Bands

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Bandanna Desk Tape Found

by Mark Gibson December 27, 2009

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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The Angels – Wyong Leagues – 30th July 2009

by Mark Gibson November 2, 2009

I had the pleasure a few months ago of working on an Angels tour. I was the sound engineer for Black Label who were the support. It’s a bit of a spin out to be working on the same show as The Angels who I first saw in 1978!  They were brilliant. The tempos were [...]

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Free Music from The Zarsoff Brothers

by Mark Gibson August 31, 2009

Classic Sydney band The Legendary Zarsoff Brothers are now entering the digital age in a big way. Their latest album, “Mixed Business”, is now available as a digital download. To celebrate they are giving away a free download of one of the songs from the album, “Mull Up”. Izzy is furiously working on digitising their [...]

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The John Rickleman Collection – Little River Band and Richard Clapton

by Mark Gibson July 16, 2009

I’ve received quite a bunch of really unique and top quality photo’s recently. Obviously people are digging through their old collections and coming up with some real gems. Here’s another set that you won’t find anywhere else. They were submitted by John Rickleman who has a great eye for a band shot. His collection (unfortunately [...]

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Wa Wa Nee

by Mark Gibson June 29, 2009

I had the distinct pleasure of doing sound for Wa Wa Nee on a short Sydney run of about 4 weeks way back in 1989. They were absolutely brilliant live and just dripped “groove”. At that stage they were probably past their peak popularity but still drew massive live crowds that were genuine fans. Mostly [...]

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Uncanny X-Men

by Mark Gibson June 15, 2009

About Melbourne based pop/rock band from 1981-1987. Re-formed briefly in 1998 History Uncanny X-Men formed in Melbourne as a guitar pop band in 1981 and worked the pub rock circuit. Original line-up included Chuck Hargreaves on guitar, Steve Harrison on bass guitar, Brian Mannix as lead singer, Nick Manthandos on drums and Ron Thiessen on [...]

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QED

by Mark Gibson May 26, 2009

About Sydney based band from 1983 to 1985 History During the same period, late ‘83 to early ‘84, Jenny Morris joined with ex-Air Supply guitarist Rex Goh, and bassist Ian Belton (ex-Dave Dobbyn and Renee Geyer), to form the core of a new band, called QED. The trio were joined in studio by various session [...]

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Icehouse – Flowers

by Mark Gibson May 19, 2009

I still remember seeing Flowers at the Stardust Hotel in Cabramatta around 1979. They were brilliant yet their best was still to come. Flowers became Icehouse in 1981 to avoid problems with a Scottish band by the name of The Flowers. The project that became Icehouse was driven essentially by Iva Davies who remains the [...]

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The Valentines

by Mark Gibson May 5, 2009

About The Valentines were an Australian rock ‘n’ roll band active from 1966-1970, chiefly noted for their lead singers, Bon Scott, who later went on to great success as lead vocalist with AC/DC, and Vince Lovegrove, who subsequently became a successful music journalist and manager of Divinyls. The band was formed in late 1966 with [...]

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Peculiar Clerk

by Mark Gibson April 12, 2009

About March 10 1979 to March 09 1984 (Thanks to Martin Odgers for putting me onto this info) Peter Keen and Rob Manego went to the same High School in an Outer Western Suburb of Sydney. With a couple of schoolmates, they set about forming a band. A number of members came and went before [...]

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