Tania Doko and James Roche of Bachelor Girl have proven their enduring, much-loved status in Aussie music culture.

Their double platinum, Aria award winning debut album, featuring hit singles ‘Lucky Me’, ‘Treat Me Good’ and ‘Permission To Shine’, included the international smash, ‘Buses and Trains’. Written by James, it was credited as the most played Australian composition in the last 25 years.

The formidable coupling of songwriting and band performance excellence is landmarked by the recent announcement of Tania Doko’s place in the top 300 of Triple M’s ‘Greatest Singers of All Time’ list.

With a career spanning over 45 years, ICEHOUSE is one of Australia’s most iconic bands, transcending age groups with their hit songs, well known and loved by audiences across generations, playing to sell-out, capacity audiences in Australia, New Zealand and throughout the World.

Formed by Iva Davies, the band’s frontman and musical creative force, ICEHOUSE went on to have an amazing 28 Platinum albums, eight Top 10 albums and over thirty Top 40 singles.

ICEHOUSE’s unofficial Australian anthem, Great Southern Land, is 40 years old and the band will be on tour in 2022 and 2023 to celebrate the song that’s been the soundtrack to everything from discussions about Mabo and the soundtrack to the Australian cricket team walking on the field, to having a plane named after it.

Great Southern Land has been a part of almost every Australian’s summer soundtrack for the past 40 years and in 2014, it was inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia registry. It’s also been remixed a number of times, most notably Bill Laswell’s The Great Southern Mix, clocking in at almost 16 minutes, and the Byrralku Dhangudha remix from 1994 which features Indigenous musicians playing and singing the chorus in their own language. Its message is as current and relevant today as it was when it first appeared.

In 2017, the band received another tribute when Qantas invited the public to vote for the names of the planes for their new fleet of Dreamliner 787-9s. Out of over 60,000 name suggestions submitted, Great Southern Land won the honour of the very first plane in the fleet being named after the iconic hit.

In the same year, ICEHOUSE also celebrated 40 years of live performance with a national Australian tour and several outdoor performances in New Zealand and has continued to perform selected concerts for sell-out audiences in both countries since then.

ICEHOUSE has toured Australia and New Zealand with sell out shows across both countries to rapturous audiences and reviews.

Rogue Traders are an electric, pop rock band formed in 2000 by James Ash and fellow
original band member Steve Davis, both DJ’s and Producers hailing from the UK. In 2004
actress Natalie Bassingthwaighte joined the band on lead vocals, alongside Ash on keys,
Tim Henwood on guitar and Cameron McGlinchey on drums.

Throughout the decade, the group shot to fame achieving chart success both locally and
internationally, releasing 7 top 20 hits on the ARIA Singles Chart, ‘One of My Kind’, ‘Voodoo
Child’, ‘Way to Go!’, ‘Watching You’, ‘We’re Coming Home’, ‘Don’t You Wanna Feel’ and ‘I
Never Liked You’. Their most successful single, ‘Voodoo Child’, peaked at number #3 on the
UK Singles Chart, #4 in Australia, #7 in New Zealand and #15 on the Irish Singles Chart.

In 2005 the band release their classic album, ‘Here Come the Drums’, which was certified 4 x
platinum on the ARIA albums chart, in 2007 ‘Better in the Dark’ was released and certified
platinum by ARIA. In 2009 Mindi Jackson joined the band replacing Bassingthwaighte as front
woman and the Rogue’s went on to release their fourth critically acclaimed record ‘Night of
the Living Drums’.

Rogue Traders have sold over 1 million records worldwide and toured both nationally and
internationally. The band have been nominated for 10 x ARIA Awards, 3 x MTV Awards, 1 x
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award, 1 x Inside Film Award and 8 x APRA Awards. Winning
APRA’s for ‘Way to Go’ and ‘In Love Again’ the ARIA for ‘One of a Kind’ MTV Award for
‘Voodoo Child’

Over the past few years, the group have taken a break from recording and touring, choosing
to spend time on their solo careers and family. Natalie Bassingthwaighte released a solo
album ‘1000 stars’ that went to straight #1 on the ARIA Chart and was certified gold. returned
to television, as host of Network Ten’s highly successful talent show, ‘So You Think You Can
Dance’ and then went on to become a judge on one of the countries most popular
entertainment programs ‘The X Factor’. James, Tim and Cameron continued to focus heavily
on music – writing, producing, recording and touring with a number of acclaimed Australian
musicians over the years. All 4 members have never steered too far away from music.

In 2015, a monumental reunion took the stage, featuring James Ash, Natalie
Bassingthwaighte, Tim Henwood, and Cam McGlinchey – all back together after a long
hiatus. The energy ignited anew, setting stages ablaze and leaving audiences hungry for
more. Fast forward to 2023, their fresh single “To The Disco” stormed the iTunes Dance
Chart at #1. Get ready, because Rogue Traders are gearing up to share more electrifying
music, proving their legendary status only deepens over time.

