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Brisbane Festival 2020

September 4th - 26th 2020

Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Brisbane.
We believe that a Festival should be festive and celebrate the personality of its city.

We are Brisbane’s most anticipated event of the year, bringing people together as they awake from their winter slumber for an explosion of arts performances and experiences.

Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you can experience in the world. We redefine what an International Arts Festival looks and feels like, staying ahead of the game and bringing the next generation with us.

The river and iconic city landmarks are our stage as we create the art that enlivens, delights and disrupts. The curated multi-arts program presents a bold international program transporting our audience beyond the everyday through captivating performances and installations from across the world. We participate in global conversations. Brisbane is a city with boundless ambition, and the program celebrates this through collaborations, commissions and presentations.

We are deeply committed to making the impossible possible for our audiences and our artists. Brisbane Festival is an important time of the year when our artists are pushed beyond the horizon to make the work of their dreams come to life. We inspire audiences with new ideas and experiences that leave life-long impressions. We are at the heart of integrating arts and culture as a vital part of Brisbane’s future, creating an unwavering demand for this wonderful Festival.

Brisbane Festival acknowledges this country’s First Nations people and with their leadership and guidance, we celebrate that deep cultural legacy. We create a rich multi-arts program made by and with our local Indigenous community.

As our city landscape changes and undergoes unprecedented growth, we move forward with gusto, determination, authenticity and excitement. Brisbane Festival is seizing the moment and heralding a new beginning.

This is Brisbane Festival 2020-2023.

Various, Brisbane.

Melissa Etheridge Debut Longplay By Kristy Apps And Friends

September 25th 2020

Kristy Apps and friends perform Melissa Etheridge iconic debut album.

Performing the iconic smash hit debut album in full by Melissa Etheridge, much loved and critically acclaimed singer songwriters Kristy Apps and special guests Ofa Fanaika and Roz Pappalardo present this encore performance from their recent sold out shows at What’s Golden in the beautiful Tivoli Theatre (Fortitude Valley) on March 27.

Apps and friends will interpret each song from the album while paying homage to the original form. Performing the pioneering hits Like the Way I Do, Similar Features and Bring Me Some Water in the purpose built What’s Golden venue inside the stunning Tivoli, this will be a memorable night of raw powerful vocals, delicately crafted songs with a healthy intake of rock and roll showcasing the work of this groundbreaking artist paving the way for future generations.

The Tivoli

Pulp Fiction Live By Cheap Fakes

September 26th 2020

Back Due to Popular Demand!

This year now marks the 26th Anniversary of the greatest movie and soundtrack of all time, and no, we’re not talking about Terminator 2 or The Notebook… we’re talking about the almighty PULP FICTION! To celebrate Tarantino’s timeless masterpiece of cinema and music, the legends, CHEAP FAKES will be performing the entire soundtrack live as an 8 piece big band with flawless renditions and amazing visuals on the big screen.

So let’s bring out the gimp and party like it’s 1994. DRESS UP ENCOURAGED!

Limited Tickets, get in quick.

The Triffid

Jeff Martin - The Songs Of Led Zeppelin

September 27th 2020

After a few months in “lockdown”, where many a vinyl record was spun, Jeff Martin is celebrating the songs of Led Zeppelin for ONE NIGHT ONLY at The Triffid on Thursday 16th July – featuring personal and fan favourites from the legendary group, Jeff will perform solo renditions of Led Zeppelin classics over two 40 minute acoustic sets using a collection of Jeff’s rarest instruments.

This event is limited to 100 patrons only and not to be missed for any Jeff Martin or Led Zeppelin fan.

The Triffid

Trent Dalton's Book Launch

September 29th 2020

In Boy Swallows Universe you fell in love with Eli Bell. Now, in All Our Shimmering Skies fall in love with Molly Hook.

Frances Whiting is in-conversation for the Monday shows, and Kathleen Noonan is in conversation for the Tuesday shows with Trent Dalton discussing his new novel All Our Shimmering Skies.

All Our Shimmering Skies is a story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves. It is an odyssey of true love and grave danger; of darkness and light; of bones and blue skies. A buoyant, beautiful and magical novel abrim with warmth, wit and wonder, a love letter to Australia and the art of looking up.

Trent Dalton is a staff writer for the Weekend Australian Magazine and a former assistant editor of The Courier Mail. He's a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year.

His debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, published by HarperCollins in 2018, is a much-loved national bestseller and critically acclaimed, winning the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and in addition, at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the book won a record four ABIA Awards including the prestigious Book of the Year Award.

The Tivoli

2020 NKT-IKBU International Fall Festival

October 2nd - 8th 2020

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Bank

Jack Botts

October 2nd 2020

Jack Botts is excited to announce a fresh handful of intimate shows to celebrate the release of his new single ‘Hold You’ that will be released on August 28th.

Spending the last 18 months on the road across Australia and on the streets of Byron Bay, Jack has coupled headline shows with supporting the likes of Tash Sultana, John Floreani, Pierce Brothers, Ash Grunwald and more. Added to that, Jack has also played festivals such as Land Of Plenty, St. Kilda Festival, The Hills Are Alive and Mountain Goat Valley Crawl.

Jack invites you to enjoy a night of songs, stories and good vibes, surrounded by friends in a uniquely intimate setting. Tickets are limited so don’t miss out.

The Triffid

August River Band

October 2nd 2020

August River Band have had an exciting start to the year, releasing singles "Crazy" and "In My Arms" from their forthcoming debut album, Thank You Pain. They are now bustling with excitement to share the album with fans in a live setting on the day of release at their album launch at The Tivoli on Friday October 2nd! This is following on from the band's special set to a sellout crowd at The Milk Factory in February following the release of their single "Blue Light".

