Local supergroup Australian Rock Collective (ARC) have announced a new tour, performing the Eagles’ legendary album HOTEL CALIFORNIA in full to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant albums in popular music, as well as their greatest hits, across Australia this June.
ARC is undoubtedly Australia’s most celebrated supergroup, with a combined 33 ARIA Awards and 16 Top Ten ARIA Albums. Comprised of four living legends in Australian rock music – Kram (Spiderbait), Darren Middleton (Powderfinger), Mark Wilson (Jet) and Davey Lane (You Am I) – they bring to the stage the rabid enthusiasm of friends who grew up as diehard music fans combined with the legacy, skills and experience of artists who have directly contributed to it.
Davey Lane said today, “Strap yourselves in and be our esteemed guests as we set the controls for the heart of the sunny Californian state, the spirit of ’76 and one of the greatest selling albums of all time – The Eagles’ Hotel California.
It’s incredibly precise and loose, fast and easy (seemingly) – we’re not shy of challenging ourselves and this could be the most challenging yet. We’ve been very lucky to grace some of the greatest Australian venues and concert halls over the last 7 years we’ve annually done this and we’re limbering up for this to be the biggest tour yet. We might even grow moustaches especially for the occasion!”
The tour starts in Brunswick Heads on Friday 5 June, followed by Brisbane, Newcastle, Thirroul, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, before wrapping up in Perth on Wednesday 24 June.
Tickets go on sale Monday 16 March, at 11am local time.
My Live Nation members may secure tickets first during the presale which commences on Friday 13 March at 10am and concludes on Monday 16 March at 10am. Register at livenation.com.au/register. All times are local.
For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au
Live Nation Presale: Fri 13 Mar, 10am – Mon 16 Mar, 10am
General Onsale: Mon 16 Mar, 11am
All times are local.
Few musicians are as qualified to call themselves the Australian Rock Collective.
Comprised of four living legends of Australian rock music – Kram (Spiderbait), Darren Middleton (Powderfinger), Mark Wilson (Jet) and Davey Lane (You Am I) – ARC bring not just the rabid enthusiasm of friends who grew up as diehard fans of rock music and its legacy, but the chops, skills and experience of musicians who have directly contributed to it.
Between them ARC can count 33 ARIA Awards, 16 Top Ten albums, and 2 x ARIA Hall of Famers in Jet and You Am I. Throw in over 20+ years of heavy international and national touring, sold out shows spanning tiny dive bars to football stadiums, songs that have virtually become national anthems, and collectively ARC can claim several lifetimes worth of sustained musical excellence.
ARC formed in 2014 when, on a whim, the four friends were asked to perform at the World Cup in Brazil. Since that baptism of fire, the group have forged a tight-knit musical kinship as unique as the careers that made them so successful in their own right.
As well as regularly playing festivals and events the nation over, ARC regularly draw from their earliest inspirations to present classic albums at some of the most prestigious venues in Australia. ARC’s lively presentation of modern rock touchstones such as Abbey Road, Let It Be, Harvest, Dark Side Of The Moon and Led Zeppelin IV – even while continuing to make records and undertake extensive tours with their own bands – give audiences a genuinely powerful experience: an unmatched insight into this music that resonates through generations, by four musicians who continue to make and contribute to it themselves.
This is music played for music fans, by music fans.