Sunbury 1975

The Sunbury music festival was Australia’s answer to Woodstock in the early 70s. It was first held on the Australia day long weekend of 1972 in Sunbury, about 35 kilometres north-east of Melbourne on the Calder Highway.

Sunbury took place annually from 1972 to 1975. In 1975 Deep Purple headlined and brought a Tycobrahe sound system with them and this was stacked inside the Jands system.

The Tycobrahe system was made up of integrated three-way cabinets that included 2 JBL 2220A’s, a 2482 driver with midrange horn and 2 075 tweeters. The integrated approach was the way of the future but it was many years before the idea was successfully implemented.