For more information and to be kept up to date, please visit: www.roguetraders.net

This far into her stellar career, Vanessa Amorosi remains one of the most exciting singers on the
planet. Her song-writing and dynamic vocal range have seen the artist sell over two million records
worldwide. She has released seven commercially and critically acclaimed studio albums, received
sixteen ARIA and APRA nominations, and stopped the world in it’s tracks with her performance of
‘Heroes Live Forever’ and ‘Absolutely Everybody’ at the Sydney Olympics.

Vanessa reached incredible success in 1999 with her debut single ‘Have A Look’ followed by megahits in Australia and Europe with ‘Absolutely Everybody’ and ‘Shine.’ Her debut album ‘The Power’
reached #1 in Australia, #7 in the United Kingdom, #1 in Hungary and the top 10 in several European
countries. This was followed by a European tour performing to thousands of people for over two solid
years at the age of twenty.

In 2008 Vanessa returned with her third album ’Somewhere In The Real World.’ That year, radio
smash-hit ‘Perfect’ became the most played song by an Australian artist.

2009 saw the release of platinum-selling ‘Hazardous.’ The first single to be released, ‘This Is Who I
Am’ debuted at #1 on the ARIA singles chart and achieved Double Platinum sales. That same year,
Vanessa had the honor of recording duets with superstar Mary J. Blige and American rock band
Hoobastank. Vanessa has toured worldwide to millions and joined the stage supporting incredible
artists including Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), KISS, INXS, Rob Thomas, Savage Garden, Macy Gray,
Bryan Adams and touring Europe with Joe Cocker.

In 2019 Vanessa released her fifth studio album ‘Back To Love’ followed by an Australian solo tour
and successful festival tours ‘Red Hot Summer Tour’ and ‘One Electric Day.’ In 2020, Vanessa
released ‘The Blacklisted Collection’ made up of songs that had been previously rejected by major
labels. The album debuted at #1 on the AIR 100% Independent Music Charts and #2 on the ARIA
Digital Albums Chart.

In 2022 Vanessa was back in the charts with her fourth Top 10 album, ‘City Of Angels,’ debuting at #1
on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart, #7 on the ARIA Album Chart and #1 on the Independent Music
Charts. ‘City Of Angels’ was released through Vanessa’s own indie Record Label ’Scream Louder
Records’.

Known to experiment with multiple genres, Vanessa has teamed up once again with Dave Stewart on
the upcoming soul/blues album ‘Memphis Love,’ set for release on Stewart’s Bay Street Records in
November 2023. “Collaboratively producing this with Dave Stewart was a dream, inspiring me to
explore boundless vocal possibilities, free from any constraints,” says Vanessa. Recorded at
Memphis Royal Studios in Tennessee, the album showcases Vanessa’s powerhouse vocals and
soulful influences.

What’s in a name? South Carolina singer-songwriter Sam Beam launched his international career under the “band name” Iron & Wine, while fellow South Carolina native, singer, songwriter and producer Chaz Bear travels as Toro Y Moi. The world knows Canadian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Afie Jurvanen far better as Bahamas, while, fresh out of Western Australia, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Perth’s Kevin Parker, has conquered the world in his guise as Tame Impala. Similarly, over on the east coast, fellow Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mat McHugh is and always has been The Beautiful Girls, though for some reason, that fact seems to have often proven oddly elusive to both fans and media alike.

“Even from the very early days,” recalls McHugh, “when it all first started, it was a toss of a coin whether the project would be under my name or something else. I’d just come back from overseas in 2001 and the earliest incarnation of the songs were completely four-tracked, back in the day of four- and eight-track tape machines – pre-computers – and every part would be written – every drum fill, every bass line… I’ve always just heard fully-formed songs in my head, and pretty early on, I figured out the easiest way to communicate them to people was to record them myself. Those tapes ended up in the hands of a couple of friends who agreed to come and play some shows with me. That was the beginning The Beautiful Girls.”

Within a year, McHugh had independently released two Beautiful Girls EPs – Morning Sun and Goodtimes – with the collective’s debut album, Learn Yourself, released in 2003. From its inception McHugh always operated The Beautiful Girls as a “collective” rather than a “band”, a project in which various players came and went depending on what the music he was writing at the time required.

“Writing the songs, I’d approach it like a playwright. I knew the ‘actors’ – the musicians – and I knew their strengths. So if I had a saxophone part, I’d know who I wanted to play that part and knew how they would play and I’d write for them. Similarly with drums and keyboards, I would write for that person, and then in an ideal world we’d all go out and perform that album, and line-ups would be different from album to album, from one tour to the next.”

Musically The Beautiful Girls has always been as diverse as the music that inspired him growing up.

