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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Bamboos Announce September 2025 25th Anniversary Shows
The Bamboos have announced a trio of east-coast shows for September 2025. The special shows will serve as a celebration of the Melbourne funk collective's 25 years together, having originally formed back in 2000. To coincide with the anniversary, the band are also set to release their first-ever greatest-hits compilation – entitled, fittingly, The Bamboos Best – in July 2025. The full list of tour dates, as well as pre-sale and ticketing information, can be found below. 'It's been a wild ride, and we're not letting up,' said the band in a statement shared to their social media accounts. 'Playing live for you has always been at the beating heart of this band, and what we love to do most. We'll be bringing you an extra-special curated set featuring some surprise deep cuts, Bamboos family special guests and the favourite songs that have brought us all together over the last quarter of a century of live shows. Can't wait to make some serious noise with you.' The Bamboos were initially formed in Melbourne at the turn of the century by guitarist and bandleader Lance Ferguson. After playing around the city as an instrumental band, often doing covers, they began to take proper formation in 2006 with the addition of Kylie Auldist as lead vocalist and the release of their debut studio album, Step It Up. The band have released ten studio albums in total, including 2015's The Rules Of Attraction with You Am I frontman Tim Rogers. Across their 25-year career, The Bamboos have been nominated for six ARIA Awards and been shortlisted twice in the Song Of The Year category at the APRA Awards. In addition to Rogers (who launched The Ferguson Rogers Process with Ferguson last year), the group's extensive list of collaborators include Meg Washington, Dan Sultan, Daniel Merriweather, Urthboy and Aloe Blacc. The Bamboos Best is set for release on Friday, July 25th via Impressed Recordings. The compilation can be pre-ordered on both compact disc and limited-edition gold marble vinyl by clicking here. Thursday, September 11th – City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Saturday, September 13th – Peggs Park, Brisbane QLD Saturday, September 20th – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne VIC Tickets to Sydney and Melbourne are on sale now via Brisbane is free entry. Love Letter To A Record: The Bamboos On The Meters' 1969 Self-Titled Debut Love Letter To A Record: The Bamboos' Lance Ferguson On 'Donny Hathaway Live' You Am I Announce 21-Date 'Hi-Fi Way' Anniversary Tour The post The Bamboos Announce September 2025 25th Anniversary Shows appeared first on Music Feeds.
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
An Englishman in Newport – Sting wows Isle of Wight Festival
Former The Police frontman Sting has wowed the crowds at the Isle of Wight Festival with a set of greatest hits. Wearing a white T-shirt and tight black trousers, the 73-year-old raced straight into fan favourite Message In A Bottle which got the crowd singing along. Half way through his one-and-a-half-hour slot, Sting said to the Newport audience: 'We are delighted to be back at the Isle of Wight festival, it's a historic festival. 'Thank you for inviting us.' After bounding through An Englishman in New York, Walking On The Moon and Every Breath You Take, the band went off before returning for an encore of Roxanne which the crowds enthusiastically sang along to. Sting then finished with Fragile, the only acoustic song in the set. Other bands taking to the Main Stage on Friday included Lottery Winners, Amy Macdonald, The Corrs and Faithless ending the night while Clean Bandit headlined the Big Top. Some 55,000 partygoers have crossed the Solent to reach Seaclose Park in Newport for the four-day event also being headlined by Stereophonics and Justin Timberlake. John Giddings, who has run the festival since re-launching it in 2002 following the legendary events which ran from 1968 to 1970, has said he goes with 'gut feeling' when choosing the acts. The 72-year-old told the PA news agency: 'You want to book acts that have a catalogue that's going to entertain an audience for an hour, hour and a half, and, secondly, someone who's capable of performing to an audience of 50,000 people in a field, because they need to be able to project to entertain.' Other acts performing during the weekend include The Script, Jess Glynne, Supergrass, Example, Busted and Texas.
Telegraph
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Lionel Richie, O2 Arena: a glorified karaoke show, and you'd be mad not to sing along
'I am not the show,' Lionel Richie declared to the O2 Arena. 'The show is the audience.' That might have sounded a tad rich coming from a Grammy-winning R&B hitmaker in a fancy jacket on a gloss-black stage, accompanied by an even glossier grand piano and regular bouts of dry ice. But in a way, he was right. A Lionel Richie show isn't just a chance to salute the legacy of a household name. It's also an enjoyably glorified karaoke night, and from the first song 'Hello' – the obvious opener, after the affable balladeer had risen majestically from beneath the thrust stage – the crowd were in fine singing fettle. 'When you come to my show, the last person you'll hear singing is me,' he later jested. Particularly so when that show is part of a greatest hits tour, as this was. An opening montage charted the career of the Alabamian tennis scholarship kid who joined a college R&B band eventually called the Commodores, made a few multi-platinum hits with them, then even more as a solo artist. His music has had half a century to marinate in people's lives, becoming part of culture's common parlance. It would almost be insulting not to sing along. His own voice sometimes lost out not only to the audience but to his band, who beefed up the songs and moves, often flanking him like unconventional bodyguards. Despite the occasional fluffed line, though – unlike fellow 75-year-old Bruce Springsteen, Richie doesn't rely on an autocue – for almost two age-defying hours he breezed through his discography: immortal songs built on the sturdy foundations of Motown. There was the familiar solace of Easy and Say You, Say Me, the exquisite country undercurrents of Sail On, as well as a slightly less gratifying medley of Commodores' party funk tracks including Sweet Love and Lady. Richie is an old-school showman who knows that audience interaction is as important as the music for making an arena feel intimate. He cracked jokes, grumbled about the weather, and broadcasted someone's video call to their mother on the big screen – all part of the shtick, but charming nonetheless. 'When you see me jumping and running, sliding, running up stairs, running down stairs, I want you all to know one thing: I'm in pain,' he quipped. A greatest hits show can seem as though it's operating on autopilot – especially when your hits include Dancing On The Ceiling, We Are The World (written, famously, with Michael Jackson), and All Night Long – but there was nothing impersonal about these songs, nor their singer: the night was a warm celebration of music that has meant so much to so many over the last fifty years.
