Australian Music History

Bands

Australian Bands

  • The Valentines

    05 May 2009

    About The Valentines were an Australian rock ‘n’ roll band active from 1966-1970, chiefly noted for their lead singers, Bon Scott, who later went on to great success as lead vocalist with AC/DC, and Vince…

  • Peculiar Clerk

    12 April 2009

    About March 10 1979 to March 09 1984(Thanks to Martin Odgers for putting me onto this info) Peter Keen and Rob Manego went to the same High School in an Outer Western Suburb of Sydney.…

  • New Nobility Band

    12 April 2009

    About Sead Trnka/composer/autor/APRA member/ Profesional musician from 1983y.Sign first records deal 1984y./band; TESKA INDUSTRIJA Work in Germany and Austria with band from 1986 to 1989.Since 1992-1995 he was working in a youth theatre./writing music for…

  • The Stems

    15 February 2009

    History Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated capital city in the world. Because of, or in spite of this, it has produced some of Australia’s most influential bands. Like the Scientists before them, that very…

  • The Lonely Hearts

    03 January 2009

    About the Lonely Hearts Sydney based power pop band 1979-1994 The Lonely Hearts were one of Sydney’s popular power pop bands of the eighties. Originating in Sydney’s outer west in 1979 the band’s popularity was…

  • John “Swanee” Swan

    15 December 2008

    About John Swan John Swan, more commonly known as Swanee, was born John Archibold Dixon Swan in 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland. He came to Australia with his family in 1961 and is the only one…

  • Moving Pictures – Days of Innocence

    09 December 2008

    Moving Pictures is one of my all time favourite bands. I remember seeing them, probably in 1981/82 at the Sylvania Hotel and I was just blown away. It was one of the most memorable nights…

  • Australian Crawl – Boys Light Up

    16 November 2008

    Hi, my name is Helen and occasionally I’ll be presenting a brand new category of “Classic Australian Albums”. To start the ball rolling I’d like to present “Boys Light Up”, the debut album for Australian…

  • Jimmy And The Boys

    27 October 2008

    About Jimmy And The Boys Sydney-based band. 1976-1982 “Outrageous and often obscene shock/horror group led by Ignatious Jones, who pioneered the use of theatrical trappings for Australian bands.” From the Who’s Who of Australian Rock…