{"id":320235,"date":"2025-12-01T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:59:25","slug":"machine-head-to-perform-three-australian-shows-as-three-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320235\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Head to Perform Three Australian Shows as Three-Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/tag\/machine-head\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Head<\/a> are starting the Australian run of their tour tonight, November 29, in Perth. But while so many of us were preparing to shovel shit into our mouths for an entire day, the band\u2019s temporary guitarist  was dealing with a family emergency that not only took him away from the holiday, but it\u2019s also taking him away from joining the band on the first three (out of six) dates of said tour. Machine Head will be performing as a three piece, and frontman Robb Flynn posted about it Wednesday, November 26 to let everyone know.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn posted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMH TO PERFORM AUSSIE SIDE SHOWS AS POWER TRIO. Due to an unfortunate series of events, the guitarist scheduled to perform with them could not attend. However, rather than cancel the Good Things Side Shows, Robb explains how Perth, Sunshine Coast, and Canberra are getting some extremely unique performances starting Saturday at the Astor Theater, and how the boyz have performed several times as a 3-Piece over the years including at their 2022 secret show at Bloodstock festival.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Machine Head brought on the fill-in guitarist because Reece Scruggs, who\u2019s been with the band since last year, had to step back to be with his father during his battle with cancer. The standby they usually hit up, producer and musician Zack Ohren, couldn\u2019t step in because he\u2019s dealing with a health issue. <\/p>\n<p>It sucks how we\u2019re all falling apart, truly.<\/p>\n<p>Machine Head 2026 Australian tour dates:<\/p>\n<p>11\/29 \u2013 Perth, AUS @ Astor Theatre<br \/>12\/01 \u2013 Sunshine Coast @ The Station<br \/>12\/03 \u2013 Canberra, AUS @ UC Refectory<br \/>12\/05 \u2013 Melbourne, AUS @ Good Things Festival<br \/>12\/06  \u2013 Sydney, AUS @ Good Things Festival<br \/>12\/07 \u2013 Brisbane, AUS @ Good Things Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Machine Head are starting the Australian run of their tour tonight, November 29, in Perth. But while so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-320235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}