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Adele The Gabba 04.03.2016 Not since Jeff Thomson opened the bowling from the Vulture Street end in 1975  has an entire city been so unified in events at the Gabba. […]

Who wouldn’t want to spend Valentine’s Day with Bruce Springsteen? This week, the citadel of rock and roll has temporarily relocated to Brisbane, Australia. The last time Bruce and the

BEN FOLDS and yMUSIC QPAC Concert Hall (Brisbane) 18.08.2016 Ben Folds knows that one of the secrets to creating new music, while maintaining your audience, and possibly expanding it, is

Glen Hansard QPAC 18.10.16 “Yeah, It’s a mighty long way down rock and roll/from the Liverpool Docks to the Hollywood Bowl”. Mott The Hoople sang that line on ‘All The

Of course the ‘Queen’ was late. Madonna’s tardiness has become the subtext of her Australian Rebel Heart tour. When this reviewer heard that fan club members had stood in the

ELTON JOHN BEC 08.12.2015 By his own recollection, this is Elton John’s seventeenth tour to Australia. He’s been coming here ever since he made it big in the 1970’s. Back

TAYLOR SWIFT Suncorp Stadium 05.12.2015 Taylor Swift is the undisputed global Queen of Pop. Tonight she played to 50 000 paying customers at Suncorp Stadium. The last time she played

AC/DC QSAC 12.11.2015 AC/DC are back on their Rock or Bust Tour and, again, they’re playing to big numbers all over the country. Tonight, the first of two show at

Fleetwood Mac Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10.11.2015 Wow – the expectation that hung in the air of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre was palpable. Sure, Fleetwood Mac have played Australia in semi-recent

Neil Diamond BEC 03.11.15 There’s no doubting Neil Diamond’s stature at the upper echelon of great songwriters and performers. This writer has been watching Diamond bring his mix of top

Robbie Williams Brisbane Entertainment Centre September 17. We live in an age when the word “brilliant” tends to be so overused that it loses any cache or true meaning. 41-year-old

William Shatner 11.09.2015 QPAC William Shatner began his current Australian tour playing to a full house in Brisbane. Dubbed Shatner’s World … We Just Live In It, the show sees

A State of Grace: The Music of Tim and Jeff Buckley QPAC 25.09.2015 You’d have to have balls of steel to produce a concert these days. Let’s face it, there’s

Two years ago Libby Munro set QTC alight with her part in David Ives’ Venus In Fur. ‘Set alight’ isn’t some naff metaphor. Literally, if the actress had turned it

AMERICA Jupiters 16.05.2015 America at Jupiters on the Gold Coast! You don’t get much more “Vegas on the GC” than that. The show room, which is very plush, is packed

SPANDAU BALLET BEC 13.05.2015 Spandau Ballet made their first, post-heyday return, to Australia about five years ago in the company of Tears For Fears. Then, the pairing made for a

Colin Hay 15.05.2015 Tivoli Ever since Men At Work drew stumps frontman Colin Hay steadily been building a solo career. When MAW were massive, with #1’s galore here and on

BACKSTREET’S BACK. “I need you to act like you’re 15 years old again tonight. Can you do it?” yelled Nick Carter. Let’s go back in time. Shall we? For anyone

Ricky Martin/Delta Goodrem Brisbane Entertainment Centre 28.04.2015 With Townsville behind him, Ricky Martin hit Brisbane for the big city debut of his One World 2015 tour. And – wow –

John Farnham/Olivia Newton-John Brisbane Entertainment Centre 14.04.2015 If you’ve seen a great show there’s always one particular moment that stays with you. This show had several. Before we start with

Rod Stewart/James Reyne 07.04.2015 Brisbane Entertainment Centre This is a show of two halves. Rod Stewart is the big name on the marquee. James Reyne is the ‘support’ act. Reyne

Kylie Minogue Brisbane Entertainment Centre 21.03.15 By the time Giorgio Moroder walked to his wheels of steel,  the dance floor at the foot of stage was packed. The video screens

ROXETTE Brisbane Entertainment Centre Feb 10 2015 Three years (almost) to the day since Roxette hit our shores in what was clearly a celebration beyond all others and here we

The Eagles Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10.03.2015 It’s their third trip to Australia since ‘hell froze over’ in the mid-90’s. This time around the Eagles are presenting their History of the

Drake Brisbane Entertainment Centre  05.03.2015 Australian audiences have been made to wait 6 long years for Drake’s maiden voyage down under. It’s not a great deal of time in what

The Veronicas. Sanctified Tour. Brisbane City Hall.  Sat 21st Feb, 2015. Tonight the Veronicas rocked Brisbane City Hall on the final show of their Australian Sanctified tour. Seven years between

One Direction, Suncorp Stadium 11.02.2015 Two weeks ago this writer spotted a One Direction annual in the aisles of a discount bookstore and assumed the bubble has burst. They’d been

LAMB The Tivoli. 10.02.2015 WAITING In line at the box office for tonight’s LAMB gig, three immaculately groomed young men discuss how they are really looking forward to tonight’s performance

  Darren Middleton and Guy Pearce. Cremorne Theatre QPAC. Brisbane. 12.02.2015 When I first saw that Guy Pearce and Darren Middleton were playing shows together,  I was immediately intrigued. The

Guy Sebastian Madness Tour- Sat 14th Feb BEC.   The Brisbane Entertainment Centre was in intimate mode for Guy Sebastian’s stop on his Madness tour. A cross section of kids and teenagers,

John Legend 08.12.2014   Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. By Craig L Thomson Sometimes you get a venue that perfectly fits an artist. Tonight, John Legend and the Brisbane Convention

Tori Amos November 21st QPAC. Words:  Craig L Thomson. Tonight at QPAC The Lion King is playing in the Lyric theatre whilst Tori Amos is playing in the Concert Hall.