Sunbury Music Festivals – 50th anniversary

On a January long weekend in 1972, 50 years ago, young people (predominantly) trekked from all over Australia to a valley with a creek running through it just outside Diggers Rest, near Sunbury, Victoria, to spend three days in the blistering sun listening to live music. Although it was conceived by investors and promotors as Australia’s answer to Woodstock, the Sunbury Pop Festival (later rock festival) was much more Antipodean in it’s flavour: more sunshine and less mud,  more booze and mullets and fewer hippies.  In fact that first Festival in 1972 is generally seen to have ushered in the primacy of Australian pub rock. In honour of this anniversary, on this week’s show Marty and Venetia play tracks from acts that performed at one of the Sunbury festivals from 1072 – 1975. Yeah, mate…

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Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen benchtops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we'll have a 70's theme that we'll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one-hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we're here to make sure that music is shared and never lost. NOTE: Due to music licencing requirements this podcast is unavailable outside of Australia.