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Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo, in full Olivia Isabel Rodrigo, (born February 20, 2003, Murrieta, California, U.S.), American singer, songwriter, and actress who first gained popularity with a role on the television show High School Musical: The Musical—The Series (2019–) and who later launched a successful music career.

Rodrigo grew up in Temecula, California. Her father was a family therapist of Filipino heritage, and her mother was a teacher of German and Irish ancestry. Rodrigo began taking singing and acting lessons at an early age and a few years later added piano lessons. About the same time, she started writing songs.

In 2015 Rodrigo won the lead role in the musical Grace Stirs Up Success in the American Girl series of family movies. The next year she was cast as Paige Olvera on the Disney Channel TV show Bizaardvark. The series chronicles the comedic adventures of Paige and her best friend, both of whom hope to become famous by writing songs and creating music videos, which they post on their online channel Bizaardvark. After the show ended in 2019, Rodrigo began starring on Disney’s High School Musical: The Musical—The Series. Building on the success of the movie of the same name (and its two sequels), the TV series follows a group of high-school drama club members as they prepare and stage school performances. Rodrigo wrote and performed the song “All I Want” for a 2019 episode. The following year “Just for a Moment,” which she sang and wrote with costar Joshua Bassett, was also featured on the show.

Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo
Rodrigo continued writing and performing songs. In 2021 she released the single “Drivers License,” which she cowrote. A popular pop ballad about teenage heartbreak, it quickly hit number one on the Billboard Top 100. She became the youngest person at the time to top that chart. The song also broke the Spotify records for the most streams of a non-holiday song in a day (about 17 million) and in a week (almost 66 million). A few months later Rodrigo released “Deja Vu.” She cowrote the pop hit, which debuted at number eight on the Billboard Top 100. She thus became the first singer to have her first two singles debut in the top 10 on that chart. The songs were included on her first album, Sour (2021), which features a blend of pop, folk, and alternative rock influences. The concert movie Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U (2022) documents the making of the record. At the Grammy Awards in 2022, Rodrigo won for best new artist, best pop solo performance for “Drivers License,” and best pop vocal album for Sour.

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Paul Tabone

Paul Tabone began performing from the age of 9 and throughout his education attained extraordinary grades in piano, voice and music theory. He was given the honour of the prestigious ‘Most Promising Voice for Music Theatre Award’, both in 2007 & 2009 at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

In 2009 Paul graduated with a Bachelor of Music Theatre from CQ University’s Conservatorium of Music and it proved to be a pinnacle year. He made his solo opera debut in Opera Queensland’s world premiere production of The Dirty Apple.

With a rising reputation as one of Australia’s most promising lyric tenors, Paul was also engaged to perform with Dmand Entertainment’s Tenorissimo.

In 2011 Paul was engaged in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to the acclaimed The Phantom of The Opera, Love Never Dies in the supporting principal role of ‘Squelch’. In the same year he also performed in Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight in Melbourne which is broadcast nationally every Christmas eve. Paul moved to Italy in 2012 where he was engaged as a soloist in Puccini’s renowned opera Turandot in Florence.

In September that year he performed at the New York City Centre, Teatro Menotti (Spoletto) and then Teatro Duse in Bologna with the Luciano Pavarotti Heritage Concert.

In 2014, Paul made his professional operatic debut as Duca di Mantova in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Opera Națională București under the baton of Cristian Sand, with direction by Stephen Barlow. In April Paul performed as Tony in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story for the Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova) under the baton of Maestro Wayne Marshall and also in 2014 he made his debut as B.F Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Teatro dei Gigli (Lucca) in collaboration with the Puccini Foundation of Italy under the direction of Massimo Morelli.

Paul was a second prize winner at the 2013 International Vocal Competition Rinaldo Pellizoni and won the Public Choice Award at the 2014 Canto Festival at Teatro La Fenice (FM).

2015 proved to be another great year for the young tenor from Ingham, Queensland when he returned to the Opera Națională București for further performances as Duca Di Mantova in Stephen Barlow’s production of Rigoletto. And in the same year Paul was also invited to reprise the role of ‘Squelch’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies at the Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg (Germany) called, Liebe Stirbt Nie - Phantom II.

