The Rock Isle Mulwala Festival was held over the Easter weekend (31 March – 2 April 1972) and featured local bands including: Russell Morris, Lobby Loyde, Leo De Castro and Friends, Country Radio, Chain, Carson, Taman Shud and The Aztecs. The festival also featured, Canned Heat and Steven Stills band Manassas, with Chris Hilman. Sound [...]

This was Led Zeppelin’s only Australian tour. Portions of the Sydney Showground concert were filmed for GTK and appears in the “Down Under” segment of the Led Zeppelin DVD released in 2003. The Sun-Herald, 5 March 1972, p109 David D. Bryant The Led Zeppelin concert at the showgrounds last Sunday must rate as one of [...]

The Sunbury Rock Festival was first held in 1972 on a 620 acre farm between Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria. It attracted around 35,000 people and was promoted by Odessa Promotions, which was formed by a group of television professionals, including John Fowler and Jim McKay, from GTV 9 Melbourne. The festival ran from 29 [...]

“For the second time within a year the Bee Gees played to capacity houses throughout their Australian tour. Originally only one concert in Melbourne and Brisbane was planned but because both were sold out on the first day of bookings, promoter Paul Dainty decided to include extra concerts in both cities. An amazing effort when [...]

About Alpine Sound In the early 70′s cigarette company Alpine sponsored a series of outdoor concerts at various venues in and around Sydney. The photographs show the FOH mixer which was the first large mixer designed and built by Jands and one of the beach concerts at Manly. Note the blue 6 channel sub-mixer alongside. [...]