Floriade NightFest 2026

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  Tim Finn
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  Busby Marou
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  Christine Anu

  Christine Anu is an Australian pop singer/songwriter/actress of Torres Strait Islander descent. She is an Australian icon, and her cover of “My Island Home” is the song that she is most known for. She studied dancing at school, thinking that it would lead her into a singing career. She has also worked as a cultural ambassador for Torres Strait Islanders, and she is associated with the "Deadlys" - the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, sport, entertainment and community awards.

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  Pacific Avenue

  Pacific Avenue are ecstatic to finally announce that their debut album ‘Flowers’ will be released to the world on Friday, May 5 via BMG; a milestone achievement for a group of musicians who have remarkably seen win after win in their rapidly spectacular lifespan.

  During the early stages of production, the band didn’t necessarily have a set theme or direction in mind for the body of work they would create. If anything, the content came from embracing the sound they’d crafted over the last half-decade, instinctive classic rock that decorates a timespan of stories and collective experiences, all while accentuating the band’s opulent style.

  “Being our debut album, we wanted it to make a statement with the sound we want to be known for,” says lead vocalist and songwriter Harry O’Brien. “We also wanted to show a range in influence, with some songs leaning towards typical rock and roll, and others being sweeter ballads.”

  It’s no secret that Pacific Avenue’s influences are rooted in eras long gone on the calendar, but artistically ever-present throughout the modern age, finding ways to stay alive and thrive with new youthful generations. ‘Flowers’ flaunts its mystical prowess throughout its twelve-track length, riddled with familiar melodies and passages that pay homage to an array of inspirations, decorated with signature intricacies that uphold the record’s significance.

  Throughout the duration of ‘Flowers’, the group’s love towards their pioneers is revealed from the tenderness of ‘Strawberry Daydream’ to the wistful time warp ‘Lay Me Down’, from the sentimental touch of ‘Wake Me Up’ to the raucous vitality of ‘Devotion’. “Stylistically, we have a real affinity for the 60s and 70s,” continues Harry. “We wanted to do our best to tip our caps towards the bands we love and sound like a classic album you could find in your parent’s vinyl collection, while still making a record that sounds relevant to today’s culture of music.”

  Pacific Avenue’s music has made evident waves across Australia in recent years. With multiple releases added to full rotation on triple j and Triple M, and accumulating over 10 million streams on Spotify, Pacific Avenue have become more than just a familiar name on the airwaves and festival line ups – they’ve developed a steadily growing fan base that have followed the band from their humble beginnings as local South Coast entertainers to flourishing Australian luminaries. “Growing up playing music and listening to the albums of my favourite bands, I would never have imagined that I’d be doing the same,” comments Jack. “To be able to create our debut album with some of my best friends is such a special moment in life.”

  Birthed after several songs were successfully written in the first jam session between former busking competitors Harry O’Brien and Ben Fryer, who later recruited mutual friends Jack Kay and Dom Littrich to complete the foursome, Pacific Avenue’s turning point came when they released the beloved, fan-favourite single ‘Easy Love’. From then on, it was comfortable positioning across editorial playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, being recognised as a triple j Unearthed Feature Artist, regular airplay across community and commercial radio stations; not to mention the song coming in at #108 in the triple j Hottest 200 of 2021. It was an outstanding, momentous result that exquisitely set up the band for the year ahead.

  Following themes of positivity, a rarity in modern music, Pacific Avenue followed up in 2022 with ‘Give It Up For Yourself’, a Brit-Pop inspired, humbling ode to self-love that scored favourably with tastemakers such as iHeart Radio, LISTNR, NME, The Guardian, rage and MTV. “When I was writing the lyrics,” says Harry, “I wanted to keep in mind the importance of taking a step back and appreciating how far you have come, no matter how far along you are in achieving your dreams. If the younger version of yourself could see you today, I’m sure you would be proud.”

