About Mulwala 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 “Mannassas”, with Chris [...]

Click images to enlarge This was Status Quo’s first trek to Australia and New Zealand. It would become a regular trip during the 1970s but on this, their first tour, Quo played as support band to the UK glam rockers ‘Slade’. Quo would return to Australia within the year. The support act was Blackfeather. Jands [...]

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 [...]

Rod Stewart toured Australia, for the first time, in early 1977. His Sydney concert set a new attendance record of 32,000 at the RAS Showground. Sound System FOH Console Jands 24 / 16 / 2 mixer Effects 27 band stereo graphic eq 2 x DBX 160 limiters 2 x Jands. 4-way crossovers Amplifiers 8 x [...]

When Abba toured, in 1977, Jands supplied the sound, lighting and a custom built hydraulic stage that was used to raise and lower a 17 piece Australian orchestra who provided backing for several songs including “Dancing Queen” In a radio interview, after the Melbourne concert, reporter Don McLean said “…a big speaker bank either side [...]

The Welcome To My Nightmare Tour began in Spring of 1975 and continued until 1977 when Alice took the show to Australia and New Zealand. The elaborate travelling stage set included a large gothic looking bed in the center of the stage. There were huge pillars on either side of the bed, which would at [...]