Paul has recently concluded a four-year contract at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s Glimmering West End in the role of Ubaldo Piango in the 33rd year of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of The Opera. Paul continues his success in the role of Ubaldo Piangi as he returns to Australia in the Handa Opera outdoor production directed by Simon Phillips and also in the Lawrence Connor directed, Cameron Mackintosh production of "The Phantom of The Opera" that will perform for a limited season at the Sydney Opera House & The Arts Centre Melbourne in 2022 and 2023. Paul continues to tour internationally with three shows called "Viva Pavarotti - An homage to the greatest tenor of our time", "Golden Days - The Songs of Mario Lanza, Gene Kelly and More" and "The Best of West End"

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Anamanaguchi

ANAMANAGUCHI IS PETER BERKMAN (DALLAS), ARY WARNAAR (NEW YORK CITY), LUKE SILAS (LOS ANGELES) AND JAMES DEVITO (PROVIDENCE), ORIGINALLY FORMED IN NEW YORK. THEY ARE A MULTI-FACETED GROUP OF RECORDING ARTISTS & CREATIVE DIRECTORS (I.E. A BAND).

THEY ARE LIVE PERFORMERS & MUSIC COMPOSERS-- IN 2023 SCORING THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETFLIX SERIES 'SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF' WITH CO-COMPOSER JOE TRAPANESE (TRON: LEGACY, NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU), THE SOUNDTRACK BECAME AN AMAZON TOP SELLER. THEIR LATEST ALBUM [USA] WAS RELEASED ON THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN INDEPENDENT POLYVINYL RECORDS IMPRINT.

ANAMANAGUCHI BEGAN SCORING IN 2010 WITH UBISOFT'S SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME, RESULTING IN A BILLBOARD-CHARTING SOUNDTRACK RELEASED BY ABKCO RECORDS. THEIR ORIGINAL COMPOSITION WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN TV (CBS SATURDAY MORNING), FILM (21 JUMP STREET), VIDEO GAMES (ROCKET LEAGUE, LITTLE BIG PLANET), AND VARIOUS BRANDS (DISCORD, TELFAR, TACO BELL, TARGET).

THE BAND HAS TOURED ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND ASIA, INCLUDING FESTIVALS LOLLAPALOOZA (CHICAGO), ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (SEOUL & MIAMI), OSHEAGA (MONTRÉAL). THEIR LIVE SHOWS INCLUDE VISUAL SET PRODUCTION FROM BAND MEMBER DEVITO (FOUNDER OF SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY, KNOWN FOR THEIR WORK WITH TAYLOR SWIFT, LADY GAGA).

ANAMANAGUCHI IS AN INTERNET BAND. WHILE THE FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT AS A TRADITIONAL ROCK BAND ON STAGE (GUITAR, BASS AND DRUMS), THEY ARE MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS CLASSICALLY TRAINED IN MUSIC COMPOSITION, HOLD DEGREES IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION, AND HAVE A LESS-INSTITUTIONALLY-RECOGNIZED SPECIALTY IN EARLY VIDEO GAME CONSOLE MUSIC PRODUCTION (SUCH AS NES, SNES, AND GAME BOY).

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Underscores (USA)

April Harper Grey (born April 21, 2000), known professionally as Underscores (stylized in lowercase), is an American musician. She grew up listening to artists like Jack White, Beck, and Madonna, becoming interested in filmmaking and composing music at a young age. Grey began releasing dubstep music on SoundCloud at the age of 13, eventually incorporating other genres. After releasing three extended plays (EPs) from 2018 to 2020, she rose to prominence with her debut album Fishmonger in March 2021. She released its companion EP and opened for 100 gecs on tour later that year. Grey performed her first headlining tour in early 2022 and concluded the "Fishmonger era" with a pop song in early 2023. She released her second album Wallsocket in September 2023 on the Mom + Pop record label. It was promoted with four singles, an alternate reality game, and a tour of North America and Europe.

Grey's early influences include Skrillex and 100 gecs. Wallsocket was inspired by artists such as Imogen Heap, Bruce Springsteen, and Sufjan Stevens, as well as country music, 2010s pop, and horror films. Her style has been noted as diverse, playful, but precise, encompassing genres such as hyperpop, pop-punk, dubstep, indie pop, rock, and Midwest emo.

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The Buoys

The Buoys were an American pop/rock band from the early 1970s. Its membership included Bill Kelly, Fran Brozena, Jerry Hludzik, Carl Siracuse and Chris Hanlon, based in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania area. They are most famous for the banned song "Timothy", which was written for them by Rupert Holmes.

