Mellen Events

Rudimental – Second Perth Show Just Announced

Melissa — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:56:12 +0000

Future Entertainment and Mellen Events are pleased to announce that Sydney, Perth and Adelaide shows for Rudimental have completely sold out. An additional 2 shows have been added to the tour in Sydney and Perth.

Fans who missed out on tickets in Sydney and Perth will get a second chance to see the band’s highly charged ‘live’ performance of their debut album ‘Home’ that raced into the ARIA charts at number two last month with three top twenty singles – Feel The Love, Not Giving In and Waiting All Night.

Their hit single Feel The Love blazed into the UK charts debuting at #1 on both the single and dance charts after it premiered as the Hottest Record in the World on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1. In Australia, Feel The Love hit #1 on the iTunes singles and the iTunes dance charts, peaked at #3 on the ARIA singles and national airplay charts and is triple platinum!

Follow up singles Not Giving In and Hell Could Freeze have also helped solidify the band at the top of their game, charting top 15 on the ARIA Singles Chart and being crowned as the most played & requested track on Triple J respectively.

Tickets for the second Perth show on sale 9am Friday 21 June 2013.
Don’t miss out……………!

Sarah Blasko Regional Tour

Melissa — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:20:25 +0000

Date	Venue
Friday 9 August 2013	Bunbury Regional Arts Centre, Bunbury
Saturday 10 August 2013	Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton
Monday 12 August 2013	Margaret River Cultural Club, Margaret River
Tuesday 13 August 2013	Albany Entertainment Centre, Albany

Sarah Blasko returns to Australia in July, from Paris where she has been spending some time supporting the release of her album and performing throughout Europe. Accompanied by her long time band, she will undertake an extensive regional Australian tour as well as appearing at Splendour in the Grass.

In anticipation of the tour, and the next part of the journey that is Sarah’s fourth album ‘I Awake’, Blasko also presents the new single ‘All Of Me’ with an accompanying video.

Sarah Blasko – All Of Me from Sarah Blasko on Vimeo.

Working with Wilk, a visual artist Blasko has collaborated with on many occasions and whose work she much admires, the two set out to create something pure but unsettling together, a performance based video that was at once, equally beautiful and strange.

Hopefully more akin to the art house films of Bèla Tarr and Michelangelo Antonioni than to that of a pop video, Wilk says of the process:
‘I took the song literally: lyrically and emotionally. Sarah wanted something intimate, simple. The result is an unconventional single take video. The altered state of Sarah’s appearance and her apparent nudity is in purpose devoid of sexuality, replacing it with honesty, bravery and intimacy.’

Blasko adds:’We wanted to blur the border between the natural and the unnatural. The song itself likens falling in love to the purity of being a newborn but love is also at its best when it comes from a place of understanding and experience as expressed in the opening lines:
“I’m wide-eyed like a new life shaking in the breeze. Enraptured by the world, unsteady on my feet. I fall in to a place that I have only dreamed & I’m the woman that I’ve always longed to be”…’

Her national regional tour goes on sale on Tuesday 11th June.
Sarah Blasko’s ‘All Of Me’ is taken from the album ‘I Awake’, out now through Dew Process / Universal Music Australia.

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“You will find yourself richer for entering this world.” The Courier Mail:
“…a bittersweet symphony… In a word: captivating.” Herald Sun HIT:
“…a defining, unsettling masterpiece” Rolling Stone:
“…an album that confirms further Blasko’s status as a great Australian talent.” The Australian
“…power seems to come from within this truly once-in-a-generation artist… I Awake lures listeners a step further into a brilliant, intense and intimate universe.” The West Australian
“It’s beautiful, strange and as fragile as a nervous breakdown…” Faster Louder:

Introducing Fletcher, who will support Sarah on her tour.

