INXS Day is Aug 16th
Forty-five years ago on August 16, 1977, The Farriss Brothers, a band that would soon be renamed INXS, played their debut gig at a house party in Whale Beach, Sydney. Since that day, INXS has sold over 70 million albums worldwide, making them one of Australia’s biggest-selling music acts of all time.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, August 16th will be worldwide INXS Day. The group, in association with Petrol Records, Universal Music Group, and Rhino Records, will announce some exceptional releases and activities to tie in.
INXS Day will launch with an exclusive hour-long TikTok livestream celebrating the 35th anniversary of their masterpiece album Kick with a track-by-track feature, interviews with the band and their executive music producer Giles Martin. The livestream will be shown worldwide at the following local times on August 16th with the US stream scheduled for 5 pm ET/2 pm PT.
INXS will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of their global breakthrough album Shabooh Shoobah in October with a deluxe digital box set featuring 15 songs on streaming services for the first time, along with two special vinyl releases. Shabooh Shoobah will be issued as a limited edition 140-gram clear vinyl edition exclusively via INXS.com, along with a vintage Shabooh Shoobah t-shirt.
On October 28th, Petrol Records/UMe will release INXS Recorded Live At The US Festival 1983, featuring a previously unreleased concert on CD and 180-gram vinyl LP. The set features nine of the ten tracks that appear on Shabooh Shoobah.
INXS Day will also see the announcement of INXS’s The Very Best mixed in Dolby Atmos by Giles Martin. The 20-song compilation features hits such as “What You Need,” “Original Sin,” “Baby Don’t Cry,” and “Bitter Tears,” recently celebrated 500 weeks in the Australian Top 100 ARIA charts and has been awarded Diamond status.
“What Giles has done is to not only recreate the original mixes but now you’re blown away because you hear all this stuff that you just didn’t hear before,” guitarist Tim Farriss says.
“Nowadays, we hear music too much we don’t listen to it enough,” Martin adds. “think the great thing about Atmos is it makes people listen in a different way and it will be new again, and let’s face it INXS are an amazing band.”
If that weren’t enough, throughout August, INXS will also celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1992 album Welcome To Wherever You Are with five videos; “Heaven Sent” (directed by long-time INXS collaborator Richard Lowenstein), “Baby Don’t Cry,” the controversial “Taste It” directed by Baillie Walsh (Flashback Of A Fool starring Daniel Craig and Abba Voyage), “Beautiful Girl” directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road & The Mothman Prophecies) & “Not Enough Time” all being upgraded to HD for the first time.
