AUSTRALIAN ROCK COLLECTIVE PRESENTS HOTEL CALIFORNIA THE 50th ANNIVERSARY
Performing the Eagles’ biggest album in full + their greatest hits
National tour across June – tickets on sale this Friday 27 February
Today, local supergroup Australian Rock Collective (ARC) announces 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 Friday 27 February, at 11am local time.
My Live Nation members may secure tickets first during the presale which commences at 10am on Thursday 26 February and concludes at 10am on Friday 27 February. Register at livenation.com.au/register.
Sydney Opera House Insiders presale commences Thursday 26 February at 10am running until Friday 27 February at 10am (Sydney only).
Sydney Opera House What’s On presale commences Thursday 26 February at 12pm, running until Friday 27 February at 10am (Sydney only).
All times are local.
ARC PRESENTS
Hotel California the 50th Anniversary
HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK HEADS, QLD
FRIDAY 5 JUNE
CONCERT HALL, QPAC, BRISBANE, QLD
SATURDAY 6 JUNE
CIVIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE, NSW
TUESDAY 9 JUNE
ANITA’S THEATRE, THIRROUL, NSW
FRIDAY 12 JUNE
LLEWELLYN HALL, CANBERRA, ACT
SUNDAY 14 JUNE
HAMER HALL, MELBOURNE, VIC
TUESDAY 16 JUNE
CONCERT HALL, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY, NSW
THURSDAY 18 JUNE
THEBARTON THEATRE, ADELAIDE, SA
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
ASTOR THEATRE, PERTH, WA
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE
For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au
Live Nation Presale: Thu 26 Feb, 10am – Fri 27 Feb, 10am
SOH Insiders Presale: Thu 26 Feb, 10am – Fri 27 Feb, 10am (Sydney only)
SOH What’s On Presale: Thu 26 Feb, 12pm – Fri 27 Feb, 10am (Sydney only)
General Onsale: Fri 27 Feb, 11am
All times are local.
ABOUT ARC:
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 2x 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.
