AUSSIE ROCKERS ANNOUNCE SECOND TSUNAMI BENEFIT

As well as the likes of Nick Cave, Midnight Oil and Silverchair play rare shows as part of the event...

NICK CAVE , POWDERFINGER, KASEY CHAMBERS, NEIL AND TIM FINN along with Jet are to front the second Australian charity concert in a month to aid victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.

Legendary rockers Midnight Oil are also reforming as a “one-off” for the event, while grunge band Silverchair will play their first show in almost two years at the WAVEAID event at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 29.

The half-day fundraiser follows on from last weekend’s Australia Unites: Reach Out To Asia concert and national telethon on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

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The charity gig, which featured performances from Kasey Chambersand Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns’ side project The Dissociatives, raised around A$20 million (£8 million) for the aid agency World Vision.

“Everyone wants to do their little bit,” said Johns in a statement. “The cricketers play cricket, the TV people do a TV show and the musicians play a gig. The fact that it’s turned out to be such a big gig just shows what an undeniable cause this is.”

As with performances at last year’s ARIA Awards and Australia Unites, [/a] frontman Nic Cester will again perform as part of The Wrights, an Australian supergroup made up from bands such as [a], The Living End and Spiderbait.

Money raised from ticket sales for the benefit, which will be distributed to the Australian Red Cross, Oxfam/ Community Aid Abroad, UNICEF and Care Australia, is expected to be in excess of A$1.5 million (£600,000), with 30,000 going on sale on Monday (January 17).

Tickets are available to purchase from [url=]ticketek.com.au

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