  Recent single ‘Leaving For London’, which clocked in at #57 in the triple j Hottest 100 of 2022, contributed to the band’s impressive rise in popularity, and saw the group tour alongside Louis Tomlinson (UK) and Crooked Colours, adding to their already astonishing live performance resume with appearances alongside The Wombats (UK), Lime Cordiale, Ocean Alley, 5 Seconds of Summer, DMAs, Tash Sultana, Skegss, San Cisco, Ruby Fields, Thelma Plum and Missy Higgins.

  Such persistent appearances to the public eye has led the band to selling out multiple venues across their last four headline tours, including Factory Theatre and Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, Uni Bar in Wollongong, Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, The West Room and Woolly Mammoth in Brisbane, and Northern Hotel in Byron Bay. From indoors to outdoors, the band have been billed on festivals such as Lost Paradise, This That, Spaced Out, Yours & Owls, Snow Tunes and Mountain Sounds.

  ‘Flowers’ is not only an affectionate billet-doux to the classic rock blueprint that Pacific Avenue built on throughout their unwavering career; it’s a celebration of pridefulness and self-esteem, an emblematic depiction of unity and a reminder of deep interconnections. “To me this album has defined our sound and encapsulated everything that we have been through from the beginning,” comments Dom. “Each song has a permanent marker in my memory as it takes me back to a time and place, and I hope that the listener can share this feeling.”

  “If there’s anything we want people to take away from the record it’s for you to feel included,” says Harry. “That’s really the whole point of Rock and Roll and why we’re a band, so you can go to a show and be in a room full of people you don’t know, yet still feel connected to everyone because you’re all screaming the same words about falling in love, or moving to a new city, or getting caught in the rain, whatever it is. It’s nothing that hasn’t already been done before, but it’s something we’ve wanted to be a part of for a long time.”

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  The Temper Trap

  One night in a bar in Melbourne I found Dougy, born of Indonesian decent and bearing the trans-atlantic accent of a kid who grew up all over he world, but this isnt some fairytale connection story. He was looking to start a band and thought I looked like a muso. But I wasnt interested in joining another band, so I palmed him off to a friend and thought I was done with it. But you cant fight fate, and I kept running into Dougy around the city, he continued to ask me "Hey, do you want to start a band?". I guess I ran out of excuses and eventually found myself behind a borrowed set of drums, listening wide eyed, mesmorised by the sound coming from Dougy's stereo, the sound of Dougy's voice blowing like the QE2 on full steam heading into port. I was struck immediately by the power hidden in those songs and knew that I had to be a part of it. Jonny enters stage left about now. A jovial young idealistic kid with more dyslexic dreams than Marvin Gaye. He'd been friends with Dougy for years and was drafted in when someone didn't show. He'd never played the bass before and tried to strangle himself with the strap pulled tight, but he made up for any lack of practice with a raw energy that filled the room. From here we chewed through a couple of guitarists, before finding ourselves with Lorenzo, an old friend of mine who'd played in half the shitty garage bands I ever started, and in keeping with the theme of our story, the very person I'd palmed Dougie off to in the first place. It's been years of smiles and tears that's left The Temper Trap on the brink of something... A band whose connection with forces out of our control shimmers through every wall of melody, burns through every feedback loop and seeps out of every aching pore in the intense and provocative body of sound we create. I guess we're pushing for something beautiful, something we've felt in the music of Leonard Cohen or The Mars Volta or Echo And The Bunnymen. And so we stand, feet on the edge, head in the clouds, ready to take the leap of faith into the unknown. If you ask around, our standout tracks are usually pretty diverse. I like My Sun, it races out of the blocks, all crash and bash, while others point out Peter Parker's Alter Ego's pop sensibility, shrouded in a dark veil of melancholy. Another popular one, Sirens is an anthem that builds and builds. In our short lives, The Temper Trap have shared stages with internationals, Damo Suzuki (CAN) and Omar Rodriguez (Mars Volta), Modest Mouse, The Dears, and Spank Rock as well as being the only unsigned act invited to play both the Melbourne and Sydney Laneway Festivals.

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