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21.05.12 PENNYWISE ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
So-Cal punk rock icons Pennywise have announced plans to tour Australia this August.
11.05.12 RETURN OF THE STEEL PANTHER!
Drawing a massive midday crowd out to Soundwave this year (and apparently blowing Alter Bridge off the stage at Sidewaves interstate), LA’s nutty hair metal lads Steel Panther are getting their Balls Out during a new tour announced for October.
23.04.12 ALRIGHT! EAST 17 AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Alright, alright, everything's gonna be alright because British 90s outfit and oversized beanie originators East 17 are coming to Australia for a national tour.
10.04.12 LADYHAWKE SWOOPING BACK IN
Ladyhawke has confirmed that she will be making a long-awaited return to venues across Australia this July to perform songs from her forthcoming second album Anxiety.
05.04.12 GRAVEYARD TRAIN AT THE GOV
Melbourne’s best foot stomping, chain bashing, hell raising folk/blues outfit Graveyard Train will be returning to Adelaide following their packed out audience at Barrio this May for a performance at The Gov.
30.03.12 MMM POP! HANSON TO TOUR!
Last seen rocking out in Katy Perry’s video for Last Friday Night (TGIF), the clean-cut brothers Hanson, who set hearts racing in the ‘90s, are heading to Australia.
27.03.12 HOOKY POSTPONES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Outspoken former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook, who was scheduled to come to Adelaide next month with his new band The Light, has postponed his upcoming April tour due to “production circumstances which were beyond control.
22.03.12 KARNIVOOL ‘MELODIAS FRESCAS’ TOUR
No, it’s not some refreshing Mexican drink, but rather the name of the forthcoming tour from 10-legged Perth rock band Karnivool.
06.03.12 MATT CORBY ANNOUNCES ‘THE WINTER’ TOUR
Call your name out to your brother, because Matt Corby’s coming to town.
09.01.12 LIVE: CRYSTAL CASTLES
At what live show do you get streams of Jack Daniels whiskey spat onto you by the lead singer? Crystal Castles of course, which our writer Miranda Freeman discovered last week during their set at HQ.
16.12.11 SUBLIME WITH ROME TO HIT ADELAIDE
Next summer the surviving members of legendary ska-punk band Sublime, drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson, will be returning to Australia for a national tour with new frontman Rome under the new name Sublime with Rome.
12.12.11 GRINDERMAN CALL IT QUITS AT MEREDITH
Just days after wrapping up their national tour with a performance at HQ in Adelaide, Nick Cave’s ‘side project’ Grinderman have announced on-stage at Meredith Music Festival that they are calling it quits after five years and two studio albums.
14.11.11 HOOKY TO BRING JOY DIVISION CLOSER TO ADELAIDE
While the rest of Joy Division’s living members are busy reforming their other band New Order, ousted bass player Peter Hook will continue to relive the magic of Joy Division without his New Order and Joy Division band mates.
10.11.11 DEATH CAB FOR HQ-TIE IN 2012
Now that he’s no longer having to work on saving his defunct marriage to the delicious Zooey Deschanel, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard will be bringing his band back to Australia in February next year for a national tour.
04.11.11 FAMILY STONE & HYPNOTIC BRASS SHIFT TO ROCKET
The funk and soul double-header show of the year is moving to Rocket Bar.
22.09.11 REM SPLIT AFTER 30 YEARS
It’s the end of REM as we know it and they feel fine, as the alternative champions split amicably after 31 years, 15 albums and sales of more than 30 million records.
23.02.11 Massive Christchurch fundraiser at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
It hasn't taken long for the Fringe fraternity to put their hearts and minds together for the people of Christchurch, who weredevastated yesterday when a 6.
19.01.11 GARY NUMAN. HQ. MON MAY 16
Dark electro pop innovator and The Mighty Boosh’s Vince Noir’s favourite singer, Gary Numan, is heading to Adelaide to play his classic album The Pleasure Principle, which included Numan standards Cars, Metal and Complex.
08.12.10 Live: Reel Big Fish/The Aquabats
HQ - Sun Dec 5 It was a pop punk double-header as pranksters Reel Big Fish and pseudo superheroes The Aquabats smashed it up at HQ.
19.11.10 Live: Manic Street Preachers
Thu Nov 18 It's been a looooooong time between drinks for Manic Street Preachers.
13.11.09 Ladyhawke at HQ
The last time Ladyhawke ventured to Adelaide she played to a packed house at Rocket Bar, but what a difference 11 months makes - it was a near-capacity HQ that greeted the Kiwi turned Australian turned UK cool pop sensation.
03.12.09 Paul Kelly
PK put in a fine performance at HQ, playing basically a greatest hits set. Supported by Vorn Doolette.
