An All-Australia all-star line-up leads the 2025 Red Hot Summer Tour return playing eight dates across the country.
The first series of the Red Hot Summer Tour for 2025 has unleashed a very cool class of Australian rock royalty headlined by one of Australia’s most celebrated bands, Icehouse. They are supported by anthem-makers Noiseworks, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Bachelor Girl. These renowned outdoor shows, which continue to sell out year after year, will take place centre stage in Mornington, Coffs Harbour, Southport, Lake Macquarie, Berry, Swan Valley and Wodonga across January, February and March of 2025.
RED HOT SUMMER TOUR DATES 2025
- Saturday 4th January | Mornington Racecourse, Mornington VIC, 18+ show
- Saturday 11th January | Mary Anne Reserve, Manum SA, All ages show
- Saturday 1st February | Park Beach Reserve, Coffs Harbour NSW, 18+ show
- Saturday 8th February | Broadwater Parklands, Southport QLD, 18+ show
- Saturday 15th February | Speers Point Park, Lake Macquarie NSW, 18+ show
- Saturday 22nd February | Berry Showground, Berry NSW, All ages show
- Saturday 22nd March | Sandalford Wines, Swan Valley WA, 18+ show
- Saturday 29th March | Gateway Lakes, Wodonga VIC, All ages show
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The beloved festival which has featured the likes of Jimmy Barnes, Joan Jett, and Paul Kelly in the past is turning to the Great Southern Land to provide the music. With the unofficial anthem of Australia, ‘Great Southern Land’, Icehouse have contributed the the Australian musicscape for 45 years. Formed by Iva Davies, the band’s frontman and musical creative force, Icehouse went on to have an amazing 28 Platinum albums, eight Top 10 albums, over thirty Top 40 singles, and sell the equivalent to over 30 Platinum albums.
Noiseworks provided the soundtrack to every big night in the 1980s, with rock anthems ‘No Lies’, ‘Take Me Back’, ‘Hot Chilli Woman’, ‘Touch’, and countless others. Original band members Jon Stevens, Steve Balbi, and Kevin Nicol will deliver all their legendary hits including those from their 2022 album Evolution whose debut single Heart & Soul became a national radio fan favourite and the Noiseworks Evolution National Tour in 2022/23 sold out from coast-to-coast.
Wolfmother, as led by Andrew Stockdale became global sensations with their psychedelic rock and rock riffs across ‘Joker and the Thief’, ‘Woman’, ‘Mind’s Eye’ and ‘White Unicorn’, all spawning from their debut 2006 self-titled album. It skyrocketed them, securing and delivering showstealing sets at star-studded festivals like Coachella, Isle of Wight, Lollapalooza, Splendour in the Grass, Rock en Seine and Fuji Rock to name a few. They have been invited to share stages with rock icons AC/DC, Guns’n’Roses and for Led Zeppelin’s induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, Wolfmother was personally invited as their guest performers.
Eskimo Joe jump up on the lineup for the Red Hot Summer Tour. One of Australia’s most commercially celebrated rock bands, they made quite the stamp on the scene. With 6 studio albums under their belts and sales in excess of 750,000, in Australia alone, the band has seen 3 of those albums debut at number 1 on the ARIA charts, with juggernaut ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ shining for a monster 62 weeks in the ARIA Chart Top 50 and “Foreign Land”, from their fourth album ‘Inshalla’, bringing home 2 APRA Awards, for Most Played Rock Song on Australian radio and Best Rock Song of 2010.
It has been 30 years since one of Australia’s most revered rock bands, Baby Animals, burst onto the scene with the release of their 8x Platinum, ARIA Award winning, self-titled debut album, featuring iconic hits ‘Rush You’, ‘Early Warning’, ‘Painless’ and ‘One Word’. The band was touring with Van Halen in the US when they heard the album had topped the charts, ‘Baby Animals’ spending six weeks at number one in Australia and keeping Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ out of top spot – that’s no easy feat!
A sibling duo like no other, Ella and Jesse Hooper made Killing Heidi a signature band of the early 2000’s with Reflector now celebrating 25 years. With ‘Mascara’ and ‘Weir’, the album has become embedded in Australian music history, taking out four ARIA awards and reaching four times platinum status. The lifespan of the band has continued, with Ella Hooper also going on to have a wildly successful solo career. Mindblowing to think that she was only 13 when the band began!
The final act on the Red Hot Summer Tour bill is another frontrunner of the 90’s. Tania Doko and James Roche formed Bachelor Girl in 1992, and the duo became one of the most loved Australian acts of the 90s and early 2000s, enjoying Australian and international success in Asia, Scandinavia and the US. Their hit ‘Buses and Trains’ became the most played composition on Australian radio in its first year of release and during the past 25 years. It will be a massive moment during their 2025 set!
Presale through Ticketmaster and Red Hot Summer tour goes live on Wednesday 18 September 9.00am running until Thursday 19 September 9.00am local time. Following that time, tickets will go live for general public at 10am local time, on Thursday 19 September.
Tickets for the huge Red Hot Summer Tour can be picked up here.