New single "In My Arms" displays the culmination of talents that drew August River Band together, with the band explaining "We all love this song and a lot of each of our personalities went into it; the manic oscillation, the drive, the soaring heights". Hailing from Brisbane, the band consists of Eev Ferreira and Gerard Kerr, with Lil Burrowscontributing on the violin to the songwriting process and recording of the album. The band has the ability to instantly draw in listeners through their unique sound which offers a wild and beautifully juxtaposed chemistry between the tortured singer songwriter, the classically trained violinist and the hard-hitting rock and roll drummer. It is this combination of talents which makes for such an intoxicating live show, made even more so special by the addition of NT's 2019 Live Voice Of the Year Award Winner, Colin Lillie to the lineup.

Also joining the lineup is another local Brisbane band HAM, a 6 piece Soul/Blues/Roots/Funk original band who play from their hearts and sing from their souls. With hook laden songs and warm hug vocal harmonies, HAM are following in the footsteps of the greats like ‘The Band’ and ‘Tedeschi Trucks’. With such a great combination of artists at the Thank You Pain launch show, it is a night that fans will surely not forget.

The Tivoli

Great Gable - AUS/NZ Tour

October 3rd 2020

Like all our mates in the music industry at the moment, we’re devastated to have to postpone our upcoming tour of Australia & New Zealand in April. With things changing so rapidly with COVID-19, we all feel this is the right thing to do and the most important thing is keeping everyone safe.

Our team has worked hard to pull together an even bigger run of shows in October and November to make up for missing these ones, plus we’ve added a bunch of extra shows across regional Australia in a lot of places we haven’t visited yet. We can’t wait to get back on the road to see you all – in the meantime, stay safe, buy merch and stream lots of music x

The Triffid

Russell Morris - Up Close & Personal

October 3rd 2020

After six decades on the road, an album can almost write itself. It might arrive in the space of a few months, fully formed in vision and texture in the mind of the vigilant creator. But it takes a rare combination of talent and circumstances to realise that vision as vividly as Black and Blue Heart.

The Triffid

The Australian Burlesque Festival - Join The Waitlist

October 3rd 2020

The Australian Burlesque Festival is celebrating 11 successful years!

The Big Tease will consist of some of the best and most entertaining international and local burlesque performers. Join us in celebrating traditional Bump 'n’ Grind, vintage-flavoured tease, sizzling cabaret and variety entertainment!

A night of glamorous classic tease and modern neo-burlesque that will dazzle and stimulate the senses! Be delighted, tantalised and pleasantly entertained as you experience jaw-dropping glamour and high quality shows from leading stars of the stage. The biggest celebration of burlesque in the Southern Hemisphere. If you are going to one burlesque event this year make it this one! Starring local, national and some very special stars of the stage.

The Tivoli

Lime Cordiale

October 7th 2020

Emerging from the studio with a new album locked and loaded, brothers Oliver and Louis of Lime Cordiale will launch their second album, “14 Steps to a Better You”, live at The Tivoli. It's the first gig since March for The Tiv, so you know it's going to be a good one!

If their debut album, 'Permanent Vacation' was a permission slip to go your own way, ’14 Steps To A better You’ is a navigation device for those who got lost along the way. Grab your copy of the album with a ticket for only $1 more!

FOR MAXIMUM FUN, BUT MAXIMUM SAFETY:
The Tivoli will be operating under the guidelines of the relevant COVID Safe Plans.
This will be a seated event with groups socially distanced from each other.
The Tivoli will be operating at 50% of our seated capacity - but it's going to be lush, intimate experience you won't want to miss.
Patrons will be required to complete our COVID Information Register on arrival for contract tracing purposes - please arrive on time to ensure a smooth process.
Our bars will of course be operating, but we'll have some new lining-up protocols.

The Tivoli

SLOWLY SLOWLY – ‘RACE CAR BLUES’ ALBUM TOUR

October 8th 2020

After a watershed year in 2019, Melbourne rock favourites Slowly Slowly are kicking off 2020 with the announcement of their third album race Car Blues. The follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2018 effort St. Leonards, Race Car Blues launches today with the reveal of the album’s title track and music video, before the release lands in full on Friday February 28.

The album captures a formative period for Slowly Slowly frontman Ben Stewart. Where St. Leonards found him reflecting on his entire life – harking back to painful moments and trying to rectify them – this album traverses through a crucial 18 months of self-assessment and development.

Describing soaring album closer ‘Race Car Blues‘ in more depth, Stewart explains that the song was something of a “hard chat” with himself. The track and accompanying music video capture Stewart grappling with the incongruence between where he was at as a person and artist and where he wanted to be.

To celebrate the release of ‘Race Car Blues’ Slowly Slowly will hit the road on their biggest tour yet.

The Triffid

The Rubens

October 8th 2020

The Rubens are extremely excited to announce their biggest Australian tour to date – the LIVE IN LIFE tour.

Supported by triple j, the 27-date run will see the five-piece play a combination of metro and regional venues from May through June in celebration of their infectious summer jam, ‘Live In Life’.

The past year has seen The Rubens travel to North America, UK & Europe for headline tours, perform and release their MTV Unplugged Live In Melbourne album, slay the main stage unveiling their collaboration with punk hip-hop star Vic Mensa at Splendour In The Grass AND between all of that, bunker down to write and focus on new music.

As part of their Chucka Bucka’s initiative, the Menangle Mad Men have also embarked on 3 regional tours in the past 18 months – and the Live In Life Tour is another tip of the hat to our music loving friends who may not live near a city – with the band revisiting some old regional favourites as well as some new towns they’ve never played before, including Bundaberg, Warrnambool, Shepparton and more.