Fletcher on Soundcloud

Fletcher “Open Up’ music clip on Vimeo

Ben Fletcher Webpage

BUNBURY REGIONAL ARTS CENTRE
Doors Open	7:30pm
Fletcher	TBA
Sarah Blasko	TBA

QUEENS PARK THEATRE, GERALDTON
Doors Open	8:00pm
Fletcher	TBA
Sarah Blasko	TBA

MARGARET RIVER CULTURAL CLUB
Doors Open	7:30pm
Fletcher	TBA
Sarah Blasko	TBA

ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
Doors Open	7:40pm
Fletcher	TBA
Sarah Blasko	TBA

Tickets on sale 9am Tuesday 11 June 2013

Bunbury Regional Arts Centre	$59.85*	1300 661 272
Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton	$58.80	(08) 9956 6662
Margaret River Cultural Club	$60.80	(08) 9758 7316
Margaret River Cultural Club via Ticketmaster	$59.45*	136 100
Albany Entertainment Centre via Ticketek	$60.50*	(08) 9844 5005

* plus payment processing fees

Engelbert Humperdinck – Second Brisbane Show Announced

Melissa — Tue, 28 May 2013 04:07:02 +0000

Due to an overwhelming demand, Mellen Events and Bluehawk Presents in association with Dorsey Productions, are thrilled to announce a second Engelbert Humperdinck concert at QPAC Brisbane, on Saturday 6 July.

Tickets for Saturday’s performance are on sale from 9am Monday 27 May through www.qpac.com.au or 136 246.

Limited seats remain for the first concert on Friday 5 July and are available now.

Don’t miss Engelbert Humperdinck, the ultra-smooth King of Romance on The Greatest Hits & More tour, Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July at QPAC.

www.bluehawkpresents.com www.engelbert.com

Red Dirt feat. Jimmy Barnes

Melissa — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:07:29 +0000

EVENT: Red Dirt feat. Jimmy Barnes
DATE: Thursday 19 Sept 2013
RACES: Hannans Handicap – Wednesday 18 Sept 2013 & Kalgoorlie Cup – Saturday 21 Sept 2013
VENUE: Kalgoorlie Boulder Racing Club
FEATURING: Jimmy Barnes plus very Special Guest Mahalia Barnes And The Soul Mates
TICKETS: Available through Ticketmaster – 136 100

Get ready for the biggest concert event ever seen in Kalgoorlie, when Australian music legend JIMMY BARNES brings his incredible catalogue of songs to the annual RED DIRT concert event celebrating the XXXX Gold Kalgoorlie Cup on Sept 21. Come for the rock, stay for the round!

Best known initially as the voice of legendary Australian rock band Cold Chisel, Barnes famously sang with them songs that are part of the fabric of our great land: Khe Sanh, Flame Trees, Cheap Wine, Choirgirl, My Baby, You Got Nothing I Want….the list goes on.

Despite numerous Chisel reunions, since 1983 Jimmy Barnes has primarily been recognised as the internationally acclaimed solo artist he is today. In that time he has become one of Australia’s most successful artists, with more hits in Australia than just about anyone, including: Working Class Man, Good Times, Lay Down Your Guns, When Your Love Is Gone, Let’s Make It Last All Night, When Something Is Wrong With My Baby…..and many more!

The concert is a WA Country Cups initiative and is supported by Eventscorp’s Regional Events Program, which is funded by the State Government’s Royalties for Regions program. The funding has provided enhanced marketing and events management initiatives to create and elevate peripheral activities around regional thoroughbred race meets in Kalgoorlie, Bunbury & Broome over the next 3 years.

All information on WA Country Cups head to: www.wacountrycups.com.au

TICKETS ON SALE TUESDAY JUNE 4^TH AT 9AM

There are a variety of ticketing options available from Ticketmaster to ensure your getaway to the Goldfields runs smoothly:

Red Dirt General Admission Ticket
Red Dirt VIP (not available with race tickets)
Red Dirt GA + Hannans Handicap Ticket Pack
Red Dirt GA + Kalgoorlie Cup Ticket Pack
Red Dirt GA + Hannans Handicap + Kalgoorlie Cup Ticket Pack

Please note: This is an 18+ event.
Photo ID will be required for entry into the venue.
The only forms of ID accepted are: Current Australian Driver’s License, current Passport or WA proof of age card.

