IMC Agency Australia

#DoYouRemember ... Today marking & honouring the 30th anniversary of the southern hemisphere's biggest ever travelling festival, the #BigDayOut starting on this day way back in 1992 - & more than a lifetime of memories revisited having had the honour of working side by side for & with the BDO team throughout. For your visual memory, swipe for a reminder of an exhaustive list of bands, including many now global mega acts launching their careers down-under courtesy of the BDO and associated sideshows each year since 1992 such as #Coldplay, #FooFighters, #Muse, #TheProdigy, #Chemical Brothers #BlackEyedPeas alongside of legendary luminaries including #JoeStrummer, #Kraftwerk; #JohnCooperClarke, #BillyBragg, #NickCave, #IggyPop, #SonicYouth and the list goes on (& on & on!). For more of an in depth insight - and a behind (& in front of) the scenes personal memoir, check out #ThanksForTheMemories Ken & Viv! 👏👏

With a brand spanking’ new tune ‘Sayonara’ just unveiled, 12 long years after they last graced the stage, @wearesheppard return to @deniutemuster happening 2nd & 3rd October alongside a huge lineup! Full details via niutemuster.com.au

The Nirvana Tour is on sale now. QLD & NSW, our first-ever regional run in Australia starts here. Link in bio for all dates and tickets.

#WhatTheWorldNeedsNow starring @pnaupnau with @thewarningrockband Repost from @pnaupnau 'Tu Corazón' our new single featuring @thewarningrockband is now yours ❤️🪩 Check out the music video filmed in stunning Monterrey, MX live on our YouTube 🇲🇽 #pnau #thewarning 🎥: @groovychaos

#ReasonsToBeCheerful PT 1 ... Hello #Adelaide! Been a long (long) time! We're heading back to play @beerandbbqfest Fri July 10th alongside of a stacked lineup .. and at the same venue we last played more than 3 decades ago! Presale happens now with Onsale Thursday 11am sharp. Link in Bio Who's coming!

#SharingIsCaring! It is absolutely ridiculous & disturbing that the Govt of Queensland ( ie - this autocrat 👉 @david_crisafulli ) can now impose draconian authoritarian laws censoring & silencing art as a form of expression protesting war alongside of its heinous regime inflicted gross injustices to humanity - especially ‘drawing’ attention to those accused of genocide & ethnic cleansing! From the canvas to those that see, all art forms will be free! REPOST via @nordacious A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.

Soon to be slaying major stages across the USA, Wolfmother starting the party(s) again commencing this Sun March 29th at @lovethegov Adelaide with guests @stiff_necks . Tix via @oztix . Then the biggest party next Tues March 31st celebrating 50 years of @wsl at the @ripcurl Pro Bells Beach VIC after concert starting 4pm. Swipe for full details!

You should never speak with your heroes, they say… yet here we are, sending a message into the ether asking Simon Day for the five albums he can’t live without. He did not disappoint. For a certain generation, Ratcat were/are. A. Very. Big. Deal. @ratcatofficial were on top of the world — and the charts — at the turn of the ‘90s. With that irresistible soft/loud alchemy of garage rock grit and sugar-rush melody, the Sydney trio didn’t just arrive, they detonated. The Tingles EP hit number one in 1990, powered by ‘That Ain’t Bad’, a song that felt like it had always existed — all jangle, fuzz, and teenage electricity — somehow both scrappy and undeniable. And then came Blind Love in June 1991. A record so big it didn’t just top the charts — it held them hostage. Simultaneous number one album and single. Outselling releases from Michael Jackson, INXS, Crowded House, Lenny Kravitz, Bette Midler… the lot of them. And just to twist the knife in the side of typical pop music — the Tingles EP from the year before finished 1991 at number two on the singles chart, second only to Bryan Adams’ ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’. Let that sink in. This wasn’t just a moment — it was a takeover. Their influence spreads wide — @richardkingsmill himself has pointed to them as a key spark, arguably more so than Nirvana, in shifting what Australian radio sounded like in the early ‘90s. And as a small, almost poetic full-circle moment: Simon’s influence doesn’t just live in the past. In more recent years, he co-wrote with @isabellamanfredi for @thepreatures — a band that carried that same sharp, melodic instinct into a new era. @janegazzo named her 2022 compilation (and our Nov 2023 ROTM) Blind Love and placed Ratcat’s ‘That Ain’t Bad’ at track one, side one. Exactly where it belongs. And in this very column? @benleemusic once named Tingles as one he couldn’t live without. The line runs both ways. Influence in. Influence out. This is Simon Day’s Forever Five. A special one for us — go on, click through, read the full piece, and sink into the playlist. (We’re not crying, you are.) #waxxlyricalforeverfive #albumsstillmatter #simonday #ratcat

Just announced … @pnaupnau returning home to perform an exclusive DJ set for @dylanalcott ’s all time @abilityfest along side of a stacked lineup happening Sat Apr 11 at @the_timberyard #Melbourne! Presale Feb 25th and GO on sale Feb 16th at midday. Swipe for #SoundAndVision including @pnaupnau new music teaser revealed in full Friday Feb 20! #Embrace 💫

BTW … Did we tell you? ‘Don’t Go Now’ (co-written with Hummingbirds’ Robyn St Clare all those years ago) returns on screens across Australia as the opening theme track courtesy of the fantastic new @abciview TV series ‘Dog Park’ starring Leon Ford, @celia_pacquola , Elizabeth Alexander, Grace Chow, @rasamuel_ , Florence Gladwin, Brooke Satchell and more amongst a huge cast! Watch via ABC TV every Sunday at 8.30pm and @abciview Swipe for more #SoundAndVision!

Sorry @harrystyles but #SizeDoesMatter! @cut_copy bringing back the #LightsAndMusic to #Sydney for one show only at @enmore_theatre with guests @harveysutherland & @drifting__clouds ! See you there! 💫