2018 proved to be a landmark year for The Rubens, which saw the release of their third album LO LA RU, including hits ‘Never Ever feat. Sarah’ (2 x Platinum), ‘Million Man’ (Gold) and ‘God Forgot’, a mammoth headline tour across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Europe and supporting P!NK on her massive 42-date sell out arena tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Don’t miss your chance to see The Rubens live in 2020!

The Fortitude Music Hall

AITCH

October 9th 2020

Fit and firing after selling out his recent UK tour in seven minutes flat, Manchester MC Aitch will be putting his considerable skills on display at debut shows across New Zealand and Australia. Aitch tickets on sale now.

Currently sitting at number one in the UK with ‘Take Me Back to London’(his collaboration with Ed Sheeran and Stormzy), Aitch (real name Harrison Armstrong) has also recently released his debut EP Aitch20 to much fanfare both at home and abroad.

Still not quite 20, most of Aitch’s childhood friends would probably be more likely to head to Australia for a boozy gap year at this stage of their lives, but such has been the extent of this North Manchester native’s rapid rise, he’ll first set foot on these shores in the midst of a fully blown breakout bonanza.

Whether it’s rap, grime, dubstep or drum & bass, he pilots his rhymes around addictive instrumental orbits, always landing the craft with a wink to his besotted listeners.

The Triffid

Chillinit

October 10th 2020

Originally locked in to grace our stages from February until May, Sydney rapper Chillinit has announced new dates to support his new album The Octagon, with a rescheduled tour ready to go down in October. The record came out in late January and debuted at #2 in the ARIA charts.

Having cut his teeth in Sydney's underground hip-hop scene, Chillinit has since morphed into one of Australia's most revered personalities, causing nationwide conversation wherever he steps foot.

His debut album, Women, Weed & Wordplay was released in late 2018 and stood assertively on the ARIA charts for the entirety of 2019, racking up well over 60 million streams and producing three Gold accredited singles.

Come 2020, Chillinit has already made his mark across Australia, with his rampaging performances at FOMO Festival drawing massive crowds for an early afternoon time slot.

His sophomore album, The Octagon dropped on January 31, and placed victoriously at #2 on the ARIA Album Charts, #1 on ARIA Urban Album Charts and #1 on ARIA Digital Album Charts, with lead single 'Ready For The Pain’ quickly becoming the #1 trending video on YouTube in Australia upon its release.

With his slick wordplay, heartfelt introspection and insatiable appetite for controversy, Chillinit has created an overwhelming buzz that even his harshest critics can't ignore.

The Octagon is just another early chapter in what is set to be one of Australian hip-hop's biggest success stories.

The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley

Phil Jamieson

October 11th 2020

With Supports Dana Gehrman

As the voice and face of Grinspoon, Phil Jamieson fronted one of the most popular Australian bands of the last two decades. An accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist, Jamieson’s generation-defining lyrics and vocal melodies first became etched into rock fans’ DNA in 1995, when the Lismore-born quartet rode a new wave of alternative music to become the first act Unearthed by national youth radio station triple j with its debut single ‘Sickfest’.

So began a love affair that maintained its heat and passion for over one thousand live shows, six consecutive Top 10 debuts and multi-platinum album sales. That initial romance with triple j’s listeners blossomed into full-bloom infatuation: an incredible 17 Grinspoon songs have polled in Hottest 100 countdowns over the years, led by the much-loved ‘Chemical Heart’ (#2 in 2002; #63 in 2013’s Hottest 100 of All Time).

With the release of their seventh album Black Rabbits came the news in late 2013 that Grinspoon were entering hibernation. That was until the massive Guide To Better Living 20th anniversary tour, which took place in 2017. Fresh of their 31-date tour, the band wrapped up the year at NightQuarter with a Best Night Ever! New Year’s Eve bash.

Since then Jamieson’s writing and vocal talents have been put to good use in a solo career which has seen the singer sell out rooms all across the country.

Outside of studios and music venues, Jamieson co-founded the Rock N Ride tour for headspace, the National Youth and Mental Health Foundation, in 2013. The initiative is aimed at engaging local communities to raise awareness about mental health issues faced by young people. This passion project has allowed Jamieson to draw on an extensive network of musicians, friends and media personalities who have ridden over 5000km together while visiting dozens of headspace centres along the way.

Over the past year Jamieson has starred as St Jimmy in the Australian premiere of the award-winning Broadway musical ‘American Idiot’. With over 80 shows under his belt and numerous sold out shows, Jamieson charmed critics and audiences alike with his performances.

The Triffid

GORDI – OUR TWO SKINS – INTIMATE ALBUM LAUNCH

October 15th 2020

Following her critically acclaimed second album Our Two Skins and her debut Sydney Opera House performance, Gordi is proud to announce a series of intimate, stripped back shows along the east coast. Recorded with Bon Iver’s production team on her farm in Canowindra in rural NSW, the album is an exploration of identity, community and isolation. The impeccable ten track record was named triple j’s feature album, praised by Pitchfork and garnered attention across Europe and America.

Don’t miss this chance to see Gordi in intimate stripped back mode before supporting Bon Iver on their national arena tour in Australia next year.

The Triffid

Tex Dubbo

October 16th 2020

Troy Cassar-Daley uncovers his alter ego Tex Dubbo and pays homage to the music that shaped his life and career. Classic Old School Country Music that will have you dancing or crying in your beer!!… so let’s get swinging together! Bring out your hats, boots and western shirts to match up with these classic songs!!

