In 1989 The Screaming Jets came roaring out of their hometown of Newcastle, NSW. Thirty years on and the Jets are rocking as hard as ever! Dirty Thirty is a 2CD set celebrating the band’s greatest hits including the chart-topping Aussie anthem Better as well as Shivers, October Grey and Tunnel. Front man Dave Gleeson and his band mates are touring Australia throughout May/June this year to coincide with the release of Dirty Thirty. One of Australia’s most enduring bands.
Festival Records and Warner Music Australia are excited to announce the release of the definitive overview of the great Aussie Rock scene from '70s and '80s and into the '90s: 'The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock Vol. 1,' on 4CD set! Featuring a whopping 91 tracks 'The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock Vol. 1' focuses on the birthplace of classic OZ Rock - the pub! It includes seminal songs from virtually every successful Aussie rock band from the mid-'70s through to the early-'90s, including Cold Chisel, The Angels, Divinyls, Midnight Oil, Mental As Anything, Baby Animals, Split Enz, Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls, Men At Work, Australian Crawl, Skyhooks, The Screaming Jets, Rose Tattoo, Dragon, Tmg, Sunnyboys, Stars, The Saints, Noiseworks, Black Sorrows, Models, The Sports, Renee Geyer, Mi-Sex, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Boom Crash Opera, Stevie Wright, Choirboys, Icehouse And Flowers, The Reels, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Mondo Rock, Richard Clapton, Radiators, The Badloves, Boom Crash Opera, Tim Finn, The Church and more!.
Built around material Warman first premiered live with his band Three Minutes, Walking Into Mirrors erupted around the Australian hit single “Screaming Jets,” a masterful, electronics-driven slab of wartorn paranoia...
Tonk have recorded a fantastic old-school hard rock record with famed producer Nick Didia (Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots, RATM, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen). Tonk hail from Canberra Australia. And like the Aussie legends before them, this hard-rock quintet just want to have a great time delivering their own brand of hard gritty tunes… Screaming vocals, ripping guitars and bombastic drums leave nothing left for the faint hearted. You'll love the experience of course, whether it's your first time or you are a longstanding Tonkist, wherever you come across them, when Jinks, Steve, Ben, Matt and Mikey get in a room together, hard rockin' sparks fly!!! The music of Tonk may be of the classic ilk, but its unapologetic affection for old-school rock makes it infectious…
Delivering raucous hard rock in the tradition of contemporaries like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, the Angels are among the longest-lasting and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Australian pub circuit. Their roots date back to 1973, when singer Doc Neeson and guitarist Rick Brewster first teamed up at university in an eccentric acoustic covers group dubbed the Moonshine Jug and String Band; by the following year they had begun adopting a more straightforward and electric approach, rechristening themselves the Keystone Angels in the process…
Delivering raucous hard rock in the tradition of contemporaries like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, the Angels are among the longest-lasting and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Australian pub circuit. Their roots date back to 1973, when singer Doc Neeson and guitarist Rick Brewster first teamed up at university in an eccentric acoustic covers group dubbed the Moonshine Jug and String Band; by the following year they had begun adopting a more straightforward and electric approach, rechristening themselves the Keystone Angels in the process…
Featuring 101 tracks that are either synonymous with sports or are uplifting tracks that will have you achieving your PB on or off the field. Tracks include classics such as Little River Band "Playing To Win", Rose Tattoo "We Can't Be Beaten", Pat Benatar "All Fired Up", Survivor "Eye Of The Tiger" through to recent tracks Coldplay "Viva La Vida", Elvis Presley vs JXL "A Little Less Conversation", Jamiroquai "Canned Heat" and Jet "Rip It Up". Something for all sports fans and lovers of great music.
The team behind last year's excellent The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock compilation return with another four-CD instalment paying testament to the halcyon days of our nation's live music scene, and fortunately they have a deep well from which to draw tunes and inspiration.