ADELAIDE SHOWS JANUARY 2026
Bringing It All Back Home
‘Smooth as an oil slick, Peter Head, the King of the Cross , knew ‘em all , has seen it all, played with ‘em all and slipped away unscathed for more than a half a century!’ Tex Perkins
Adelaide’s prodigal son, the original Mount Lofty Ranger Peter Head is bringing it all back home for a couple of ultra special shows with an all star band to celebrate his 80th birthday!
TRINITY SESSIONS
Intimate Concert Performance
Fri 23 Jan
SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB
Sun 25 Jan
He’ll also be celebrating the recent launch of his biography Headonism, written with MJ Cornwall (author of To Be Frank: A Fictional Memoir, a life of Australian showbiz legend Frank Thring, and Proby and Me: A Howling Tale Of A Falling Star) which details Peter’s journey from playing piano with Adelaide’s first rock’n’roll band Johnny Mac & The Mac Men aged 15, through his adventures with supergroups Headband and Mount Lofty Rangers, sojourns in London, New York and Sydney’s Kings Cross - as well as stints performing at one time or another with the Rolling Stones, Elton John, the Bee Gees, Bon Scott, John Farnham, Robyn Archer, Keith Moon, Peter Green( founder of Fleetwood Mac), John Mayall, Boz Burrell from King Crimson and Bad Company, Free, Wendy Saddington, Glenn Shorrock, Jeff St John, Lonnie Lee, Jimmy Little and countless others.
Peter brings his beguiling brew of jazzy blues and original songs, drawn from his vast repertoire and albums including In The Key of Night, and New Masters - plus bonus songs from his upcoming tribute album to the master songwriter Randy Newman (Randyman) to these very special Adelaide only shows, featuring old friends and musical compadres Chris Finnen, Ron Kosmider and Mark Meyer in an all star lineup.
Peter was inducted into the S.A. Music Hall of Famealong with Robyn Archer, Headband & the Mount Lofty Rangers in 2016, and currently performs solo, with his Randyman sextet and as resident keys-meister for hot new country funk purveyors Cowboy Simple.
HEADONISM
Peter Head with MJ Cornwall
BUY IT HERE, or at most good bookstores in Australia
THE DEFINITIVE MEMOIR IS HERE!
From his early teens, Peter Head has played 'em all.
Strip joints, rodeos, clubs a glitz and seedy, sideshow alley, off the grid rude boy clubs, sharpie pubs, speedways, remote US bases, ocean-going liners and way more, with John Farnham, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bon Scott, the Bee Gees, Robyn Archer, Wendy Saddington, Jimmy Little, Keith Moon, John Mayall, The Angels, Jeff St John, Cold Chisel and hillsides of others.
Along the way, encounters with larger than lifers from Sydney’s Mr Big Abe Saffron to SA Premier Don Dunstan, on a trip from his first bands in Adelaide, South Australia at the dawn of the 1960s to England of 1968 to the crimehubs of 7Os St. Kilda and Sydney, to north of the Tweed to the Top End and just about all of his native South Australia.
It's a life lived head on, a ride you won't want to end.
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'Most rock stars write a book about their life. Peter writes songs about his life....
the show was good, really good'
Adelaide Fringe Festival review, The Jade, Feb 25th 2022
“If you've ever lived and loved the nightlife, chances are, some stage during your carousing, cruising, boozing and late night losing, you'd have come across Peter Head. His self penned sublime songs and lyrics tell tales tall and true ... Head'snight time netherworld of ivory tickling in smoke filled rooms, singing wayward songs about wayward people, is unique in Australia, our very own musical journeyman; ...always laying down a magical rolling chord, a riff, a poignant lyric, a primal honed voice – frayed at the edges as it is, rasping, growling, crackling and about as soulful as it gets.”
— Vince Lovegrove