Tickets on sale now.. limited number so get in quick!

The Triffid

Leanne Tennant

October 17th 2020

Leanne Tennant, the 2018 Carol Lloyd Award recipient, and 3x time QLD Music Winner, is set to launch her third album ‘Happiness is…..’

After 2 years in the making, Tennant is finally ready to reveal the album in a series of special shows, and Tivoli music lovers, you’re invited to the party.

New single, Bring It All Back received this years Queensland Music Award for Best Regional, which follows a huge year for the single also being added to all British Airways in-flight entertainment.

New singles Till The Sun Dies, Everspin, Bring It All Back, and Cherry Cola are currently receiving heavy support across BBC Radio (UK), KCRW (USA), 4 Star Reviews across Triple J, and all tracks are currently receiving full rotation at Double J, RAGE, including 'Wild One' pick, #1 on Amazing Radio Charlie Ashcroft (UK), and featured in premieres across New York, France, Germany and London.

‘Happiness is…..’ follows on from records ‘Red Wine, Late Nights’ (2016) and debut album ‘Pull Up Your Britches’ (2015). Join Leanne Tennant for a special evening with support from outstanding Experimental Rock/Electronic act, ‘Machine Age’.

The Tivoli

International Pediatric Sleep Association Congress and Sleep DownUnder

October 20th - 24th 2020

The organising committee invite you to Brisbane next October, where the International Surgical Sleep Society Meeting and the International Paediatric Sleep Association's Annual Congress will run alongside Sleep DownUnder 2020 from 18-24 October 2020 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Bank

Big Sound 2020

October 21st - 22nd 2020

BIGSOUND is pleased to announce that it will proceed in 2020 with a revised program of conference, live music and parties, ensuring that its long-standing role of providing forward-thinking, listening, learning, discovering and most importantly industry connection for the music community, is not lost due to COVID-19.

Fortitude Valley, Various

ACHPER QLD Women in Sport Breakfast

October 21st 2020

As the peak body for the Health and Physical Education profession in Queensland, ACHPER QLD will advocate for active and healthy lifestyles across Queensland educational communities; and deliver professional development programs and services in the areas of Health & Physical Education.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Ivan Aristeguieta

October 21st 2020

Everyone’s favourite Venezuelan is back with a sweet and juithy new show. Ivan Aristeguieta is one happy immigrant and he’s squeezing all of the privileges that the First-World can give him.

The Tivoli

Eddy Current Suppression Ring

October 22nd 2020

The Triffid

Nitro World Games

October 23-24th 2020

Suncorp Stadium

Rosie Waterland

October 24th 2020

Born while her parents were on the run from drug dealers, Rosie Waterland spent her entire childhood shapeshifting and adjusting and course-correcting based on whatever scenario she found herself in. Mum’s a sex worker? Adjust. In foster care? Shape-shift. Dad collapses drunk in the middle of a busy road? Course correct, figure it out. When your world keeps changing, you kind of have no choice but to keep changing with it.

A household name since her hilarious Bachelor recaps became essential pop culture reading, award-winning podcaster, author & comedian Rosie has sold out theatres and enraptured audiences across the country with her trademark frank, funny honesty on topics from awkward sex to body image and mental health.

Don’t miss the brand new show from one of Australia’s most prolific, honest, endearingly funny talents.

The Tivoli

Women's Big Bash League 2020

October 26th 2020

Strikers V Hurricanes - 10.40am

Heat V Scorchers - 14.10 pm

Alan Border Field

Women's Big Bash League 2020

October 27th 2020

Scorchers V Strikers - 10.40 am

Heat V Hurricanes - 14.10 pm

Allan Border Field

Furnace And The Fundamentals

October 29th 2020

The band described as ‘humanity’s most exhilarating dance party’ are taking their incredible party-starting energy around Australia in 2020, visiting Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne during February, March & April.

The Triffid

Dom Dolla

October 29th 2020

The Fortitude Music Hall

Joel Creasy

November 7th 2020

Joel Creasey, Australia’s Crown Prince of Comedy, returns for another season of sauce and sass with his latest stand up show ‘Messy Bitch’.

You’ll know Joel from his sashaying down a red carpet wearing something extravagant with several champagnes under his belt or from his numerous television appearances; ‘Eurovision’, ‘Mardi Gras’, ‘Take Me Out’ or ‘Show Me the Movie’. Perhaps you saw his global Netflix special or read his autobiography ‘Thirsty’?

However, live on stage is where you get to meet the real Joel. The unfiltered and unscripted Joel who’ll regale you with tales from his life in and out of the spotlight. It will get messy ‘cos, like us all, he really is a Messy Bitch.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Magic Beach

November 7th - 8th 2020

Alison Lester AM's classic book comes to life on stage in a wonderful world of text, song, light, shadow and movement for children aged 3-8 and their adults.

From the team behind The Gruffalo and The Treehouses series, this new Australian adaptation from multi-award winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is a celebration of the power of the imagination and the differences that make every child special.

Brisbane Powerhouse

City And Colour

November 9th 2020

The Fortitude Music Hall

Bon But Not Forgotten

November 14th 2020

It will definitely be a High Voltage event when Silverback Touring bring you BON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, the ultimate AC/DC Tribute Act as they head out on a Nation-Wide run of shows this October and November.

BON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN assembles some of the world’s greatest rockers to perform the iconic hits and to pay tribute to the legend behind one of the world’s greatest bands, AC/DC and their iconic singer Bon Scott.

This is a super-charged high energy electric band that has featured some iconic musicians from around the world, including artists from: AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Ugly Kid Joe, The Poor, The Choirboys, Jimmy Barnes band, The Angels, The Screaming Jets, Baby Animals, Rose Tattoo & many more!

