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Latest NewsPEARL HQ is an industry-leading booking agency, news and media platform based in Melbourne and on the Mornington Peninsula. For over 25 years we've serviced venues, major festivals, touring shows and local artists, booking more than 10,000 gigs in the last decade alone — connecting the right acts with the right stages across the region and beyond.
New superannuation rules are hitting venue bookers hard, turning a simple band booking into a paperwork marathon. Pearl HQ has built a practical, local solution for venues already drowning in sole trader musician admin.
Support Act's annual AusMusic T-Shirt Day is back for 2026, with 18 limited-edition tees from some of Australia's most beloved artists raising funds for musicians and crew in crisis. Every dollar spent goes directly to the people who keep live music alive.
Five seasoned Australian rock musicians pool their collective firepower for a free Sunday show at Mornington's iconic Royal Hotel. SLAM Classic Rock show is the kind of session that turns a quiet Winter Sunday into a monster and talk of the town on Monday.
Australian punk institution 28 Days are heading back to where it all started, with a hometown show at Frankston's Pier Bandroom as part of their sprawling 30th anniversary Part 2 tour. Three decades in and the mosh pits are still calling.
Foo Fighters return to Australia and New Zealand for their Take Cover Tour this November and into January 2027, touring behind new album Your Favorite Toy, with 16 rising local acts hand-picked to open across nine stadium shows.
The Red Hot Summer Tour rolls into Mornington Racecourse on Sunday 8 November with a stacked all-Australian bill led by Australian Crawl and Men At Work, and the Peninsula date is already sold out.
From 1 July, employers must pay super at the same time as wages — not quarterly. For venues, booking agents and the musicians they hire, Payday Super reshapes the paperwork behind every gig.
A craft drinks tour on a festival scale: the Peninsula VineHop Festival hops across seven Mornington Peninsula venues on Saturday 21 November, with 30-plus local producers, live music, DJs and food trucks.
Australia's INXS tribute show INXSIVE lands at the Seaford Hotel on Saturday 10 October, celebrating one of the country's greatest ever rock bands. Presale tickets $30, doors from 8pm.
One of Australia's most dynamic blues and rock guitarists winds up the Pier Front Bar's winter Sunday Sessions, with Phil Para bringing his Hendrix-schooled fretwork to Frankston on Sunday 2 August. Free entry, 4–7pm.
Australia's longest-running blues festival returns to Echuca–Moama from 23–26 July, and a stacked second artist announcement loads the free four-day program with legends and newcomers, from Jeff Lang and Dom Turner's new trio to 14-year-old guitar prodigy LilG.
The Hoodoo Men roll into Rye's Verve Bar for a free afternoon of live blues Sunday, 26 July. Grab a cold drink and settle in for three hours of the good stuff.
One of Australia's best live rock bands of the '90s rolls into Boneo, with Chocolate Starfish playing the Peninsula Beer Garden's Velvet Lounge on Sunday 28 June, a Sunday afternoon of hits from 'You're So Vain' to 'Four Letter Word'.
