This month in Australian music – June

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Australian Musicians born in June 2nd Jun 1968 – Merril Bainbridge. Born in Melbourne, Victoria 4th Jun 1976 – Kasey Chambers 10th Jun 1949 – Martin Armiger – The Sports. Born John Martin Armiger in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 13th Jun 1949 – Red Symons – Skyhooks. Born Redmond Symons in Brighton, England. 15th Jun 1949 [...]

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Australian Singles Chart for 1990

by Mark Gibson June 15, 2013

These are the songs that Australians were listening to in 1990. Here is the end of year singles chart based on sales. Top Australian Singles “Mona” – Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 “I Need Your Body” – Tina Arena “Crying in the Chapel” – Peter Blakeley “Lay Down Your Guns” – Jimmy Barnes “Show No [...]

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Cold Chisel – The Early Years

by Mark Gibson June 1, 2013

Cold Chisel are one of the most important bands of the seventies and eighties pub rock scene. They dominated the charts and venues all over the Country from the time they hit the charts in 1978 till their triumphant finale, the Last Stand Tour. I had the absolute pleasure of seeing them multiple times in [...]

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Chris Bailey has passed away

by Mark Gibson April 4, 2013

News has come through this morning that Chris Bailey has lost his battle with cancer and passed away peacefully last night. I first met Chris in the early 1990′s when I had the pleasure of doing a couple of short tours with GANGgajang. Not only was he a brilliant musician but he was regarded as [...]

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The Lost Husky

by Chris Newton March 9, 2013

The Lost Husky began in 1998 as a solo acoustic side-project for Chris Newton, the bass player for 1990s Sydney alternative rock bands Psyclone Smyle, Tooth and User. It started out as a country-infused folk act, honed at open mic nights, pubs and local cafes in his hometown of Balmain, and Sydney’s inner west, as [...]

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Aussie Music Trivia Is Back!

by Mark Gibson March 2, 2013

The Trivia section of this site was one of the most popular by far but after some issues with the software we had to abandon it. Over the past few weeks it has been reconstructed at the Australian Music Database site and it’s back bigger and better. How is it bigger and better? Now that [...]

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Rick Doolan – twenty years passed.

by Mark Gibson February 20, 2013

Editors note: This article was first published in Connections magazine in 1993. As the 20th anniversary of Rick’s death approached I contacted Julius Grafton, the author and publisher of Connections (now CX), and he graciously allowed me to reproduce it again here. Rick was a close friend of mine and I’d like to personally thank [...]

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Australian Singles Chart for 1988

by Mark Gibson February 12, 2013

These are the songs that Australians were listening to in 1988. Here is the end of year singles chart based on sales. Top Australian Singles “I Should Be So Lucky” – Kylie Minogue “Age of Reason” – John Farnham “Better Be Home Soon” – Crowded House “Got to Be Certain” – Kylie Minogue “Wanna Be [...]

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The Balmain Sound – Indie Rock from the Balmain Peninsula

by Chris Newton January 29, 2013

Here’s a little piece about the Balmain indie-rock scene I grew up in. Originally published, in part, in a small article in the local Balmain paper Village Voice in 2006/2007. By the late 1970s, Balmain (in Sydney’s inner west) had already been through a sea-change of sorts with the influx of a younger, politically left-leaning [...]

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little BIG Rigs PA & Lighting Hire

by Greg Morris January 3, 2013

A short history on Mark Laidler and little BIG Rigs PA & Lighting Hire After leaving The Undecided? in late 1984 where he had already built his first PA that the band was using, a friend asked if he still had the PA and would he hire it to his band. Mark’s first gig was on the 12th January 1985 [...]

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Aussie Musicians Passing in 2012

by Mark Gibson December 28, 2012

The Roll Of Honour for 2012 is a distinguished one indeed. It includes many great Australian musicians that had careers that spanned decades. This year we lost musicians who figured in such notable bands as the Divinyls, Sherbet, The Joy Boys, Zoot and Men at Work to name a few. Please let me know in [...]

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