The Bands Come Out to Play at Apia Good Times 2017

The annual Apia Good Times Tour returns for it's fifth consecutive year with another once-in-a-lifetime line-up of Oz music legends including The Black Sorrows with Vika + Linda Bull, Colin Hay (Men at Work), Mental as Anything and Deborah Conway leading the sing-alongs across the country.

The 2017 Apia Good Times Tour kicks off on Wednesday, 17 May in Darwin before taking in Adelaide, Perth, Bunbury, Melbourne, Bendigo, Geelong, Newcastle, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Sydney, Thirroul, Canberra, Launceston and finishing the party in Hobart. Tickets to all shows go on sale at 10.00am local times on Monday, 6 February.

2017's line-up of legends have a huge array of hits to draw from including Harley & Rose, Chained to the Wheel, Hold on to Me, Down Under, Who Can It Be Now?, Overkill, Nips Are Getting Bigger, Live it Up, Too Many Times, It's Only The Beginning and Man Overboard, to name a few. Each artist performs a solo set of their hits before joining in an extraordinary finale with all four sharing the stage.

The Black Sorrows are one of Australia's most enduring touring bands and live up to their reputation as a dynamic live act every time they hit the stage. Their musicianship and energy appeals to music fans everywhere and at their helm, Joe Camilleri steers the band through an interplay of solid grooves mixing blues, soul, R&B and gospel, with flashes of country and Brill Building pop.

The Black Sorrows are in top form after completing over 150 shows in the past 6 months alone to celebrate the release of their critically acclaimed 20th album, Faithful Satellite featuring Fix My Bail and the latest single, Raise Your Hands (with Vika + Linda).

For 30 years the glorious voices of Vika + Linda Bull have comprised one of the most distinctive, versatile and emotionally charged sounds on the Australian music landscape and have been an integral part of The Black Sorrows. Vika + Linda are world class singers in their own right and feature on many of the band's hits including Never Let Me Go, Chained to the Wheel and Raise Your Hands.

Colin Hay is familiar to millions of music lovers around the world as frontman, songwriter, and vocalist of pop sensation Men at Work. Over the past 15 years, Hay has reinvented himself as a solo artist, regularly selling out rooms around the world and introducing himself to a new generation of fans in the process.

Finding himself in the unprecedented place of having both 80s fame and indie credibility, Colin Hay has created an impressive body of work and in March, 2017, he will release his new album, Fierce Mercy, described as an epic, cinematic step forward exploring the themes of love and loss, but always with the singular perspective and acerbic wit that has defined Hay's work since his days with Men at Work.

Colin Hay takes his audience on a journey, through hilarious stories and songs from his extensive catalogue, sometimes straight down the main road, and sometimes taking the twists and turns of the road less travelled. You'll laugh, you may shed a tear, but you will most certainly be more than entertained. Colin Hay is returning to Australia exclusively for the Apia Good Times tour and these shows will be the first time Australian audiences get to hear him perform Men at Work classics alongside songs from the new album.

Nearly 40 years of recording and non-stop touring, 25 Top 40 hits in Australia and an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, and Mental As Anything are still going strong. "The Mentals" started off as students who put a band together to play blues, sixties pop, rockabilly, country and increasingly their own original compositions to fill in time at art school in Sydney in the mid 1970s. Initially playing to students at parties, pubs and Uni dances they caught the attention of new independent label Regular Records who in late 1978 sold out 1300 copies in a fortnight of the three track vinyl "Mental As Anything Plays at Your Party" with one track: The Nips Are Getting Bigger on everyone's radio over Christmas.

Mental As Anything, with their two original lead vocalists Martin Plaza and Greedy Smith, have been touring since the late 1970s honing the craft of performing their songs live and perfecting the art of just being Mental. And nailing it.

Deborah Conway has been a significant and eloquent contributor to Australian music for over 30 years. Conway's first band, Do Re Mi, topped the charts and her first solo album achieved platinum sales and earned her an ARIA Award. Conway will be joined onstage by long time collaborator, Willy Zygier, who she started working with in 1991, together they have written, recorded & released 9 albums that have all won appreciative audiences and critical acclaim from reviewers.