This show is one of closest sounds you will get to vintage AC/DC, in the world today and is performed by some of the best musicians we have to offer. Silverback Touring are out to re-ignite the live scene and there are plenty of people lining up to take the Highway To Hell. let The All-Star line-up will feature past and current members of Rose Tattoo, The Angels, The Poor, Wolfmother and more… Let There Be Rock!

The Triffid

Butterfingers - Album Tour

November 20th 2020

Australias favourite musical misfits and auteurs of Aussie hip hop, Butterfingers are back, breaking hearts and bones (mostly their own) with a killer new single, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum), out January 30.  Confident and with more ecstatic energy and sharp lyrical wit than ever before, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum) is classic Butterfingers, and is accompanied by a glorious video filmed by the band themselves.  After a fourteen-year long album release cycle, this hectic new track is the first taste of a brand new Butterfingers album, Bad News, set for release on March 30.

The Triffid

Augie March

November 21st 2020

Released in October 2000, ‘Sunset Studies’ was the first long player from Augie March. After two EP’s and several years intensive gigging around Australia, the band had built a burgeoning audience primed for a debut album that would earn a respect as one of the most expansive, ambitious and literate Australian musical releases of all time.

Against prevailing trends, the album (at 74 minutes long) covered ground more likely to be trod by poets, psychoanalysts, historians and cultural theorists than by an eager young bunch of suburban kitchenhands hailing from Shepparton and Coburg. Musically the album moves seamlessly from sophisticated to naive, from joyful to desolate, from intense guitar rock to stark ambient sound to traditional folk balladry, as band members threw themselves into each unexpected occasion and unfamiliar role with the abandon that only comes with youth and the sense that they might never get another chance like this, but with nothing to lose all the same. Recording was conducted everywhere from plush studios to bedrooms and cupboards in various insalubrious locales.

The album went gold, it remains a favourite of an unusually diverse population across the planet, and is regularly named by prominent artists today as enormously influential. Songs such as Asleep In Perfection, There Is No Such Place, The Hole In Your Roof and Here Comes The Night have all become cult anthems. Sunset Studies was launched at a legendary show in Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre; since that time Augie March have released five more acclaimed albums (with the promise of more to come!) and garnered a reputation as one of Australia’s most unique and engaging live acts.

The Triffid

Boy & Bear

November 26th 2020

After the most tumultuous period of their lives both personally and professionally, Boy & Bear are back with another national tour.

The band’s position in the music industry was firmly cemented in 2011 after their debut album Moonfire reached platinum, won Boy & Bear five ARIA awards and saw three songs make it to triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2011.

Two years later came the release of their highly anticipated sophomore album Harlequin Dream, which debuted at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, spent five consecutive weeks in the top 10 and has since gone Platinum. In October 2015 Boy & Bear put out Limit Of Love, debuting at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, making it their second consecutive number one debut.

Following the release of their newest album Suck on Light, the band embarked on a massive North American tour, playing packed theatres across the US and Canada.

Having now returned home, the boys are excited to share their new album with audiences across Australia in 2020.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Eilen Jewell

November 26th 2020

Due to COVID-19, please contact The TIV Team to reconfirm show dates

The Tivoli

Women's Big Bash League

November 27th November

Heat V Renegades - 14.10pm

Alan Border Field

Spring Loaded

November 28th 2020

Although they’ve had to shuffle things around, Spring Loaded Festival could not pass up the opportunity to offer us a throwback to the days of iconic Aussie festivals like Big Day Out and Homebake.  while the new date for their Sandstone Point Hotel, Bribie Island Queensland show – originally set for Saturday 20 June – will now take place on Saturday 28 November. One other change to the festival is the lineup. While all original bands have been locked in, a scheduling conflict means You Am I have been replaced by Jebediah.

Sandstone Point, Bribie Island

22nd Australasian fluid mechanics conference

December 6-10 2020

The Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC) is held every two years with the support of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (AFMS). The objectives of the conference are to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, students, and educators to discuss Fluid Mechanics’ research, development, and innovation. The conference enables participants to present and discuss the latest trends and findings and to learn about best practice in their particular field(s) of interest. The conference has a long history dating back to 1962 when the inaugural conference was held in Western Australia.

A dynamic group of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ) academics have prepared a successful bid submission to the AFMS to host the 22nd AFMC in Brisbane. The AFMC was last held in Brisbane in 1980 and in Queensland in 2007 (Gold Coast). Brisbane would expect to attract 350-450 participants from all over the world to the conference in 2020. The four-day conference will be a showcase of the research strengths and expertise of Brisbane and South-East Queensland professionals in the Fluid Mechanics field. The technical program will encompass several keynote lectures by leading experts, including the George Bachelor lecture, named after the Australian researcher. Three days of technical presentations and plenary lectures will be held on the QUT Gardens Point Campus in Brisbane CBD and will be complemented by a full day at the UQ St Lucia Campus where keynotes, technical sessions and research laboratory tours will occur before the conference banquet in UQ’s Great Court.

The 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference will provide a strong technical and networking opportunity for government, research, and industry. Highlights of the 22nd AFMC will include:

• A strong commitment to promoting Fluid Mechanics in the broader community;
• Support for undergraduate student participation, in the form of two fee-waiver scholarships; and
• Promotion of gender balance in Fluid Mechanics.

We are confident that the 2020 conference will be the best ever Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference.

Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point Campus

Fontaines D.C

December 10th 2020

Fontaines D.C. met as a quintet in Dublin, influenced and driven in equal measure by the rich history of their hometown’s counter-culture, their response has been to make concise and immediately authentic indie-punk that has done anything but fall on deaf ears. They have toured sold-out shows across Ireland, the UK and Europe, and will embark on a full world tour throughout 2019.

