XMAS CHEER Newcastle punk band Trophy Eyes will donate $20,108 towards bush fire relief after selling out their charity show at the Cambridge Hotel last Sunday. Half will be donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service, while the rest will assist the band's friend and former Newcastle musician Sam Fenning, who lost his family home last month when bush fire ripped through Nymboida on the NSW mid-north coast.
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COUNTDOWN If you're a Triple J listener no doubt you've been compiling lists for your favourite songs of 2019. Well, the Cambridge Hotel haven't booked the likely Hottest 100 winner - both Billie Eilish and Tones and I are busy - but the music pub has delivered a quality line-up to celebrate the national countdown on January 25. Brisbane's Last Dinosaurs and Melbourne's Slowly Slowly will headline the mini-festival, which also includes Newcastle's best Hottest 100 hope Eat Your Heart Out, plus Stumps, Resident, Walken, NTL Landmarks and more.
FIRST CRACK Italian-Australian comedy threesome Sooshi Mango have been entertaining the capital cities this year with their show Fifty Shades Of Ethnic, and it's Newcastle's turn soon. The show, which features popular characters like Ethnic Mums and Dads, will deliver its maiden performance at the Civic Theatre on March 21.
LAUGH A LOT Fans of the legendary comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail will be excited that Monty Python's SPAMALOT is coming to Wyong's The Art House. SPAMALOT is a musical based on the 1975 film which follows King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The Art House hosts SPAMALOT from March 26 to 28.