Alongside the core business of writing, recording and performing songs Conway and Zygier have pioneered the house concert concept in Australia; produced 'Broad', the national concert series of all female singer/songwriters from 2005 - 2008; Conway was the Artistic Director for the Queensland Music Festival 2009 - 2011; and they are running the Shir Madness Melbourne Jewish Music Festival as Festival & Artistic Directors in 2015 and 2017.

In 2016 Conway and Zygier's 1993, 5/4 anthem "Alive & Brilliant" was inducted into the National Film & Sound Archive and both Leaps & Bounds Festival and Rolling Stone Magazine recently named Conway a Living Legend. Their new album Everybody's Begging was released last September to rave reviews.

Tickets to the Apia Good Times Tour go on sale to the general public at 10.00am, local times, on Monday, 6 February 2017.

Apia Members pre-sale: Customers will have the opportunity to access pre-sale tickets from 10.00am on Wednesday, 1 February until 10.00am on Friday, 3 February.

Frontier Members pre-sale: Wednesday, 1 February from 2.00pm until Thursday, 2 February at 2.00pm (or earlier if pre-sale allocations exhausted)

Ticketek Members / Venue pre-sales: Thursday, 2 February from 10.00am until Friday, 3 February at 10.00am (or earlier if pre-sale allocations exhausted)

Hi res photos can be downloaded from here
The Apia Good Times Tour is proudly brought to you by Apia,
celebrating over 50s living life at their best. Apia Good Times Tour 2017:

The Black Sorrows with Vika + Linda Bull
Colin Hay (Men at Work)
Mental As Anything
Deborah Conway (Do Re Mi)

Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin, NT
Tickets available from the Box Office, 08 8980 3333 and www.yourcentre.com.au

Friday, 19 May 2017
Adelaide Entertainment Centre (Theatre Mode), Adelaide, SA
Tickets available from Ticketek - 132 849 and www.ticketek.com

Saturday, 20 May 2017
Perth Concert Hall, Perth, WA
Tickets available from Ticketmaster - 136 100 and
www.ticketmaster.com.au - and - Perth Concert Hall Box Office,
08 9231 9999 and www.perthconcerthall.com.au

Sunday, 21 May 2017*
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury, WA
Tickets available from the BREC Box Office, 1300 661 272 and www.bunburyentertainment.com
*4pm matinee show

Friday, 26 May 2017
Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Vic
Tickets available from Ticketmaster - 136 100 and
www.ticketmaster.com.au and Arts Centre Melbourne -
1300 182 183 and www.artscentremelbourne.com.au

Saturday, 27 May 2017
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, Vic
Tickets available from the Box office, 03 5434 6100 and www.gotix.com.au

Sunday, 28 May 2017
Costa Hall, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Geelong, Vic
Tickets available from GPAC - 03 5225 1200 and www.gpac.org.au

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Civic Theatre, Newcastle, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketek - 132 849 and www.ticketek.com
-and- the Box Office, 02 4929 1977 and www.civictheatrenewcastle.com.au

Thursday, 1 June 2017
Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, Qld
Tickets available from the Box office, 1300 655 299 and www.empiretheatre.com.au

Friday, 2 June 2017
QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, Qld
Tickets available from the Box Office, 136 246 and www.qpac.com.au

Saturday, 3 June 2017
Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, NSW
Tickets available from the Box office, 1800 014 014 and www.twintowns.com.au

Friday, 9 June 2017
Enmore Theatre, Enmore/Sydney, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketek - 132 849 and www.ticketek.com

Saturday, 10 June 2017
Anita's Theatre, Thirroul, NSW
Tickets available from Ticketmaster - 136 100 and www.ticketmaster.com.au

Sunday, 11 June 2017
Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra, ACT
Tickets available from the Box Office, 02 6275 2700 and www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au

Friday, 16 June 2017
Princess Theatre, Launceston, TAS
Tickets available from the Box Office, 03 6323 3666 and www.theatrenorth.com.au

Saturday, 17 June 2017
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, Hobart, TAS
Tickets available from Tixtas - 1300 795 257 and www.tixtas.com.au

For more information or to book visit www.apiagoodtimes.com.au

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