The Buoys are most famous for their recording of Rupert Holmes's "Timothy", a song deliberately written to get banned, based on the theme of cannibalism. Holmes himself selected the group to record the song.[1]

Recorded at Scepter Recording Studios in New York City and released by Scepter Records in December 1970, with whom the Buoys had been signed but previously ignored, the song hit No. 17 on US charts in 1971.

In 1963, there had been a mine cave-in in Sheppton, Pennsylvania, a small mining community outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Rupert Holmes told rock journalist Maxim Furek, “I learned about the Sheppton Mine Disaster after Timothy was on the charts. If I had known about that at the time, I probably never would have written the song because I don’t want to make fun of something that’s tragic.”[2]

Scepter executives did not catch what the song was about until after it started climbing the charts, after which they claimed that Timothy was a mule. Holmes rejected this attempt to change the premise of his song; he had intended it to be offensive. Holmes, with D. Jordan, wrote a less-successful hit for them titled "Give Up Your Guns" (1972), an epic narrative dealing with an escaped bank robber.

Much more serious in tone than their previous hit, "Give Up Your Guns" reached only No. 84. By contrast, "Give Up Your Guns" was a massive hit twice in mainland Europe, when originally released, and when re-released in 1979.

Holmes wrote a number of other songs for the band, including "The Prince of Thieves", "Bloodknot", and "Tomorrow", most of which had much of the darkness but little of the humor of "Timothy". Like "Give Up Your Guns", they are complaints by criminals.

Holmes now writes Broadway musicals. Rock journalist Maxim Furek later wrote a book connecting Sheppton to what he called The Sheppton Mythology.

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Forever 80s

Direct from sell out Australian shows, Australia’s number one ‘80s touring show, Forever 80s is coming to MEMO Music Hall for one unforgettable night.

Prep that neon, put on those leg warmers and relive the soundtrack of the best generation.

A time of music’s biggest hair and biggest hits!

Turn back time and sing along to Wham!, Whitney Houston, Billy Idol, A-ha, Tina Turner, Prince, Cyndy Lauper, Bon Jovi and more. A night with Forever '80s, is a night to reminisce and is simply not to be missed.

Get excited, grab your closest and secure your tickets today. Don't miss out because you Just Can't Get Enough '80’s music!

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Eric Weideman

Front man of Australian band 1927, Eric Weideman started out in the music industry by appearing on Hey Hey its Saturdays Red Faces segment. It didn’t take long for him to be noticed by Moving Pictures Garry Frost, which kick-started his career leading to the formation of 1927. Residing in Perth for a number of years now, Eric looks forward to his upcoming tour and continuing to write and create music.

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J.P Shilo

J.P. Shilo is actually the birth name of former Hungry Ghosts member John Brooks. An Australian slowcore instrumental group similar to fellow Australian group the Dirty Three, Hungry Ghosts broke up following the release of their debut album, Alone, Alone (which was produced by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley and put out on his Smells Like imprint), in 2000. The breakup hit Brooks hard, and he reverted to the name J.P. Shilo, then essentially withdrew from the music scene, emerging several years later studying Tibetan Buddhism at the Tara Institute in Melbourne. While at the institute he began setting musical ideas down on a four-track machine, and when Shelley heard them, he offered to release them on his label. The resulting album, As Happy as Sad Is Blue, appeared from Smells Like in 2006. Shilo recently began playing with another Australian band, the Black Eyed Susans.

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Russell Crowe

He was named Rome’s Ambassador to the world last year, awarded as “Global Icon” by GQ magazine, but he was also barred entry from a suburban Japanese restaurant in Melbourne for not wearing the correct attire, on a Friday, at lunchtime, in 37° heat. A non-story that became global news.

Whether he’s telling the story, or people are telling a story about him, life’s always interesting if you’re Russell Crowe.

In May and June, he’s playing music and bringing his Indoor Garden Party to towns and cities on the east coast.
An “Indoor Garden Party” is, he says “an event, a band, a happening. It’s fluid. The personnel changes, but it’s always big. It’s like a festival where I gather people I admire, musicians and storytellers, and we put on a show.”

Until January this year, with 2 concerts in his home town of Coffs Harbour, Crowe had not performed music in Australia since 2014. Yet, within that same time, he had done announced and unannounced concerts in New York, London, Leeds, Dublin, Stockholm, Reykjavik, LA and released the Indoor Garden Party Album, The Musical.

