a lacklustre stroll through the standards of country music’s blander middle of the road songbook.
Little Big Town have tried really hard here to give us what we need, an affirming and uplifting slice of country-pop perfection, that will please old fans and win them a multitude of new ones.
An entertaining and well-designed production that provided appropriate, and somewhat overdue, recognition of an important historical event whose anniversary should really have received even wider acknowledgement in other media.
The Upside News had the chance to talk to John Steel, founder member of The Animals, about those heady years when British pop and rock bands dominated the globe, and also about his years working on the other side of the music industry fence in rock management.
You can sense the waves of affection rolling out across the audience and washing around Luke McGregor when […]
A chat with Black Star Riders singer, Ricky Warwick, about the band’s new record, their career so far, his recent solo work and Thin Lizzy’s formidable legacy.
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