JIMMY BARNES.

In the ‘70s and ‘80s Jimmy Barnes was the wildest, loudest and most popular rock & roll star in the country. In the 1990’s Jimmy reached mega-stardom with back to back #1 albums in both soul and rock genres. Then everything went out of control and he came close to losing everything, including his sanity and his life. In the 21^st century, after rehab and open-heart surgery, he has climbed back to the top of the charts and the top of his form.

But let’s look back before we look forward…

In 1978, Cold Chisel was a nasty rock & roll band tearing up the pubs of Sydney and Melbourne. The first single, Khe Sanh was banned from commercial radio.

Within three short years of their first album’s release, Cold Chisel was the most successful band in the land. The second album Breakfast At Sweethearts broke the radio drought. The 1980 album East surpassed all expectations selling a quarter of a million copies straight out of the box and debuting at #1 on the charts. Every ticket on their now-legendary tours was sold out.

In December 1983 Chisel came to an end with the largest concert tour ever undertaken by an Australian band – a record that still stands over twenty years later.

Within a month of Cold Chisel finishing, Jimmy Barnes was on the road with a new band and within 10 months of that, in October 1984 to be specific, Jimmy released his first solo album, Bodyswerve. It entered the charts at #1.

The following year he signed to Geffen Records in the US and cut five new tracks that were added to remixed versions of key Bodyswerve tracks to make the album For The Working Class Man – another #1 debut. Artistic differences ended Jimmy’s relationship with Geffen and he recorded 1987’s Freight Train Heart (another #1 debut) on his own terms. The national tour in support of that album featured a young Perth guitarist Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel) who would soon become Jimmy’s closest musical collaborator.

Jimmy began working with American producer Don Gehman on the album Two Fires. Released in 1990 and yet another #1 album, it was Jimmy’s most sophisticated set yet. His songwriting had matured and he had learned how to control the power in his voice.

In 1991 and on little more than a whim, Jimmy and Don Gehman cut an album of R&B classics over a fairly intense fortnight. The continuing success of Two Fires kept the Soul Deep album in the bottom drawer for almost a year, however when it did hit the stores it was a massive success with sales to this day of close to one million copies.

In October 2005, Jimmy Barnes was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in his own right (Cold Chisel had already been inducted in 1993).

Jimmy Barnes is the master of many things but none better than singing great rock songs, and that is exactly what the Australian rock icon is doing on his 16th solo album, Rage & Ruin.

Coming off the #1 platinum selling 2009 album The Rhythm And The Blues, he once again ripped off the suit to deliver his most powerful rock single in years, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead.

With all 12 songs on the new album co-written by Jimmy, the album release sees a return to career-best form for the legendary Australian rocker. It was recorded early 2010 with a stellar line up of L.A session musicians, and produced by Don Gehman (REM, John Mellencamp).

The new single off the album ‘Largs Pier Hotel’ is a trip down memory lane, of a special Adelaide venue that was part of the early Cold Chisel days.

2011 saw the Cold Chisel boys get back together for the sold out Light The Nitro Tour and Chisel were also busy in the recording studio working on the first album in 14 years. The album No Plans, was released in 2012 and debuted at #2 on the ARIA charts.

His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the legendary Cold Chisel has made Jimmy Barnes one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.

The Red Dirt VIP Function will be open from 5.30pm until 8.30pm.
It includes access to the exclusive VIP area along with premium beer, wine and champagne for the duration of the function. Scrumptious canapés will be served from 6.00pm until 7.30pm.

The VIP does not have a view of the stage however, so once the sun’s gone down say hello to the night, put on your dancing shoes and immerse yourself in the show and get amongst the action.

