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Icehouse

Australian rock band previously known as “Flowers”

Formed in 1977

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Sat Jun 5 Broadmeadow, Australia · Newcastle Entertainment Centre Tickets
Sat Jun 12 Brisbane, Australia · Brisbane Entertainment Centre Tickets
Sat Jun 19 Sydney, Australia · TikTok Entertainment Centre Tickets
Sat Jun 26 Melbourne, Australia · Margaret Court Arena Tickets
Sat Jul 3 Hindmarsh, Australia · Adelaide Entertainment Centre Tickets
Sat Jul 10 Perth, Australia · RAC Arena Tickets
Sat Jul 31 Glenorchy, Australia · MyState Bank arena Tickets
Sat Aug 7 Melbourne, Australia · Margaret Court Arena Tickets
Sat Aug 14 Sydney, Australia · TikTok Entertainment Centre Tickets

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Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1977 as Flowers. Initially known in their homeland for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synth-pop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name "Icehouse", adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.

Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesisers, particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best-known singles on the Australian charts include "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession", their Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).

Icehouse were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..." Icehouse has produced eight top-ten albums and twenty top-forty singles in Australia, multiple top-ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28 times platinum in Australasia alone.

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Also in Français

Icehouse est un groupe new wave australien créé en 1981, composé initialement d'Iva Davies, Robert Kretschmer, Simon Lloyd, Stephen Morgan et Paul Wheeler. L'année précédente, ils avaient, sous le nom de Flowers, sorti un album qui s'intitulait Icehouse, nom qu'ils choisirent finalement comme titre de leur formation. Le groupe se fit ensuite connaître durant les années 1980, notamment avec leurs titres et succès Hey Little Girl, No Promises ou encore Crazy.

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