Plans Underway For Another Sunbury
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Aztec Music launch (photos by Ros O'Gorman)
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by Paul Cashmere
19 August 2005
Plans are underway to do Sunbury one
more time.
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.
The event on a private farm and attracted 35,000 fans.
Promoter Michael Chugg is planning on resurrecting the festival
with as many of the original bands plus Australia's newer
acts for the Australia Day long weekend for January 2006,
but if they can't pull it together in time, January 2007.
Sunbury took place annually from 1972 to 1975. In 1974, the
event featured its first international band Queen. They were
booed off the stage to screams of "go back to Pommyland,
ya pooftahs".
In the following (and final) year Deep Purple and AC/DC were
scheduled to appear but AC/DC left without performing after
a fight with Deep Purple. Deep Purple's roadies refused to
let AC/DC go on after them which lead producer George Young,
AC/DC roadies and members of the band to break out in a fight
with the Purple entourage.
Another interesting piece of trivia comes from the 1973 event.
The MC was comedian Paul Hogan who later went on to international
fame as Crocodile Dundee.
According to Mileago.com, the line-up for 1972 was:
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Max Merritt and the Meteors
Spectrum
Chain
The Wild Cherries
SCRA
Pirana
Tamam Shud
Company Caine
Friends
Carson
The La De Das
Glenn Cardier
Line-up 1973:
Bakery
Band Of Light
Carson
Coloured Balls
Country Radio
Flying Circus
Friends
Healing Force
MacKenzie Theory
Madder Lake
Max Merritt & The Meteors
Johnny O'Keefe
Sid Rumpo
Matt Taylor
The 69'ers
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Line-up 1974
Skyhooks
The Dingoes
Kush
Buster Brown
Chain
Madder Lake
MacKenzie Theory
Ayers Rock
Ross Ryan
Daddy Cool
Queen (UK)
Line-up 1975
Deep Purple (UK)
AC/DC (did not perform)
Ariel
Ayers Rock
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
Daddy Cool
The Dingoes
Renée Geyer and Sanctuary
The Keystone Angels
La De Das
Kush
Madder Lake
Ross Ryan
Sherbet
Skyhooks
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