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More from Jeff White – Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving Pictures and Sharon O’Neill

January 10, 2010
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Here’s another great set of classic Aussie band images from Jeff White.
In this article you’ll find Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving pictures and Sharon O’Neill. Enjoy!
If you, like Jeff, have some great old snaps of some classic Australian bands then scan them & send them over. We’d love to display them here.
Cold Chisel
Men At [...]

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Moving Pictures – Days of Innocence

December 9, 2008
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Moving Pictures is one of my all time favourite bands. I remember seeing them, probably in 1981/82 at the Sylvania Hotel and I was just blown away. It was one of the most memorable nights of my young life, I was 19/20. Of course after seeing them live I just had to buy their debut [...]

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Men At Work

September 8, 2008

About
Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to reach the Number 1 position in album and singles charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom with Business as Usual and “Down Under” respectively.[1] The group won the 1983 [...]

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Mad Gorilla

September 2, 2008
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About Mad Gorilla
** Updated **
Sydney based Theatrical Rock band of the 1980’s. Well known for their “Graveyard Show”.
History

1978-1985.
The core of the band still play together as Creedence and Beyond.

Update: Here is a live video of Mad Gorilla playing at the Manly Hotel in 1983.

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Matt Finish

September 24, 2007
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Sydney based band 1978-present. Formed in 1978 by Matt Moffitt and John Prior

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Mandrake

August 21, 2007

Sydney based rock band. Mandrake consists of brothers Conrad & George Passas on guitars & vocals, and Harry on the Drums

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Moving Pictures

February 14, 2007
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About
Sydney-based rock/pop group of the 1980’s
The group was comprised of Alex Smith (vocals), Garry Frost (guitar), Andrew Thompson (saxophone), Charlie Cole (keyboards), Ian Lees (bass) and Paul Freeland (drums).
The band had several hit singles and albums in their native Australia, including the single “What About Me”, which remained at number one for two months [...]

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The Wombat Switch – Mad Gorilla

October 7, 2005

The Wombat Switch.
I don’t even know if it is a term that is still used. Back about 20 years ago “Wombatting” was something you did to the support band to sabotage them. You know, turn the amps down a bit or pull down the master volume on the EQ or something. Sometimes it was because [...]

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