The Red Hot Summer Tour arrives in Bendigo on March 26 and sees Noiseworks join an impressive Aussie rock line-up that also features Jimmy Barnes, The Angels, The Badloves and Mark Seymour and the Undertow.

Balbi said as well as including a great line up, the tour has a really friendly and really cool vibe.

“”It’s a very wonderful, festive afternoon as you expect in summer time,” he said.

“No matter where it is, the venues are very unique and wonderful. We turn up to the gig and see a bunch of old mates and that's what the atmosphere is like.”

Balbi said the relationships between the bands go back many years.

“The first tour Noiseworks ever did was with The Angels and the second national tour was with Jimmy Barnes. It was when we first started in 1983,” he said.

“Over the years we have done a lot of shows together, we’re very good mates.

“I didn’t think personally that we would make it past the 1990s but here we are.”

As well as hearing Noiseworks classics such as Tough, No Lies and Hot Chilli Woman, the band is excited to be playing new tracks from their upcoming album.

“We are playing hits but it is exciting to play a bunch of new material and even more so given the songs are going down pretty well,” Balbi said.

“People are really enjoying new material. We’re not really road testing it because the album is made. It’s nice to feel like we still have got something to contribute that is fresh.”

The album is likely to be released in the second half of the year and will be the first studio album since 1991’s Love Versus Mercy.

“I haven’t counted the years (since the last album) but it has been a while,” Balbi said.

“It hasn’t been easy because we have been all over the place doing different things.

“But it is great when we all end up together playing this material. There is something about the chemistry of the line up that seems to work.

“The album was made over a long period of time, when we could. It wasn’t like our other records where we sit in the studio for three months. It was done incrementally and we produced it as we went along.”

Balbi said the Bendigo show would be the first time Noiseworks had been in town for about two decades.

“This tour came at a good time of the year and we had enough lead up time to say ‘can do, want to do’.”

The Red Hot Summer Tour is on Saturday, March 26, at the Bendigo Jockey Club.

For tickets contact Ticketmaster or The Capital box office on 5434 6100.