IN August Boy & Bear gave fans in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth an early taste of their fourth album Suck On Light. It was an album, and performances, many within the ARIA Award-winning Sydney band never thought would eventuate due to frontman David Hosking's long-term battle with a stomach illness.
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Finally well again, and with a North American tour successfully completed, Hosking and his bandmates are gearing up for massive run of Australia and New Zealand in 2020. The tour begins at The Drop festival in Noosa on February 29 and finishes at Wollongong's Waves on May 16.
In between you can catch Boy & Bear at Newcastle's The Drop (March 7), Townsville (April 4), Wodonga (April 9), Torquay (April 11), Adelaide (April 23), Melbourne (May 1), Sydney (May 2) and Canberra (May 15).
LIAM GETS MUTED
LIAM Gallagher fans in Melbourne were left seething on Wednesday night after a noise curfew caused the sound to be cut mid-way through the former Oasis singer's final song.
Gallagher was performing Oasis classic Supersonic when sound at the Margaret Court Arena was switched off or the English star would have received a $250,000 fine for breaching the 11pm curfew.
Many fans expressed their outrage online at the Victorian Government and Gallagher wrote on Twitter that, "I mean those tunes are biblical and I'm the f--king biblical brother but c'mon that's a f--king piss take, who ever made that rule needs to stop smoking SPICE."
REHEATED POTATO
FOR a generation of fans the real Wiggles will always be Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Anthony Field.
Finally the "classic" Wiggles albums have been re-issued on all streaming platforms to allow old fans to reminiscence with children's hits like Wake Up Jeff and Hot Potato and for a new generation to discover how three Early Childhood Education university students and one ex-Cockroach became a global phenomenon.
In 2013 Cook, Page and Fatt retired their skivvies and Field was joined by new Wiggles Emma Watkins, Lachlan Gillespie and Simon Pryce.