The Triffid

The National (USA)

December 12th - 13th 2020

Handsome Tours is thrilled to announce that The National will return to Australia in March and April 2020. The visit will see the band perform at stunning venues across the country, including three intimate nights in Melbourne’s iconic Palais Theatre, two nights at ICC Sydney Theatre, a performance at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall and an evening under the stars at Fremantle Arts Centre. They will be supported on all dates by Phoebe Bridgers.
The tour will celebrate the release of The National’s eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find – out now via Remote Control Records / 4AD. Formed in 1999, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band consists of vocalist Matt Berninger plus two pairs of brothers: Aaron Dessner (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott Devendorf (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums).

The band’s most recent release I Am Easy To Find was a collaborative project with director Mike Mills. The results are I Am Easy To Find, a 24-minute film by Mills starring Alicia Vikander, and I Am Easy To Find, a 68-minute album by The National. The former is not the video for the latter; the latter is not the soundtrack to the former. The movie was composed like a piece of music; the music was assembled like a film, by a film director. The frontman and natural focal point were deliberately and dramatically side staged in favour of a variety of female voices, nearly all of whom have long been in the group’s orbit. It is unlike anything either artist has ever attempted and also totally in line with how they’ve created for much of their careers. The two projects are, as Mills calls them, “Playfully hostile siblings that love to steal from each other”—they share music and words and DNA and impulses and a vision about what it means to be human in 2019, but don’t necessarily need one another. I Am Easy To Find was produced by Mike Mills and The National at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY.

The National’s triumphant previous visit to Australia in 2018 included sold-out performances at Sydney Opera House Forecourt, Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Brisbane’s Riverstage. For their upcoming tour, the band will nestle into their most intimate Australian venues in a decade, delivering fans the raw intensity and emotion of their live show, up-close-and-personal like never before. Be quick – tickets will not last!

Joining The National on all dates will be special guest Phoebe Bridgers. Hailing from Los Angeles, Bridgers released her debut album Stranger In The Alps in 2017 to international acclaim, with haunting, introspective songs that garnered widespread comparisons to legendary songwriters like Elliott Smith and Joni Mitchell.

Fortitude Music Hall, Fortitude Valley

The Crystal Method

December 12th 2020

Electronic Dance Music pioneers, THE CRYSTAL METHOD (USA) return to Australia for the first time since the Big Day Out in 2007! Along with The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy, THE CRYSTAL METHOD are credited with being pioneers of the Big Beat genre and Electronica movement. Together they took electronic music out of warehouses and onto some of the biggest festival fields in the world! Don’t miss THE CRYSTAL METHOD bringing the energy and excitement with a show stacked with bangers – Name of the Game, Busy Child, Trip Like I Do, Born Too Slow, Keep Hope Alive plus heaps more!

The Triffid

Tommy Little

December 16th - 17th 2020

Come and hear what Tommy’s been up to since you last saw him.

You can be sure it will be foolish, funny as hell, and probably his own fault.

As seen on The Project.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Thy Art is Murder - Human Target Tour

December 17th 2020

Australia’s masters of brutality Thy Art Is Murder have announced the Human Target Australian Tour, set to cause carnage across the country in December 2020. Their first headline run since the release of their earth-scorching fifth record of the same name, The Human Target Tour will be a night to remember as Thy Art Is Murder unveil their most ambitious Australian production to date with help from supports Dying Fetus, Fit For An Autopsy, Enterprise Earth and Aversions Crown.

Human Target is a bleak experience where Thy Art Is Murder exorcise the pangs of mortality and the pains of socio-political trauma to a soundtrack of authentic crushing death metal with blackened fury and flashes of knuckle-dragging stomp. In its crosshairs are a buffet of human atrocities from privatised prisons enforcing police states where non-violent offenders languish for decades to human organ harvesting for the wealthy. They also examine the false gods of social media while pharmaceuticals numb the minds of the dissociated.

We’re also confronted with the current state of politics riddled with hyperactive virtue signalling, extremism and disenfranchisement, And, while hyperbolic leaders promise to make everything “great” again, our planet lurches toward an inevitable climate disaster that will extinguish humanity. Grim.

Since the release of Human Target, Thy Art Is Murder have been on tour non-stop, leaving a trail of sold out shows in their wake. Between bouts of crisscrossing the Northern Hemisphere, the band briefly returned home for a stint on Good Things festival before heading back to Europe.

The Human Target Australian tour promises to be the biggest and most insane live show Thy Art Is Murder has ever done on home soil. If you’ve seen the photos from their recent European tour, you know this tour is going to be EPIC.

Thy Art Is Murder’s last Australian tour sold out over a month in advance (!) so don’t sleep tickets or you’ll be sorry.

The Triffid

Thelma Plum

December 19th 2020

Thelma Plum has had a massive twelve months. The young Gamilaraay singer songwriter has released her debut album ‘Better in Blak’ to much acclaim, placing second in the triple j album of the year listeners poll and garnering nominations for the Australian Music Prize Album of the Year, six ARIA’s nominations, APRA Song of the Year and, with three songs in the Hottest 100 including the album’s title track at #9, she became the highest fan voted indigenous artist in the history of the poll. Thirty million streams, a national sold out tour and a debut London show that sold out two months in advance – it was, truly, a monumental twelve months.

