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National Live Music Awards 2018 NT Winners

December 10, 2018

Foldback Magazine is proud to be media partners for the 3rd annual National Live Music Awards for the Northern Territory Division, held at the Darwin Railway Club. These [...]

Magic Dirt To Be Inducted As Live Legends At The 2018 National Live Music Awards

November 22, 2018

The National Live Music Awards are thrilled to announce the first Live Legend inductees, Magic Dirt. The group will be presented with the award as part of the Brisbane Gala [...]

National Live Music Awards – Lineups Revealed For 2018 Events

November 22, 2018

Today the National Live Music Awards are excited to reveal its main lineups for the 2018 run of events on 6th December 2018. Amongst the already revealed Brisbane gala [...]

CLIFTON’S NEW MUSIC VIDEO ‘WAVES’

November 1, 2018

Darwin hip hop artist Emcee Clifton has recently dropped a killer video for his deeply personal track ‘Waves‘. The up and coming young Territorian rapper focuses [...]

Stevie Jean’s Banging New Video For ‘Estranged’ Single Released

October 30, 2018

Ascendant Darwin songstress Stevie Jean has just released an absolutely slick new video for her suave single ‘Estranged’. Shot at Top End locations by [...]

National Live Music Awards People’s Choice Voting Now Open

October 24, 2018

The People Have Spoken: The 2018 NLMAs People’s Choice Nominees revealed – Voting Now Open! Following three weeks of nominations through media partners The Music [...]

Stevie Jean Drops New Single ‘Estranged’

October 22, 2018

Darwin singer songwriter Stevie Jean continues to impress, not just locally but nationally and now with the release of her impressive new single ‘Estranged‘, she [...]

Wide Open Space Festival To Skip 2019 For Revamp

October 8, 2018

After ten spectacular years, the annual Wide Open Space Festival (WOS) held in the desert outside Alice Springs, is taking a gap year in 2019 to work on re-strategising and [...]

National Live Music Awards – National Nominees Announced

October 2, 2018

Camp Cope leads the 2018 National Live Music Awards nominations Tonight in Sydney, the third annual National Live Music Awards announced the nominees across 55 categories, [...]

RachelRachel – Wonderful, Whatever

October 2, 2018

Award-winning Territory artist RachelRachel has released a sweet and slick new electronic track ‘Wonderful, Whatever‘, available now on Spotify. With excellent [...]

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december, 2020

3dec7:00 pmThursday Live @ Dom'sDom's Bar & Lounge

4dec2:00 pmTex Perkins & Matt Walker LiveAraluen Arts Centre - Alice Springs

Event Details

Tex Perkins has played a key role in Australian music

It’s understandably difficult to pull together a coherent picture of a man whose career has taken in everything from the groundbreaking experimental punktonica of Sydney mid-80s noiseniks Thug to the lilting, dark country of his recent material with the Dark Horses.

From the hard edged pub rock of the Beasts Of Bourbon’s, a snarling slice of filthy pub rock to the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea, whose extraordinary 1991 single ‘This Is Not The Way Home’ placed Perkins’ world-weary growl in a new musical context and heralded the emergence of an entirely original yet archetypically Australian sound.

Then there’s the Tex, Don & Charlie albums, which saw Perk
ins joining forces with the legendary Don Walker, Cold Chisel’s pianist and master songwriter and son of the Clarence Valley, and Charlie Owen, previously Australia’s best kept musical secret.

Now is Tex’s exciting new (and long over due) collaboration with Matt Walker (a great artist in his own right) for duo shows. It’s a blues swamp-groove kinda thing that’s a little reminiscent of some of the things in Tex’s back catalogue. Many new originals inhabit the setlist, but see them now while they still have to flesh out the set with a few Cruel Sea covers!

“Tex has the swagger, presence and indomitable attitude that comes from years of fronting some of Australia’s most intense and spirited rock’n’roll bands. His take-no-prisoners approach to performance comes with the sensibility of an artist committed to the subtle (and often unsubtle) nuances of his craft. Throw in an astonishing voice full of power and depth, mix it with a dry and sardonic sense of humour and what emerges is the reason there is only one Tex Perkins”.
(Stuart Coupe)

PERFORMANCES:
29th January @ 2pm & 8pm

TICKETS:
www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/whats-on