Bands
More from Jeff White – Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving Pictures and Sharon O’Neill
Here’s another great set of classic Aussie band images from Jeff White. In this article you’ll find Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving pictures and Sharon O’Neill. Enjoy! If you, like Jeff, have some great old snaps of some classic Australian bands then scan them & send them over. We’d love to display them here.…
Read MoreBandanna Desk Tape Found
A few weeks back I had the extreme pleasure of finding a few old cassette tapes in a box in my garage. Amongst the rubbish was a couple of gems including these four songs here. They are from a live desk tape of Bandanna which was recorded around 1989 at, to the best of my…
Read MoreThe Angels – Wyong Leagues – 30th July 2009
I had the pleasure a few years ago of working on an Angels tour. I was the sound engineer for Black Label who were the support band. It was a bit of a spin-out to be working on the same show as The Angels who I first saw in 1978! They were brilliant. The tempos…
Read MoreFree Music from The Zarsoff Brothers
Classic Sydney band The Legendary Zarsoff Brothers are now entering the digital age in a big way. Their latest album, “Mixed Business”, is now available as a digital download. To celebrate they are giving away a free download of one of the songs from the album, “Mull Up”. Izzy is furiously working on digitising their…
Read MoreThe John Rickleman Collection – Little River Band and Richard Clapton
I’ve received quite a bunch of really unique and top quality photo’s recently. Obviously people are digging through their old collections and coming up with some real gems. Here’s another set that you won’t find anywhere else. They were submitted by John Rickleman who has a great eye for a band shot. His collection (unfortunately…
Read MoreWa Wa Nee
I had the distinct pleasure of doing sound for Wa Wa Nee on a short Sydney run of about 4 weeks way back in 1989. They were absolutely brilliant live and just dripped “groove”. At that stage they were probably past their peak popularity but still drew massive live crowds that were genuine fans. Mostly…
Read MoreUncanny X-Men
About Melbourne based pop/rock band from 1981-1987. Re-formed briefly in 1998 History Uncanny X-Men formed in Melbourne as a guitar pop band in 1981 and worked the pub rock circuit. Original line-up included Chuck Hargreaves on guitar, Steve Harrison on bass guitar, Brian Mannix as lead singer, Nick Manthandos on drums and Ron Thiessen on…
Read MoreQED
About QED was a Sydney-based band from 1983 to 1985. History During the same period, late ‘83 to early ‘84, Jenny Morris joined with ex-Air Supply guitarist Rex Goh, and bassist Ian Belton (ex-Dave Dobbyn and Renee Geyer), to form the core of a new band, called QED. The trio were joined in studio by…
Read MoreIcehouse – Flowers
I still remember seeing Flowers at the Stardust Hotel in Cabramatta around 1979. They were brilliant yet their best was still to come. Flowers became Icehouse in 1981 to avoid problems with a Scottish band by the name of The Flowers. The project that became Icehouse was driven essentially by Iva Davies who remains the…
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