The Fortitude Music Hall

pacific dawn cruise departure

December 26th 2020

P&O Cruise

Portside Cruise Terminal, Hamilton

Biffy Clyro

January 14th 2021

Known for their anthemic alt-rock, Scotland's Biffy Clyro are a dynamic power trio marked by the throaty lead-vocal brogue of singer/guitarist Simon Neil.

Emerging in the early 2000s, Biffy Clyro drew loyal fans with their grunge, hardcore, and prog-rock-influenced sound that found them combining hooky choruses with unusual song forms and galloping rhythmic meters. While their early albums helped build their fan base in Britain, they broke through to an international audience with 2009's Only Revolutions, which peaked at number three on the U.K. album charts and earned a Mercury Prize nomination. The band continued to experiment, issuing the double-disc Opposites in 2013, and the soundtrack album Balance, Not Symmetry in 2019.

In Australia, Biffy Clyro’s most recent album – Ellipsis – debuted at #15 on the ARIA chart, their highest to date, and they have just announced they will be releasing their new album ‘A Celebration Of Endings’ on May 15.

The Tivoli

Hot Dub Time Machine

January 15th 2021

The key success of Hot Dub’s show is hinged on its widespread appeal – Hot Dub showcases songs from every decade and genre of music – 60s rock, 70s disco, 80s cheese, 90s house, noughties electro, 2017’s radio hits – and winds and weaves it into one expansive, electrifying, music history lesson. Each song is played in chronological order – mixed live on turntables – and complemented with archival concert footage / music videos on massive screens (narrated by a virtual spaceship air hostess), led by Hot Dub’s own rapturous MCing and hugely animated antics.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Mallrat

January 22nd & 23rd 2021

Her latest single ‘Charlie’ – written about her beloved family dog – is still getting us in the feels, and now Mallrat will take the single, alongside the rest of the glittery tracks from her recent EP Driving Music, on the road in January 2021. First locked in for May and June, this tour will have Mallrat bringing her magic to some of Australia’s favourite stages.

https://youtu.be/9C1flskssaQ

The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley

Karnivool

March 18th 2021

Karnivool are  thrilled to announce The Decade of Sound Awake tour where, exclusively for Australia, they will play the whole album in its entirety. Marking some of the bands’ biggest Aussie venues to date, the tour takes in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Brisbane Cycling Festival

March 24th - April 12th 2021

GEAR UP FOR 2021!

Get ready for the ride of your life when the Brisbane Cycling Festival rolls into the city for 2021!

The festival will get you psyched up with professional, amateur and mass participation events at the celebrated Anna Meares Velodrome and other venues around Brisbane in 2021.

Brisbane Show Grounds

Bon Iver

April 1st 2021

Don’t panic, the incredible Bon Iver is still bringing his music to Australian stages, it’s just a little later than he’d first planned. Originally locked in for May and June this year, the shows were set to make his first full tour Down Under in nine years. Bon Iver’s last extensive tour of Australia was back in 2012, though the band performed in Sydney for Vivid LIVE in 2016. Next year’s shows come off the back of the band’s sensational fourth album i,i (pronounced eye-comma-eye) which was released in August 2019.

Riverstage, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane CBD

Hockey Dad

April 10th 2021

Off the back of releasing their brand new single “Itch” and album news for Brain Candy, the duo today announce their own headline tour, supported by triple j. Joining them will be Last Dinosaurs, Vundabar (USA) and Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers. They’ll be kicking off the tour in Adelaide, then heading over to Fremantle, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. This tour will follow a mammoth run across the globe from the UK, Europe and the USA officially making this Hockey Dad’s biggest touring year ever!

Hockey Dad’s new single ‘Itch’, is out now, an epic fuzzed ballad, which started off as a delicate, droned out kind of feel. It grew in the studio as the band added more layers and has become a giant of a song that slowly builds to a massive finish with one of Zach Stephenson’s biggest vocals to date.

The Fortitude Music hall

Ben Elton Live 2021

April 13th - 14th 2021

Ben Elton exploded onto the comedy scene more than 30 years ago, hosting Channel 4’s groundbreaking Saturday Live. Since then Elton has achieved huge success as a stand-up comic, author, playwright, actor and director. He’s written television shows such as The Young Ones, Blackadder 2, Blackadder The Third, Blackadder Goes Forth, The Thin Blue Line, the famous ‘exam’ episode of Mr Bean and many more, as well writing and directing two feature films: 2000’s Maybe Baby and 2017’s Australian-made Three Summers. Last year he wrote Kenneth Branagh’s critically acclaimed biopic of William Shakespeare All Is True which starred Judi Dench and Ian McKellen. On 7 February 2020 the live theatre production of his hit BBC TV series Upstart Crow opens on at The Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Pure 2020 - Rescheduled

April 23rd 2021

Australia’s most loved techno event, returns for its fifth year to announce a HUGE techno fuelled lineup. After a record breaking 2019 with 20,000 revellers, PURE is back showcasing future techno sounds in an audio and visual sensory showdown.

Celebrating techno and house music, PURE has quickly established itself as a must attend event for dance music fans across Australia and New Zealand, thanks to its reputation as an event where the audience can make a special connection with the DJs.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Brisbane Truck Show 2021

May 16th 2021

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

Lindsey Stirling

May 21st 2021

She’s back! After three years, electronic violinist, dancer and composer, Lindsey Stirling, will make her big return to Australia for four very special shows in support of her latest fifth studio album, Artemis.

Lindsey remains fearless enough to always dream big. In years following the release of her 2012 self-titled debut, the electronic music impresario quietly and humbly became one of the 21st century’s most innovative stars by clinging to her groundbreaking vision of cinematic violin-driven electronic music.