“I grew up in a single-parent low-income suburb by the beach,” McHugh explains, “and, while my mother was working, I spent a lot of time being raised by the surf and skate community. I’d always be hearing hip hop and reggae and punk rock on the sound-systems at parties or blaring out of the back of cars on the way to the surf. Now that I look back on it, and even when I started writing my own music, all these sounds kind of mashed together into one combined soundtrack for me. When it was my turn to contribute musically, I only ever wanted to make a sound that was representative of the sound that I was immersed in growing up. A mash-up of all of those styles that I loved would be, I figured, the perfect way to express my past, my present, and might help create my future. There wasn’t really anyone doing something similar locally when I started. I was fooling around with my acoustic songs by adding dub bass lines and hip hop grooves on a beat-up old drum kit in my garage. I was singing in a mellow style about my real feelings while all my other friends in bands were playing punk rock and screaming at the world. I still really love that stuff but I felt like my own musical expression lay elsewhere.’”

McHugh’s music was obviously a “mash-up” that struck a chord, not only in Australia but internationally. Two years after releasing its debut EP, The Beautiful Girls were touring Japan, Canada and the US. Throughout, McHugh kept writing, with another EP, Weight of the World, released in 2005, and a Brazilian musician, Felipe Kmiecik, joining the collective on keyboards, melodica and harmonica for the subsequent Australian tour. Kmiecik also featured on the second album, We’re Already Gone, released in July that year and reaching #19 on the ARIA Album Chart as well as being nominated for an ARIA award, a Triple J ‘J Award’, and scoring a coveted spot on Richard Kingsmill’s top 10 albums of the year list. Julia Stone was another guest vocalist on the album.

“As the music has evolved,” McHugh adds, “it’s become more about intensifying each of the elements. To this day, I still have the same blueprint. There’s always got to be this underpinning dubby rhythm and a certain propulsion to the groove. I try to keep the lyrics raw and real and to keep a punk rock spirit in the approach… All the elements, I feel, have just become more refined and better articulated over time. More life, more fire.”

The third album, Ziggurats, released in May 2007, reached #21 on the ARIA chart and included I Thought About You, which was nominated in the 2008 APRA Music Awards in the Blues & Roots Work of the Year category. Along the way, The Beautiful Girls continued playing stages across Japan, the UK, Europe, Brazil, the US and Canada as well as Australia. By now, however, it was also becoming increasingly obvious to McHugh that there was so much music pouring out of him that he needed to release a ‘solo’ album, which he duly did – Separatista! By 2010 The Beautiful Girls could look back on a dozen world tours in just eight years, no mean feat for any act but particularly impressive when you consider McHugh was doing it all independently – not a single major label or corporate sponsorship in sight!

Between Beautiful Girls releases – 2010’s Spooks and 2014’s Dancehall Days – and despite being forced off the road once again – there’d been a motorcycle accident in LA in 2008 – this time by a ruptured appendix, McHugh also managed to squeeze out a second solo album, Love Come Save Me, in April 2012. And in the past decade, every song sung, every note played, every beat struck on a Beautiful Girls record has all been down to Mat McHugh.

“I think what’s happened now,” he says, “is that I’ve reached a style that I can call my own. I feel like it really sounds like me and it’s honest and authentic. I can hear where I came from and how long it took me to get here,” McHugh reflects. “Along the way there’s been a lot of challenging both myself and the audience from one album to the next; a lot of restless experimentation to see how far I could stretch out. All I know is I feel super fortunate I’ve been given the support to be able to grow and get stronger over the years. In some weird way I feel like I’ve only, just now, reached the starting line. From the moment I first started writing music I’ve always felt that it’s important to fight for each moment – that it’s the only place where people, and songs, are truly alive. It’s only after time has passed – I’m learning – that all these moments, someday, they all add up to something.”

So, what’s in a name? Mat McHugh was, is and always has been The Beautiful Girls, and there’s a lot more extraordinary music yet to come from the man behind the name.

Diesel has personified a life’s devotion to music in an outstanding four-decade, million-record-selling career.

His fans have cheered him on along a remarkable road of vital and varied endeavours, whether he’s excelling as a blues man or soul stylist, as a pop devotee or rock powerhouse, or with all elements in unison as the dynamic and acclaimed live performer Diesel’s audiences know him to be. Music lovers hail him as a guitarist’s guitarist, while the industry seeks him out as an in-demand guest instrumentalist, songwriter, engineer, and producer.

DIESEL: With 100 million+ streams, 43 singles, 16 albums, 6 ARIA Awards, and 1 million+ record sales, DIESEL embodies contemporary music mastery. A musician, singer, songwriter, and performer. With 4,000 live shows under his belt, DIESEL is a certified journey man. In 2022, DIESEL hosted ABC National’s concert & interview series Days Like These, now on ABC iView. The Hepfidelity 30th anniversary album, featuring 10 bonus tracks, debuted Aug 22: #1 on ARIA Vinyl Charts,#4 on Aria Australian Album charts. Triple Platinum (210,000+ sales).Upcoming: New DIESEL single out Aug 25. New Rock/Pop album drops Oct 13.