An article about the Crowded House headlining Red Hot Summer Tour 2025.

Author:  Rod Thompson, Newcastle Weekly.

Date: 1 June 2025.

Original URL: https://newcastleweekly.com.au/crowded-house-set-for-red-hot-summer-in-hunter-valley/

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Crowded House set for Red Hot Summer in Hunter Valley

A stellar line-up of Aussie music legends, headed by Crowded House, will venture to the Hunter Valley in 2025.

Neil Finn and the boys are set to front the latest edition of the Red Hot Summer Tour – alongside Angus & Julia Stone, The Church, Mark Seymour with Vika & Linda, and The Waifs – at Roche Estate on Saturday 25 October.

General public tickets go on sale from 9am on Thursday 5 June at www.ticketmaster.com.au

Crowded House – now featuring Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons Elroy and Liam – boasts sales of more than 15 million records worldwide.

Along the way, the group’s earned a Brit Award, 13 Australian ARIA Awards, three Aotearoa Music Awards and an MTV VMA.

They’ve also been captivating audiences for nearly four decades.

Originally founded by Finn, Seymour and the late Paul Hester, the trio’s self-titled debut in 1986 went platinum, uplifted by worldwide smashes Something So Strong and Don’t Dream It’s Over.

In 1996, the band delivered a legendary performance to more than 150,000 on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, beginning a hiatus that finished in the wake of Hester’s passing in 2005.

This led to albums Time on Earth (2007) and Intriguer (2010).

In 2020, Finn – after a brief stint as a full-time member of Fleetwood Mac – and Seymour led another era of Crowded House.

They issued their first full-length offering in 11 years, the unanimously acclaimed Dreamers Are Waiting (2021) and the group leapt into a rapturous world tour in support.

Crowded House released its eighth studio album Gravity Stairs last year to rave reviews.

Angus & Julia Stone
Angus & Julia Stone are an acclaimed sibling singing/songwriting duo whose music spans intimate folk and dreamy indie pop.

They have released six albums, including their breakthrough success Down The Way, featuring the single Big Jet Plane, which has amassed more than 600 million streams and earned them five ARIA Award wins, #1 in Triple J’s Hottest 100 and a #1 ARIA Album Chart debut.

With over 20 years of international touring under their belts, building a loyal and ever-growing global fan base, their most recent sold-out international tour for the album, Cape Forestier, marked a milestone.

It brought their music to South and Central America for the first time.

Ahead of a new record landing in 2026, Angus & Julia are bringing old and new songs to the stage.

The Church

The Church is one of the most successful and enduring bands of the post-punk era.

They were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2010, reaffirming their status as one of the world’s greatest live acts.

The Church continues to create timeless music that deeply resonates with audiences worldwide.

From their early days in Sydney’s underground scene to their global overground success, Steve Kilbey and the boys remain one of the most innovative groups of their era, with classics such as The Unguarded Moment, Almost With You, Metropolis, When You Were Mine, Reptile and Under The Milky Way.

Mark Seymour and Vika & Linda

Mark Seymour and Vika & Linda first met 40 years ago in a South Melbourne studio, their voices blending on the first Vika & Linda album, later on a Hunters and Collectors record and then most recently on the Red Hot Summer Tour of ’23.

They will join forces for this concert series as a combined ensemble, in a celebration of a shared belief in live Australian music.

There’ll be stories, laughter, truth, maybe some tears.

Seymour formed Hunters and Collectors in 1980, with a bunch of uni friends.

The band became famous for its rhythmic power and was quickly touted as the “next big thing”.

The album, Human Frailty – featuring the hits Say Goodbye and Throw Your Arms Around Me, has proven to be one of the most important and enduring records of the eighties.

Vika & Linda are the most-loved vocal duo of their generation – admired and respected by fans and fellow artists, they’ve been singing together their entire lives.

They have enjoyed a remarkable musical journey.

After three classic albums with the Black Sorrows, Vika & Linda released eight on their own.

They’ve sung on number one albums by Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers and John Farnham, done gigs for the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and the King of Tonga, and released their first memoir, No Bull, in 2022, documenting their journey from suburban Melbourne to the top of the charts.

The Waifs

From their inception, The Waifs traversed Australia playing every small town with a local paper, a radio station, a pub or hall that would host live music, and someone willing to listen, of which there were many.

The original independent avant-garde folk heroes turned multiplatinum-selling, multiple ARIA Award-winning, international touring outfit have released eight LPs, self-titled The Waifs (1996), Shelter Me (1998) and Sink or Swim (2000), Up All Night (2003), Sun Dirt Water (2007), Temptation (2011), Beautiful You (2015) and Ironbark (2017).

They’ve also headlined countless festival stages and sold-out tours across the globe, opening for the likes of the legend himself, Bob Dylan.

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