Sportsnet Holidays is the official travel operator for the 2013 Kalgoorlie-Boulder Race Round.
Contact Sportsnet Holidays for further details on air/land or land only travel packages to Kalgoorlie for ‘The Round’, featuring the Tabtouch.Mobi Hannan’s Handicap and the XXXX Gold Kalgoorlie Cup.

T: 1300 888 858 or +61 3 9482 9411
E: travel@sportsnetholidays.com
www.sportsnetholidays.com

Tickets on sale 9am TUESDAY JUNE 4^TH from Ticketmaster – 136 100

Red Dirt General Admission	$60
Red Dirt VIP*	$180
Red Dirt GA + Hannans Handicap Ticket Pack	$85
Red Dirt GA + Kalgoorlie Cup Ticket Pack	$90
Red Dirt GA + Hannans Handicap + Kalgoorlie Cup Ticket Pack	$110

* VIP tickets not available with race tickets

Gates	5:00pm
Mahalia Barnes And The Soul Mates	6:00pm
JIMMY BARNES	7:30PM

George Benson

Melissa — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:03:43 +0000

GEORGE BENSON

TOUR DETAILS
Wed Aug 21 2013	MELBOURNE Palais Theatre
Sat Aug 24 2013	PERTH Riverside Theatre PCEC

International Grammy legend and ultra-cool groove genius, George Benson, performs two concerts on his Hits & Inspiration Tour at the Palais Theatre, Melbourne on Wednesday 21 August and Riverside Theatre, Perth on Saturday 24 August.

George is a distinctive guitarist with a silky smooth vocal style, melodic Pop, Jazz & R&B repertoire and an impeccable reputation as one of the most engaging and sophisticated entertainers.

Since becoming a global phenomenon in 1976 with Breezin‘ (the first Jazz album to reach #1 on the Pop charts and achieve Platinum status), George has been honoured with ten Grammy Awards and is acknowledged as a Jazz Master (America’s National Endowment for the Arts highest accolade).

Breezin‘ gave George his first of three Grammy Awards in 1976, along with This Masquerade and Theme from Good King Bad. He received his first Vocal Grammy in 1978 for On Broadway and in 1980, triple Grammies for Give Me The Night, Off Broadway and Moody’s Mood. Another followed in 1983 for Being With You and he shared Grammies in 2007 with Al Jarreau for Mornin’ and Jill Scott for God Bless The Child.

He has produced over forty albums and songs from this year’s June release, Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole, are included in the set list of timeless signature tunes from his immense catalogue of hits - Breezin’, This Masquerade, On Broadway, The Ghetto, Family Reunion, The Greatest Love of All, Give Me The Night, Turn Your Love Around, Feel Like Makin’ Love, In Your Eyes, Shiver, Lady Love Me (One More Time), We’re In This Love Together, Living in High Definition and so much more.

George made his first public appearances at the age of eight, playing ukelele in nightclubs and switched to guitar as a teenager. By the time he was twenty-one, he was already established as a respected Jazz guitarist and in fine company, with mentors Jack McDuff, Herbie Hancock and Wes Montgomery.

An adventurous musician with an appreciation for dance floor rhythms as well as intellectual Jazz, George launched his solo career and released his debut album in 1964, The New Boss Guitar, filled with juicy, blues solos, funk and swing.

In the late sixties, Miles Davis credited George as the “Baddest guitar player alive” and forty years on, George is an icon of the industry with sensational concert reviews as testimony to his passion for performance.

Don’t miss this opportunity in Melbourne and Perth for a beautifully breezy, soulful and romantic evening with the sublime George Benson and his band on the Hits & Inspiration Tour.

Tickets are on sale Friday 24 May in Melbourne from www.ticketmaster.com.au on 136 100 and in Perth from www.ticketek.com.au on 132 849.

Tickets: ON SALE FRIDAY 24 MAY

MELBOURNE
Palais Theatre
136 100
www.ticketmaster.com.au

PERTH
Riverside Theatre PCEC
132 849
www.ticketek.com.au