For those who enjoyed their recent Australian tour in June this year, iconic art rock band 10cc are heading back in July, 2025 to offer us more hits. As Australian Musician said of their 2023 tour, “The band may be a few CC short of the original lineup but nobody in this audience was complaining, they’d heard all of the hits, played authentically by real musicians with passion and virtuosity and you can’t ask for more than that.”
All the hits – live in concert is what you can expect! – “I’m Not In Love” (and those sublime bass lines!), “The Things We Do For Love”, “Rubber Bullets”, “Donna”, “The Wall Street Shuffle”, “Art For Art’s Sake”, “I’m Mandy Fly Me”, “Good Morning Judge”, “Life Is A Minestrone”, and of course the best summer vacation song ever – “Dreadlock Holiday” (come on, sing it now – I Don’t Like Cricket! – tell us that one’s not gonna be stuck in your head for the rest of the day! Over 160 million Spotify plays too). Such an incredible string of great songs.
Graham Gouldman puts the 10cc’s longevity down to the quality and individuality of the band’s songs. “They don’t seem to date. We never followed any trend we simple wrote for our own pleasure. The fact that the songs are being played as often on the radio today as they ever were shows how true that is” he says.
The missing link between The Beatles and the Gorillaz, 10cc ruled the pop world in the 70’s – a time when the charts were dominated by some of the most creative and colourful artists in pop history. 10cc worked not on image or celebrity-status, but on the art of making highly sophisticated rock masterworks into simple-sounding pop hits. The result was some of the greatest pop records of the 20th century.
As American Rolling Stone put it in 1975, ‘There is more going on in one 10cc song than on ten Yes albums.’ And 50 years later, Australian Rolling Stone had this to say – “…the tunes are a delicious sonic challenge. The playing is virtuosic.”
What does 10cc mainstay Graham Gouldman think of the outpouring of love for his band? “Year on year we get busier and busier. It’s great, we love touring and playing together and we get on really well. The audiences these days are very gratifying. You get the people you would expect, who grew up with 10cc, but you also get young kids who know the songs too. Whether they’ve discovered 10cc for themselves, via the internet or radio, or just grown up with their parents playing it in the house, I don’t know. But we get a great mix of people from the generations.”
Gouldman goes on to praise the outstanding musicians featured on stage with him – “The band, as it stands now is absolutely fantastic. Our main strength is the songs, nothing else. This is as near as you’re ever going to get to hearing the perfect 10cc. Hit after hit after hit. It’s relentless. We show no mercy.”
The live band’s line-up is:
Graham Gouldman – bass, guitars, vocals
Rick Fenn – lead guitar, vocals, bass (10cc member since 1976)
Paul Burgess – drums, percussion (10cc drummer for over 50 years!)
Keith Hayman – keyboards, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (member since 2006 and Cliff Richard’s music director)
Iain Hornal – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, keyboards (on stage with 10cc for over 10 years, and also a member of Jeff Lynne’s ELO)
2025 AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
BRISBANE – QPAC – Wednesday July 16
TWIN HEADS – Twin Towns – Thursday July 17 & Friday July 18
CALOUNDRA – The Station – Saturday July 19
TOOWOOMBA – Empire Theatre – Sunday July 20
NEWCASTLE – Civic Theatre – Tuesday July 22
SYDNEY – State Theatre – Friday July 25
THIRROUL – Anita’s Theatre – Saturday July 26
CANBERRA – Playhouse Theatre – Sunday July 27
ALBURY – Albury Entertainment Centre – Monday July 28
CASTLEMAINE – Theatre Royal – Wednesday July 30
GEELONG – The Playhouse – Thursday July 31
MELBOURNE – Palais Theatre – Friday August 1
ADELAIDE – AEC Theatre – Saturday August 2
PERTH – Astor Theatre – Monday August 4
Tickets on sale Wednesday August 21 www.davidroywilliams.com