The concept started in 2009 in a pub outside London owned by the chat show legend, Michael Parkinson, and it has kept going in a haphazard, ad lib way ever since.
With this configuration, Crowe brings to the foreground The Gentlemen Barbers, who he has been quietly tinkering with for the last four years.
“There’s an attitude about this band. It’s got a groove. We do a lot of story songs, but we also know we are here to blow out the cobwebs and give the audience a good night”. Grabbing time between the shoots of films like Unhinged, Thor: Love & Thunder, The Greatest Beer Run and his next movie release, The Pope’s Exorcist, the band have been gathering, sometimes for weeks at a time just playing, recording, talking, gelling. The result went on stage in Coffs Harbour in January to packed houses, and it was decided, as they say, to “take the show on the road”.

The relationships within the band go back 30 years. Dave Kelly (drums) and Stewart Kirwan (trumpet) were members of Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, as well as playing with Crowe in The Ordinary Fear of God, which included Stu Hunter (piano), and in its touring form also included Chris Kamzelas (guitar). James Hazelwood (bass) has fit right in and shares friendships within the band that go back decades.

Joining this tour are a pair of amazing singers from Ireland.
From County Tyrone in Northern Ireland is Janet Devlin. She first made a splash as a contestant in the 2011 UK version of X factor where she won the audience’s heart.
She has a uniquely beautiful voice and has continued to release albums and singles to acclaim since.
From the town of Cavan, comes Lorraine O’Reilly. Thrown together with Crowe for a duet on the Bible Code Sundays album “Walk like Kings”, they became friends and have performed together since 2017.
Famous for her gorgeous, rasping, powerhouse vocals, Lorraine has done Indoor Garden Party shows in London, Stockholm, Leeds, and at home in Ireland joining them on stage at the Olympia in Dublin.
Also on this tour, in acoustic mode, is a young Maroubra based Sydney band called Myth of Her. You’d think that opening a show with so many acts might intimidate a young band, but these boys got called back for encores at the two Indoor Garden Party shows that they performed at in Coffs Harbour in January this year. They are mature beyond their years and deeply talented.

This east coast tour includes pubs, clubs, and theatres. “I like playing in pubs. It’s what I did growing up. It’s my version of theatre. Even though my day job has a huge claim on my time, I’ve never not played music. My journey to film starts with playing in bands, touring around, releasing records. The band work led to musical theatre (Grease, Rocky Horror Show, Blood Brothers) and miraculously, a film director saw me performing in Blood Brothers and asked me to audition.”
The rest, as they say, is history. Some 40+ international awards later, including BAFTA, SAG, Academy Award, Golden Globes, Crowe still keeps his love for the immediacy of live performance.
Asked if the shows will change between pubs and theatres, Crowe replied “Probably. I imagine when everyone has a comfy seat, I’ll tell more stories. After all, that’s what it’s about, songs or films. It’s always about the story. In the pubs and clubs, we will be putting the foot down. The Gentlemen Barbers sway between R&B, Gospel, dirty country songs about murder, dark waltzes, and powerful inspiring singalongs. Should be a good night.”

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Rick Charles

Born in India in the southern state of Madras on 12th March 1965 the youngest of 10 children. Adelerick Charles Hogg migrated to Melbourne, Australia with Parents Malcolm & Violet, seven sisters & two brothers in early 1968.

At the tender age of 7 Adelerick, received his first acoustic guitar - a Christmas present from his father. Learning a few basic chords from his elder brother, Adelerick began his quest to further master this instrument.

Through primary school days he performed for his classmates, and won first prize - a candy bar at the school camp talent quest. This event ignited his passion for singing.

During High School he broadened his musical ability and mastered the alto saxophone with the high school orchestra. Upon completion of schooling in 1981, his dreams continued, and the passion to become an entertainer grew. However his father disapproved, as it was a difficult industry to break into.

In view of pleasing his father, Adelerick took on an apprenticeship in the field of printing. On conclusion of his printing apprenticeship, he approached his father once again for permission to follow his dreams. With qualifications behind him, his father gave full support in order to help him achieve his goals.

In 1985 Adelerick changed his stage name to Ricky Charles. In 1989 Ricky Charles was discovered by Adam Dion and Nina Randall of Casino Promotions. Casino Promotions changed his stage name from Ricky Charles to Rick Charles and placed him in numerous successful stage productions, nationally and internationally, also appearing within the fields of television, radio and media.

In 2004 Rick decided to leave Casino Promotions and form his own production company. “A C Hogg Productions".
Since winning the candy bar and guided solely by his strong Christian faith. Rick has not lost sight of his childhood dreams and he continues to dazzle audiences & fans to date.

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