Get ready for a few intimate afternoons with Aussie icons over the next few months thanks to Sunshine Beach Surf Club’s latest event series.
Kate Ceberano will kick off the series on 29 October 2023, followed by Ella Hooper, Ross Wilson, GANGgajang and Uncanny Xmen.
This year saw Kate rack up 40 years and 30 albums into one of the most enduring and inspirational careers in Australian music.
Eleven platinum and 8 gold albums, 15 Top 40 singles, 3 Countdown awards, 4 ARIA awards from 19 nominations, but it’s over 8000 performances that her unassailable distinction was forged.
Ella Hooper will be following on 3 December 2023.
Ella was still a teenager when she burst onto the Australian music scene – Unearthed by Triple J when she was just 13, Ella scored her first number one with the single ‘Mascara’ on her 17th birthday. And at 18, she became the first woman to be awarded APRA’s Songwriter of the Year.
After releasing three hit albums with Killing Heidi, Ella embarked on a solo career. Her forthcoming album, Small Town Temple – written in her hometown of Violet Town – has been hailed as a new beginning, showcasing Ella’s deeply personal songwriting.
Next up is Ross Wilson on 4 February 2024.
From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is one of Australia’s most awarded, respected and well-known artists!
From the legendary band Daddy Cool whose 1971 number one anthem Eagle Rock smashed all previous sales records in Australia, to the 1977 formation of Mondo Rock, delivering 80s hits ‘Cool World’, ‘State of The Heart’, ‘Chemistry’, ‘No Time’, and ‘Come Said The Boy’ and into the 21st century as a solo performer, producer and songwriter, Wilson has never been out of the limelight.
The branches of the GANGgajang family tree do indeed span far and wide; and on 24 March 2024 they’ll be dropping in on Sunshine Beach.
True to their ‘GANG’ philosophy, this ‘informal body of friends’ has continued to work together for over 30 years, while also pursuing their myriad of separate interests: writing, recording and touring with other artists including the reformed original Angels line-up, a resurfaced Riptides, Yothu Yindi, Jimmy Little, Jimmy Barnes, The Stetsons, Absent Friends, The Dukes and Wendy Matthews, to name but a few.
80s pop/rock sensation Uncanny X-Men original lineup reunite, for select shows in 2024, including Sunshine Beach on 19 May.
They can’t wait to get back on the road and perform for their loyal fans and play their chart-topping hits.
“We’re all fit and well and actually like each other, so; this tour is going to be us at our best. Can’t wait to get back on the road with my ’old mates’ and we are all super excited to perform for our loyal fans again,” John Kirk said.
Back in the 80’s there wasn’t a pop/rock radio station that didn’t play their smash charting hits ’50 Years’, ‘Everybody Wants To Work’ and ‘Party’. No. 3 ARIA charting album ‘Cos Life Hurts’ reached double platinum and ‘What You Give Is What You Get’ went Gold, cementing them on the pub rock scene.
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