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George Sich has a new EP – “True Story, I Swear”

March 5, 2010
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George Sich, an old friend of mine, has just released a brilliant new E.P. entitled “True Story, I Swear”. I’ll admit to being biased ’cause I know George and did his website, but this is a great recording. He is a very talented songwriter/musician and had the help of some other great Australian musicians such [...]

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This month in Australian Music – March

March 1, 2010
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Australian Musicians born in March

15th Mar 1970 – Christine Anu – Born in Cairns, Qld.
20th Mar 1955 – Ian Moss – Cold Chisel, Solo. Born in Alice Springs, NT.
22nd Mar 1946 – Harry Vanda – The Easybeats, Vanda and Young – Born Johannes Hendricus Jacob Vandenberg in The Hague, Netherlands.
29th Mar 1959 – Andrew Farriss [...]

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This month in Australian music – February

February 1, 2010
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Australian Musicians born in February

4th Feb 1975 — Natalie Imbruglia

Australian Musicians passing away in February

14th Feb 2007 – Smoky Dawson – Country music legend whose career lasted more than six decades. He was almost 95.
18th Feb 2010 – Ruby Hunter – Born in 1955, she was 55 years old
19th Feb 1980 – Bon Scott – [...]

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Happy Australia Day!

January 26, 2010
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Happy Australia Day to you all. I’ve never tried an open thread before so I’m not sure how this will work but here we go…
All you need to do is leave a comment below telling us about your favourite Australian Music. That’s it!
It could be about your favourite band, song, concert or whatever you like. [...]

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This month in Australian music – January

January 1, 2010
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Australian Musicians born in January

4th Jan 1947 – Bernard “Doc” Neeson – The Angels. Born in Belfast, Ireland
6th Jan 1953 – Malcolm Young – AC/DC. The seventh of eight children, born to William and Margaret Young in Glasgow, Scotland.
8th Jan 1959 – Paul Hester – Split Enz, Crowded House – Born Paul Newell Hester in [...]

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Bandanna Desk Tape Found

December 27, 2009
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A few weeks back I had the extreme pleasure of finding a few old cassette tapes in a box in my garage. Amongst the rubbish was a couple of gems including these four songs here. They are from a live desk tape of Bandanna which was recorded around 1989 at, to the best of my [...]

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December 19

December 19, 2009
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On this day
Australian musicians who died on December 19th

2007 – Damo Morris – lead singer for The Red Shore, died in a bus crash in New South Wales. The Melbourne based band were touring with American band All Shall Perish when they crashed on the Pacific Highway, outside of Coffs Harbour. One of the bands [...]

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December 9

December 9, 2009
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Australian musicians born on December 9

1958 – Nick Seymour – Crowded House – Born Nicholas More Seymour in Benalla, Victoria

Australian musicians who passed away on December 9

2008 – Les Kaczmerek, founding member and original bass player in Cold Chisel died on this day in Adelaide of liver failure. He was 53 years old.

On this day [...]

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Australian Music History now on Twitter

December 3, 2009
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Hi Folks, you can now follow this site on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ausmusichistory
Twitter has really taken off in a big way and is a great way to keep up to date.
We’ll send out updates, important dates and general news on Australian Music History.
Be sure to follow this site today!

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November 6

November 6, 2009
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Australian musicians born on the 6th of November

1947 – George Young of The Easybeats, Vanda and Young, Flash and the Pan and many others was born George Redburn Young in Glasgow, Scotland.

Number 1 Singles in Australia on November 6

1970 – (They Long To Be) Close To You – The Carpenters
1971 – Banks Of The Ohio [...]

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