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TROPIC • MUSIC
Gig guide
Spotlight on…
APRIL
WED 6 APRIL Abi Muir
Midnight Oil
Cairns Convention Centre This former Redlynch State College
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and the accolades. In the first few months
SUN 10 APRIL of this year alone, the 18-year-old has
Ian Moss & Troy Cassar-Daley’s become a finalist in the 2022 Queensland
Together Alone Tour Music Awards for the second year in a
Cairns Performing Arts Centre row, is featuring in triple J’s Unearthed
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and the second single off her debut EP
has taken out the Grand Prize Winner
FRI 22 APRIL in the Rock category of the John Lennon
Sneaky Sound System Songwriting contest. The song, Stockholm,
Tanks Arts Centre is a departure from her previous pop-
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indie sound. Inspired by bands such as
Evanescence, Within Temptation and
MAY
Evermore, it has a more passionate,
FRI 7 MAY rock-based power.
Missy Higgins
Cairns Performing Arts Centre
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THUR 10 MAY It tells the heart-breaking
Guy Sebastian story of someone trapped Credit: Greg Hillman
Cairns Convention Centre Having recently performed her first
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Abi Muir Centre, she is not one to take a back seat.
MON 21 MAY Singer/Songwriter Abi has even more new music, dropping
Kasey Chambers and Busby Marou her single Story of You in March.
Behind the Barricades Tour “It is led with a distorted electric guitar, It’s worth taking a look at her music
Cairns Performing Arts Centre hard-hitting drums and haunting synth videos, too. All shot in her hometown,
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lyrics,” Abi said. “I had just finished Port Shorts, the award-winning videos
MON 22 MAY reading Harry Potter (for the tenth time!) are polished and sophisticated –
Jon Stevens and was kind of obsessed with Draco highlighting not only local filmmaking
The Noiseworks & INXS Collection Malfoy, and wanted to write about the talent, but Abi’s acting strength.
Tanks Arts Centre feeling of being trapped in love with
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and bad for you.”
Hilton Cairns + Devils Thumb Collaboration
Come and experience Devils Thumb Gin throughout the month of April
at the Devils Thumb popup bar located at the Hilton Cairns.
Launch event starts 6pm Saturday 2nd April
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