Recording the golden age of Australian live music
Where the bands played, what was on and what charted, from the pub rock years of the 1970s to the 1990s. Told by someone who was there, and written down before it’s lost.
This week in history
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Jim Kelly and Barry Leef recently collaborated on an original album called Who Is Who. These guys go way back to bands like Crossfire, Bakery, and Supermarket. They toured extensively together in Supermarket but this is their first recording together. I was lucky enough to be able to interview them both about this project and found them great storytellers.
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Bands. I live close to this venue and film/photograph here often over the past several years, so when I saw the Red Hot Summer Tour was going to be on…
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I was contacted a little while back by Ian “Piggy” Peel from the Australian Road Crew Association to say that he’d got hold of some recordings from the Yella Rock…
From the mixing desk
In 1985 and 1986 I was the live sound engineer for Bandanna. My work diaries from those years are mostly just a date and a venue, night after night, and they’re where this site started.
Since then I’ve been writing up the bands, the venues and the charts, with help from readers and photographers who were there too. If something here is wrong, or you have a photo, a poster or a memory to add, I’d like to hear from you.
On YouTube
Song stories, countdowns and trivia on the Australian Music History channel.