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The Barbarion stage show combines historically inaccurate, sexually ambiguous and highly flammable costumes with hastily assembled pyrotechnics in confined spaces along with 'carefully' choreographed guitar moves and plenty of exposed flesh. There is rarely a dull moment. Furthermore, they hold the mantle of the heaviest band in Melbourne with a combined weight of nearly 700kgs

BARBARIoN are powerful and fertile MEN and they are ready to conquer your face..   Early in 2007 Myles-Harald Tauchert decided to combine his love of 80s metal and hazardous camp theatrics to create a band of heady excess. Seeing as nobody liked him much he had to settle for a bunch of eastern suburb b-graders and has-been, shabby Melbourne musicians who together are BARBARION.   Since then they have managed to hammer, weld and bash together all manner of hard-core rock and soft-core metal concepts into a sound that makes some people.. uncomfortable. See their contender for film clip of the year here: http://vimeo.com/22506211 BARBARION - My Rock   Highlights in recent times include; playing the Big Day Out Australian tour, Meredith Music Festival and Boogie Music Festival (all 2011), supporting international touring bands Alestorm (2013), Andrew WK (2011), Jeff the Brotherhood (2010) and Pulled Apart By Horses (2011), the release of their debut music video, 'My Rock' (2011), appearing on the Australian music trivia show 'Spics and Specs (2012) and the recording of a series of singles (2012) released in 2012/2013.   Barbarion have played many successful club shows in venues across Australia over the past 5 years and look forward to their first European tour in mid 2013.   Let us all gather on this glorious evening and rejoice in the fatness of ROCK and the final, uncompromising excellence of METAAALLL!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!   AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   $10 + BF / $13 on door 

+ Massive. Hard rock legend Lita Ford hits the Prince Bandroom Thursday 23 May. Tickets on sale now!

As a teenager in the late 1970's, Lita Ford was a founding member and lead guitarist of the pioneering all-female rock group, The Runaways. Lita, along with band members Joan Jett, Sandy West, Jackie Fox, and Cherie Currie, not only proved that girls could rock, but they could do it with the best of them. From the band's beginning to their eventual breakup in 1979, Lita Ford's guitar playing provided much of the force behind the bands groundbreaking sound.

The Runaways have influenced countless musicians over the years, both male and female. Bands such as The Donnas, Bikini Kill, and L7 wear their influence as a badge of honour, while other all-female groups like The Bangles and The Go-Go's may not have had the opportunity to exist without the doors opened by The Runaways. Ford's career with The Runaways was immortalized in the blockbuster 2010 film featuring Kristen Stewart.

The 1980's began the solo career of Lita Ford. With the release of albums such as 'Out for Blood', 'Dancin' on the Edge', and 'Lita', she was well on her way to earning the title of "The Queen of Metal".
As a solo artist Lita had the freedom to lean more to the hard side of rock n' roll. Hit singles Kiss Me Deadly (named one of the best hard rock songs of all time by VH1) and Close My Eyes Forever, a duet with metal master Ozzy Osbourne, took Lita to new heights both commercially and artistically.

Lita's newest release, 'Living Like A Runaway' is available on iTunes.
Blue Palm Touring are proud to present the queen of metal, Lita Ford, in Australia this May.

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VIP Meet N Greet tickets are inclusive of:
- 1 Photo with Lita
- 2 Items Autographed
- Tour Poster
- Show Entry

BLUE OYSTER CULT - 1ST EVER AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Blue Oyster Cult may be the ultimate 'cult' band. Revered by punks, metal heads, sci-fi geeks and horror movie fans alike, B.O.C. have carved out a 40-year career via a string of complex hard rock albums and killer live shows. The author Steven King adores them and so does Dave Graney. Their best known track Don't Fear The Reaper, was a U.S. top twenty hit in 1976 and the album it came from, Agents Of Fortune (featuring a collaboration with songstress Patti Smith) achieved platinum status while their overall catalogue sales are in excess of 24 million. They also provided Radio Birdman with the album title Radios Appear, a lyric taken from the track Dominance and Submission from the Blue Oyster Cult album Secret Treaties.

Most recently B.O.C. have released The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a 16 CD/ 1 DVD box set comprising all their studio albums from 1972 - 1988; three live albums; a rarities disc and the appropriately named radio broadcast collection: Radios Appear.

The live albums, starting with 1975's On Your Feet or On Your Knees, clearly demonstrate B C's strength as a live act; they're a bracingly powerful band, the rock solid support of the rhythm-bass-drums embellished by Buck Dharma's stinging guitar leads.

Already announced as a co-headliners at the 2013 Dig It Up! Feel are now proud to announce headline shows for Blue Oyster Cult in Sydney & Melbourne. For the these two special performances, B.O.C. will perform the entire show, no support - like wow!

And then there is this... Saturday Night Live

This will be the first-ever Australian tour for Blue Oyster Cult and it's all thanks to Hoodoo Gurus.

US outfit, OM, are bringing their unique blend of spiritually resonant and essential drone to Australia for a national tour this May...

OM formed in 2003 from the rhythm section of the disbanded Stoner doom metal band, Sleep. With a line-up comprised of Al Cisneros on vocals and bass and Chris Hakius on drums, they released three albums plus singles and EPs on credible labels such as Holy Mountain, Sub Pop and Southern Lord.

Their fourth album, God Is Good (2009) saw Hakius replaced by Emil Amos (Grails, Lilacs and Champagne and Holy Sons) and they followed up the album with their fifth and most recent studio offering, Advaitic Songs in 2012, which also saw multi-instrumentalist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens join the band full-time (previously of 90 Day Men and a vocal contributor to black metal band, Twilight).

God is Good and the five-song suite Advaitic Songs were both released via the record label, Drag City. Where God is Good was the first step in a more ornate and sophisticated direction for OM, Advaitic Songs decimated whatever drone-doom genre that had been hoisted at the band in years past by way of sheer imagination, expansive quality, and the meticulously detailed arrangements. For a band that has continually followed its own course and stood alone in its sound and approach, Advaitic Songs is the band's most focused, progressive record to date.

As blog, Obelisk stated: "OM have shed the minimalism that was so much a marker of their earliest work in favour of a richly atmospheric psychedelia that is, among other things, entirely their own sonically. Simply put, there isn't another band that sounds like OM does".

Three of Australiaâs mighty new talents â" Bored Nothing, Gung Ho and Step-Panther â" are joining forces for the third instalment of The Triple Treat Tour, a co-headlining jaunt around the country taking place this May.

Hailing from Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney respectively, in their own rights these three garage-esque acts have toured relentlessly, received liberal helpings of praise from triple j and community radio, and recently dropped assured releases, poising them for their next steps.

Melbourne outfit Bored Nothing (aka Fergus Miller) didn't plan on having a fixed abode, let alone a much-talked-about album! Mixing and matching sounds from shoegaze and sludge-metal to loner folk, Bored Nothing's first radio single 'Shit for Brains' got a whole lot of radio love, and his debut self-titled album scored a coveted triple j feature album slot in January. Existing as a full band onstage, the outfit are quickly making a name for themselves having already supported the likes of Beach House, Best Coast and Bleeding Knees Club.