Australian Music History

Concerts and Events

Festivals, tours and big nights, from Narara to the Hordern Pavilion.

  • Red Hot Summer Tour. Sun 26/3/2023. Bella Vista Farm.

    27 October 2023

    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 the 26th, I asked Duane…

  • The Zarsoff Brothers Live At Yella Rock 1991

    06 January 2023

    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 Concert in 1991. Luckily, some…

  • Jimmy Barnes & Diesel – Hordern Pavilion 5th of October 2019

    28 October 2019

    Jimmy Barnes – Official has announced his biggest headlining tour of this century – Shutting Down Your Town – playing all his classic hits plus highlights from his acclaimed new album My Criminal Record (out…

  • Exhumed 2014 Band Competition

    19 October 2014

    A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to attend a function that, until recently, had never heard of. Sydney ABC’s radio presenter James Valentine, formerly of The Models, is the mastermind of this competition…

  • David Barsley’s Narara 1983 Photo’s

    24 January 2012

    The Narara 1983 and Narara 1984 concerts have been the subject some of the most popular articles ever published on this site. The amount of incredibly valuable comments speak for themselves. Every now & then…

  • 2SM Concert of the Decade 1979

    27 July 2011

    If you grew up as a teenager in Sydney in the late 1970’s as I did, you listened to 2SM. They were THE station to listen to for all the latest rock & pop. They…

  • Harvey James Concert

    06 March 2011

    Gimme That Guitar was a benefit concert held for the late Harvey James at Enmore Theatre on Thursday the 17th of February, 2011. I had the (sad) pleasure of attending the show and it was…

  • Kevin Borich’s Party Boys – NYE 2010

    13 February 2011

    The Party Boys have been a concept that has always provided audiences with an opportunity to see fantastic musicians having a bit of fun. The latest incarnation is no exception. I hade the pleasure of…

  • The Boys Are Back In Town Show – June 1999

    06 January 2011

    The Boys Are Back In Town Show was a concert that was the brainchild of long-time Sydney promoters, Rock Circuit Promotions (RCP), and featured some of the great pub-rock bands of the 1980’s Sydney scene.…