Party: Diesel

Party: Diesel

Diesel is a veteran in the Australian Music industry, having been around for over 30 years now!

In that time he has sold over 800,000 records and has had multiple Top 10 and Number 1 Albums and Singles on the ARIA Charts, with his highest selling album hitting 280,000 in sales!

Diesel has also won 9 music awards and ARIA Best Male Artist 1992, 1993 and 1995.

Great news people! We’ve had an awesome response to the initial announce of Diesel’s ‘Pieces Of Americana’ tour that is serving as an introduction to his upcoming album by the same name to be released mid 2016. So much so, that further dates have been added to the initial run.

These dates will see Diesel heading to regional areas of the country in SOLO mode giving fans the opportunity to hear the tracks raw the way he first approached them but with the added experience of having just recorded “Americana” .

The story behind this upcoming album……

There’s a concept brewing over at Diesel HQ … an album on which Mark Lizotte, known far and wide as Diesel, will pause to look back on the path that led him to today: eight studio albums, six ARIA Awards, one of our nation’s most lauded and accomplished rock guitarists and singers.

And appropriately, for an artist born in America and raised in Australia, the concept is: Americana. Diesel will be paying tribute to the artists that influenced his own musical stew on a new album – and on tour – by putting his unique stamp on some classic songs.

“It’s such a broad term, Americana – it means different things to different people,” Diesel says. “From moving out here from America, then moving back and forth again … I wonder if I would have as much fascination and love for American music if I had just stayed in America all my life and never made it out to Australia? It’s safe to say I probably wouldn’t.”

The music may be American, but Diesel will approach it the only way he knows how … “It’s very Australian what I’m doing,” he says. “That mongrel thing, taking music - whether it’s from England or America - then crossing things over. We’re not scared of mixing things up here and breaking the rules. Never have been.”

The selection process has been torturous – “It’s really hard ’cos it’s such a deep well; how far back do you go? I literally went: OK, I’ve got five minutes, grab the most essential things out of your house before the house burns down!’” – yet also fearless. Witness Diesel’s thought process on daring to tackle Born to Run by The Boss, Bruce Springsteen:

“It’s like someone saying, ‘I’m going to rewrite the bible’,” he laughs. “You just don’t touch it! But I thought, if I’m gonna make an Americana album, I may as well get in the ring with Muhammad Ali – the featherweight’s gonna take on the heavyweight and we’ll see what happens. So, if Born to Run is a stranger, I’m going to go right up to that stranger on the street and kiss ’em on the lips. That’s it.”

So now, a quarter-century after he busted out of the garage and into the Australian psyche with Don’t Need Love and Soul Revival, it’s time for fans to hear the songs that made the man. With recording underway, Diesel will be taking his concept out on the road February/March 2016, infusing his Americana selections into his live set before releasing the album mid 2016.


Friday 8th April 2016

Tickets $35 Member // $40 Non Member - 18+

Doors open at 7:30am for an 8pm start

In the mean time check out www.dieselmusic.com.au