After bowing at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Dance/Electronic Album Chart, holding #1 on the Classical Album Chart for 21 consecutive weeks, Lindsey went on to receive a Billboard Music Award for “Top Dance/Electronic Album,”. She has garnered over 11 million subscribers and 2 billion+ views on YouTube and her headline tours have attracted more than half a million people worldwide.

The Fortitude Music Hall

International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress

May 30th - June 3rd 2021

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

Conference Of the international association of colliod and interface scientists (iacis 2021)

June 20th- 24th 2021

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

World Mining Congress

July 20-22 2021

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), the peak body for resources professionals, are excited to bring the World Mining Congress to Brisbane, Australia, 20 - 22 July 2021.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

Lauv - How I'm Feeling World Tour

September 9th 2021

US pop sensation LAUV brings the biggest shows of his career to Australia in September 2021, for his rescheduled ~how i’m feeling~ tour.

Since his debut album ~how i’m feeling~ dropped in early 2020 to critical praise, the multi-platinum artist has gone on to release a four-track EP called Without You, performed his song ‘Modern Loneliness’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, ‘f*ck I’m lonely’ with Anne-Marie on Late Night with Seth Myers and more.

Lauv had this message for his fans, regarding the rescheduled dates —

Australia and New Zealand, see you next year! rescheduled dates for the world tour are below. if u already have tickets, you’re good to hold onto those. excited to come back to see u!

Ticketholders are encouraged to hold onto their tickets; all tickets purchased for the original 2020 dates will be valid for the corresponding rescheduled dates – you do not need to do anything, your existing tickets will be valid for entry on the new dates.

Patrons who are unable to attend the rescheduled shows should contact their authorised point of purchase to request a refund.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Bohemian Rhapsody

September 24th 2021

ADAM THOMPSON PAYS HOMAGE TO QUEEN & FREDDIE MERCURY IN THIS SPECIAL MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY LIVE IN CONCERT’

When it comes to charismatic front men, there are few that embody the power and passion quite like Chocolate Starfish’s Adam Thompson. He owns the stage, channels the music, and has audiences eating out of the palm of his hand. So it is no surprise that when it came to picking his next great project he chose to showcase the music of his hero, Freddie Mercury, and Queen in his ‘Bohemian Rhapsody Concert’.

Featuring hit after hit of Queen’s back catalogue, with a setlist including “Somebody to Love”, “Killer Queen”, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “We Will Rock You”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “I Want to Break Free” and “Under Pressure”, Bohemian Rhapsody Concert will be a spectacular evening from start to finish.

Adam is accompanied by five of Australia’s best musicians – Chocolate Starfish guitarist Zakk Zedras, Ben Grayson on keyboards, Jonathon Zion on bass guitar, with drummer Andy Swann, who was a member of the original “We Will Rock You” band that was hand-picked by Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Together they are a dynamic force, providing audiences with an unforgettable entertainment experience in this larger-than-life celebration.

The Fortitude Music Hall

Zoot

October 8th 2021

ZOOT, one of Australia’s most-loved bands of the late ’60s, early ’70s, is re-forming for four shows only. And the band – featuring Beeb Birtles, Rick Springfield and Rick Brewer– will be joined by their close friend and contemporary Russell Morris.

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GOLD VIP Ticket includes:
Admission to Sound Check
Admission to Q&A Session
Limited edition A3 Thick Card Poster
Official commemorative VIP Laminate
Priority Access to the Venue

PLATINUM VIP M&G Ticket includes:
Meet and Greet with the Artist
Photo with the Artist on the fans own phone or camera
ONE personal item signed by the Artist
Signed Limited edition A3 Thick Card Poster
Admission to Sound Check
Admission to Q&A Session
Official commemorative VIP Laminate

The tour – ZOOT’s first Australian shows in nearly 50 years – is dedicated to the band’s lead singer, Darryl Cotton, who died of liver cancer in 2012.

“This whole tour is about honouring Darryl Cotton and his band ZOOT,” Rick Springfield says. “Darryl also had a band with Russell Morris, Jim Keays and Ronnie Burns for 16 years, so it’s great to have Russell celebrating Darryl by joining ZOOT.”

Russell says the tour will be a “labour of love”.

“I am not trying to be Darryl,” Russell points out. “But as I worked with Darryl for so long, he is a part of me. And I know how much he cared about ZOOT, so I will give it my very best.”

The reunion celebrates the 50thanniversary of ZOOT’s debut album, Just Zoot,and follows the release of the ZOOT anthology, Archaeology.

“Who would have thought we’d still be performing ZOOT songs 50 years after the release of Just Zoot,” smiles Beeb, who started ZOOT in Adelaide with Darryl Cotton. “Nevertheless, here we are with ZOOT in 2020!”

Aside from 2007’s Countdown Spectacular, this will be Rick Springfield’s first Australian appearances since 1971.

Often referred to as “a supergroup in reverse” – after the band broke up in 1971, Beeb Birtles was a founding member of Little River Band, Rick Springfield became a solo star in the US, and Rick Brewer joined The Ferrets – ZOOT were crowned Australia’s Best Group in Go-Set in 1969 and had a string of hits, including ‘One Times, Two Times, Three Times, Four’, ‘Monty and Me’, ‘The Freak’, and their blistering cover of The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’.

The Fortitude Music Hall

World Down Syndrome Conference

August 2022

This international conference brings together people with Down syndrome, family members, researchers and service providers to showcase the latest research and best practice as well as the lived experience of Down syndrome from around the world.

The Congress supports the ongoing agenda of Down Syndrome International: to improve quality of life for people with Down syndrome worldwide and promote their inherent right to be accepted and included as valued and equal members of their communities.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

Total Solar Eclipse

July 13th 2037